Role Description:

• This is a part-time role responsible for engineering of both new and existing products to meet the requirements of our customers. This role will work directly with Industrial Designers, Product Marketing, Packaging Engineers and Process Engineers to design and engineer products to meet all required specifications.

Purpose Accountability:

• Embrace the Purpose of the organization and role model behaviors aligned to our Purpose and Guiding Principles

Responsibilities:

(Include Safety and Environmental, Quality, and Job Specific Roles and Responsibilities)

• Responsible for design and engineering of products including material/manufacturing/tooling process selection, translation of market requirements to product specifications, CAD documentation, BOM structure, technical reviews, product testing and implementation.
• Works with team members to "clearly" define product concept design and identify product design and manufacturing process alternative.
• Responsible for packaging design for new and existing products
• Validate engineering by identifying and testing to appropriate Kimball and external standards.
• Lead prototyping activities to deliver viable samples
• Determine nature of technical problems and possible solutions, such as product redesign, substitution of material or parts, or rearrangements of parts of subassemblies.
• Create product designs that optimize manufacturability
• Develop design solutions utilizing existing platforms
• Create quality and material standards based off platformed products
• Provide product and tooling options and costs
• Responsible for EC analysis and implementation
• Ensure as manufactured product meets all design and performance intent (ex quality, fit form and function)
• Ownership of assignment from conception to commercialization
• Perform complex design investigation, engineering analyses, and feasibility studies for new components or products using customer-supplied data, past experience and engineering principles
• Optimize product design vs. cost by challenging manufacturing, make us. Buy, and product costing strategies
• Create new or optimized product platforms across multiple mfg units and products series to reduce complexity
• Create new quality and material standards
• Revise and creates engineering standards
• Support our Vision and Guiding Principles
• Adhere to company safety guideline