Product Engineer

Ryobi Die Casting (USA) is looking for a talented automotive Product Engineer to join our team.

As a Product Engineer / Advanced Engineer, you will be working as a critical interface between our automotive customers’ design teams and the Ryobi manufacturing team to create the best possible product for all.

What will you do?

For the Product Engineer / Advanced Engineer to ensure success, the candidate should have excellent analytical skills, time/task management, and automotive part design for manufacturability skills. The ability to use a CAD software to make the ideas come to life is a very useful tool when communicating to the team. Preference will be given to candidates with automotive powertrain or body-in-white experience. An ideal candidate will have aluminum high pressure die casting experience.

• Organize, create, and discuss with customers, suppliers, and internal engineering teams to determine best part design for manufacturability, function and quality.
• Organize the interfaces with Customer to receive consensus on part design proposals.
• Create Design proposals within 3D to best communicate and present the improvements.
• During discussion with all teams, costs and return on investments must also be a consideration for each team’s perspective.
• Managing product design, part specifications, engineering changes, CAE reports and functional requirements.
• Provide support to Ryobi departments on issues pertaining to customer tooling, part specifications, and part function.
• Assist in program specific documentation maintenance (2D prints, 3D models, specifications, etc.).
• Adhere to multiple project and customer timelines.
• Support the core team through APQP (Advanced Part and Quality Planning) and PPAP (Production Part Approval Process).
• Support technical review of existing products.
• Perform special projects and other duties as assigned.

Why Ryobi?

Ryobi Die Casting has been in Shelbyville, IN for nearly 40 years. Ryobi (globally) has been in the high pressure die casting industry for 80 years. High pressure die casting was the starting industry for the company in Japan. We have been entrusted by all our automotive OEM customers over multiple product generations. Ryobi’s product portfolio is growing and changing alongside the automotive market transition from ICE to BEV vehicles.

We are proud to offer the following benefits to our full-time employees:

• On-Site Health Clinic
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Comprehensive Healthcare benefits
• Annual Profit Incentive Program
• 401(k) with Company match

What are the qualifications?

Education

4-year technical degree - Mechanical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering Technology Degree or Similar

Experience

4-7 years’ experience as a Product Engineer (automotive preferred)

Skills & Competencies

• Use of 3D CAD (SOLIDWORKS or NX Preferred)
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Ability to translate ideas into visualization (via CAD or other means)
• Good project management skills (individually/team guided)
• Ability to review multiple documents/designs with fine detail
• Basic operational knowledge of computer programs and various software, such as Microsoft Office Suite (specifically Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)
• Understanding of customer's drawings using GD&T and reviewing technical specifications
• Basic CAE skills (casting mold flow simulation - MAGMA Preferred)

Ryobi Die Casting (USA), Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.