Principal Responsibilities
- Provide technical support to the Sales force in the areas of bearing design, design improvements, customer support, production support and review of new applications.
- Works with customers to resolve technical problems and makes technical presentations with the Sales Engineers at target accounts.
- Review of new applications and provide technical solutions to ensure product performance.
- Responsible for the conceptual design engineering of new products, special products and contribute to the improvement of existing products and manufacturing methods to meet customer demands.
- Technical consultant on product design, application and service problems, quality deviations and material and parts substitution. Assists in the technical education of sales trainees and personnel of other departments.
- Functions as an engineering consultant to manufacturing on problems related to the manufacture of the company's products.
- Provides product design requirements to product designers assigned to specific projects and assures that all detail process step drawings are in conformance to the requirements and technical specifications.
- Establishes bearing testing requirements and test plans and reports test results to customers to gain product approval.
- Responsible for establishing new products into the MRP AS400 system and creating the associated Bill-of-Material.
- Responsible for approving new product designs and releasing designs to manufacturing
- Supports lean enterprise activities in support of API Plant objectives.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related engineering field and 5 years of experience in design drafting, mechanical design or manufacturing methods and/or related engineering field in a manufacturing environment or any combination of experience, education and training which would provide the level of knowledge, skill and ability required.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Bearing design principles and practices
- Mechanical design principles and practices
- Geometric dimensioning and tolerancing
- Company products and manufacturing processes
- ITAR Regulations
- Familiarity with and ability to interpret customer and industry standards and specifications.
- Lean Enterprise methods
- Solid Modeling CAD Software
- Computer skills
- Familiarity with various operating systems
- Knowledge of bearing test lab equipment and capabilities
- Bearing failure evaluation and analysis
- Able to analyze data to make decisions relative to product performance and manufacturing.
- Able to create and make technical presentations
- Communicate effectively, orally and in writing