What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Engineer position at Parker Hannifin?
Org Marketing Statement
Parker Hannifin – Parflex Division
When you join Parker Hannifin’s Parflex Division, you're not just working on hoses and tubing — you're helping power the systems behind some of the most important vehicles, machines, and technologies in the world. From under the hood of U.S. military trucks like the JLTV and HEMTT, to inside the wings of the F-35 fighter jet and C-130 Hercules, our thermoplastic and fluoropolymer hose products are trusted in the world’s most demanding applications.
You’ll also find Parker Parflex products supporting wind farms, solar fields, food production plants, and next-generation hydrogen vehicles. Whether it’s helping to land a Black Hawk helicopter safely or making sure air brake systems on semi-trucks perform in any weather, our team builds solutions that keep America moving, protected, and growing.
Parflex is part of Parker’s Fluid Connectors Group, a global leader in motion and control technologies for over 100 years. At our facility, we focus on innovation, safety, and purpose-driven work. We offer stability, great benefits, and the satisfaction of building parts that truly make a difference.
Position Summary
Position Summary:
Achieving company cost and customer service objectives by ensuring timely and efficient completion of design responsibilities for a product. Primary focus on design and manufacturing thermoplastic hose, tubing and fittings
Scope/ Supervision And Interaction
Interface with customers, Parker Sales, Product Managers, Purchasing, Manufacturing and Quality. Perform design responsibilities as assigned by Management with minimal supervision.
PLEASE NOTE: This role is not eligible for Company provided relocation assistance or work visa sponsorship.
Responsibilities
Essential Functions:
Qualifications:
Equal Employment Opportunity
Parker is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Parker is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job related reasons regardless of race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, gender identity, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by law. However, U.S. Citizenship, Permanent Residency or other appropriate status is required for certain positions, in accord with U.S. import & export regulations.
(“Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / VEVRAA Federal Contractor”)
If you would like more information about Equal Employment Opportunity as an applicant under the law, please go to Employees & Job Applicants | U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Drug Tests
Drug-Free Workplace
In accordance with Parker’s policies and applicable state laws, Parker provides for a drug-free workplace. Therefore, all applicants seeking employment with Parker will be subject to drug testing as a condition of employment.
Parker Hannifin – Parflex Division
When you join Parker Hannifin’s Parflex Division, you're not just working on hoses and tubing — you're helping power the systems behind some of the most important vehicles, machines, and technologies in the world. From under the hood of U.S. military trucks like the JLTV and HEMTT, to inside the wings of the F-35 fighter jet and C-130 Hercules, our thermoplastic and fluoropolymer hose products are trusted in the world’s most demanding applications.
You’ll also find Parker Parflex products supporting wind farms, solar fields, food production plants, and next-generation hydrogen vehicles. Whether it’s helping to land a Black Hawk helicopter safely or making sure air brake systems on semi-trucks perform in any weather, our team builds solutions that keep America moving, protected, and growing.
Parflex is part of Parker’s Fluid Connectors Group, a global leader in motion and control technologies for over 100 years. At our facility, we focus on innovation, safety, and purpose-driven work. We offer stability, great benefits, and the satisfaction of building parts that truly make a difference.
Position Summary
Position Summary:
Achieving company cost and customer service objectives by ensuring timely and efficient completion of design responsibilities for a product. Primary focus on design and manufacturing thermoplastic hose, tubing and fittings
Scope/ Supervision And Interaction
Interface with customers, Parker Sales, Product Managers, Purchasing, Manufacturing and Quality. Perform design responsibilities as assigned by Management with minimal supervision.
PLEASE NOTE: This role is not eligible for Company provided relocation assistance or work visa sponsorship.
Responsibilities
Essential Functions:
- Prepare organized and detailed information on design calculations, stress analysis, and product descriptions for standards and special products.
- Prepare and/or participate in the preparation, checking and releasing of design layouts, and detail drawings.
- Coordinate lab testing as it relates to the product being designed. Initiate, evaluate, and analyze results of test programs on assigned projects.
- Design products utilizing CAD, customer proposal drawings, customer design intent information, and design concept drawings.
- Support Engineering, Marketing, Estimating, Purchasing, Manufacturing, Technical Service, Customer Service and Quality as required.
- Apply analysis methods (Value Analysis, Design of Experiments, FEA, SPC, FMEA, etc.), as required.
- Review and approve literature and technical information for assigned products, as required.
- Apply lean principles to all processes.
- Must continuously maintain the highest degree of customer service, throughput, quality, cost reduction and people productivity.
Qualifications:
- B.S. in mechanical or other relevant engineering field.
- 0-2 years of experience with engineering activities.
- Experience with thermoplastics, thermosets or fluoropolymer design or manufacturing is a plus
- Skilled in the use of CAD software such as AutoCAD, Pro-Engineer and/or other similar and relevant applications.
- Able to interpret technical catalogs.
- Computer literate in Windows environment.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Able to plan, organize and administer multiple development tasks concurrently.
- Background in analysis methods (Value Analysis, Design of Experiments, FEA, SPC, FMEA, etc.) a plus.
- Computer Aided Design experience with 3D modeling a plus.
- May require occasional travel to customers or other Parker Hannifin facilities.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Parker is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Parker is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job related reasons regardless of race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, gender identity, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by law. However, U.S. Citizenship, Permanent Residency or other appropriate status is required for certain positions, in accord with U.S. import & export regulations.
(“Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / VEVRAA Federal Contractor”)
If you would like more information about Equal Employment Opportunity as an applicant under the law, please go to Employees & Job Applicants | U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Drug Tests
Drug-Free Workplace
In accordance with Parker’s policies and applicable state laws, Parker provides for a drug-free workplace. Therefore, all applicants seeking employment with Parker will be subject to drug testing as a condition of employment.