Job Purpose:

To direct and participate in the design and development of new product concepts and complex engineering projects for release to production in a manner to ensure products provide superior performance, durability, quality, and serviceability.

Job Duties

• Conceives and provides practical product design applications using complex technical principles. Emphasis of this position is on creating concepts and directing the design and development of complex engineering projects.
• Prepares concept, design, development, and feasibility studies of complex engineering projects. Delegates portions of the project to other engineers and leads and coordinates the design, analysis, and computer simulation effort. Prepares development plans and is responsible for meeting scheduled dates. Acts as the development team leader by interacting with Plant locations and various engineering departments. Conducts technical evaluations of major systems on competitive products.
• Coordinates product tests with prove design and prototype build up and test areas. Provides guidance to other engineers responsible for portions of the product project to ensure development schedules are met.
   
• Evaluates, defines, and resolves design and manufacturing problems. Travels to foreign and domestic plants, dealerships, and customer job sites to solve design problems or to field test locations to evaluate a product improvement. Uses technical expertise and product knowledge to play the leadership role in the problem resolution process when interfacing with Test and Evaluation, Service, Plant personnel, suppliers, and consultants. Works with manufacturability teams resolving problems with manufacturing and statistical process controls.
• Keeps abreast of latest technological advancements and prepares design concepts and develops unique product design features the Company often patents to gain competitive advantage. Travels worldwide to suppliers, production plants, dealerships, customer job sites, and field test locations related to the development of engineering projects and problem resolution.
   

Key Responsibilities:

• Support for Electrical Engineering team in terms of design and development of Solutions products and components.
• Progression of Cost Reduction Ideas to meet defined targets.
• Provide technical support to Purchasing and Supply Chain departments to ensure standards compliance for products and components.
• Providing modelling and detailing support to engineers as required.
• Specification and requisition of production materials for manufacture and finished components for assembly.

Essential Criteria:

• A Degree in Electrical Engineering or relevant discipline with extensive work-related experience
• Previous experience of working in WS CAD, Creo – Electrical, Auto CAD-Electrical, ePlan, Teamcenter etc.
• Previous experience of a product design/development environment
• Working experience of a production environment.
• Ability to create and interpret engineering drawings in accordance with recognised standards.

Desirable Criteria:

• Experience of working with SAP or similar Bill of Materials software in a previous role.
• A competent working knowledge of Microsoft Office.
• Ability to work with global workforce.
• Preferable knowledge on Diesel engines, Genset package and its control systems.
• Proficiency in German language.