What are the responsibilities and job description for the Research And Development Engineer position at Rangam?
Company Description
Rangam is a global, innovative Total Talent management firm with over 25 years of experience. We are a minority-, woman-, and disability-owned company committed to promoting sustainable and inclusive talent programs. Our mission is to accelerate meaningful employment for everyone, and our vision is to be the world's leader in connecting talent, communities, and employers. We value empathy, integrity, agility, inclusion, and innovation in everything we do.
Job Description
- Meeting with business management, marketing, and the R&D team to discuss product ideas
- Conducting market research and evaluating similar products and their functions.
- Collaborating with the engineering and marketing department on product feasibility.
- Redesigning existing products to enhance functionality or reduce costs.
- -Creating design projects and specification sheets.
- Presenting product designs to management and stakeholders.
- -Overseeing the engineering of product prototypes.
- Testing prototype products for functionality, ease-of-use, and longevity.
- Resolving product issues.
- Overseeing the production process.
Skills Needed:
- Leadership, Embraces Change/Agile, Collaborative, Develops Others, Operates with Discipline, Business Mastery, Technical Mastery.
Nice To Have
- Ability to quickly take direction from Client employees and determine the right testing to execute for a project given guidance from Client.
- Viewing specifications and standards in Client systems to determine parameters for testing
- Interfacing with other Client functions, packaging suppliers, or 3rd party testing labs that are involved in the testing.
- A good base knowledge in key manufacturing processes (blow-molding, injection molding, etc.)
- Glass Injection Moldings
- Learning Plans
Must Have
- Execute with Excellence - Previous role experience within Initiative Leadership, Project Management, Marketing Specialist, or Work Process Ownership. Demonstration and Implementation of work processes, workflows, working with Multifunctional Resources/Teams. Acts as a business owner with great sense of urgency and focus to manage multiple projects/priorities with the organization and attention to detail. High Capacity to lead multiple projects at any given period.
- Lead with Courage – Ability to demonstrate Leadership to set direction/priority for others, hold others accountable to deadlines, develop execution plans, and work collectively across functions and suppliers. Can manage expectations and engagement across all business functions.
- Embraces Change – Is open and flexible/adaptable to change by seeking out and readily accepting new ideas, experiences, skills, opportunities, and new work processes.
- Excellent Communications/Collaboration skills to lead meetings, listening to feedback/input to put into clear actions, written updates to Initiative teams/leadership, peers and escalate help requests/issues. Strong Collaboration with internal and external partners.
- Strong Problem-solving skills to quickly identify and resolve issues to root cause, access risk and determine approach/next steps to mitigate.
- Champion Productivity- Demonstration of skills/experience to analyze data for utilization in results reporting (written/oral), gap analysis, loss analysis and work process improvement. Is capable to demonstrate mastery within Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Office 365 Tools.
