Infiltrator Water Technologies (IWT) is a market leader within the onsite wastewater treatment industry, Infiltrator manufactures a variety of revolutionary products and innovative, environmentally friendly alternatives to traditional stone and pipe leachfield and concrete septic wastewater system components. IWT is a wholly owned subsidiary of Advanced Drainage Systems (ticker: WMS, NYSE).

The majority of our products are produced almost entirely from recycled resins. Infiltrator’s recycling operation is among the country’s top twenty producers / consumers of recycled resins and among only a few of whom consume 100% of that resin in the finished products produced. Infiltrator operates some of largest molding machines and robotics producing the largest plastic molded parts in the world. IWT has always and continues to compete on innovation; we hold over 200 patents.

Role Overview: 

This position is responsible for working with our engineering teams to develop new product opportunities and develop a strategy for product implementation. The primary focus is to help develop new products in tangential market segments that will increase the opportunities for the company.  This position is responsible for evaluating existing market opportunities and collaborating with other engineers in the company to develop products.  The candidate will be a highly motivated product development engineer with a strong background in evaluating new markets and developing product solutions to meet latent needs. 

Requires a bachelor's degree in engineering.

Reporting Relationships:

• Will report to VP of Engineering
• No direct reports initially

Responsibilities:

Market research:

• Collect primary and secondary market research as needed to gather key competitive information, market sizing, trends, channel requirements, etc.  Analyze and report market research to team as required
• Search for and identify opportunities to improve existing product lines as well as ways to enter new product categories, create new extensions, etc.
• Identify and integrate market research to determine the needs and goals of new product development.

Product Development:

• Work closely with engineering team in developing products from concept to launch, this will include assisting with brainstorming, features/benefits specifications, design input, prototype evaluation with market and assist in developing a business plan to release for capital approval
• Manage Product development programs from inception to production release. This includes leading cross-functional groups throughout the entire development process.
• Conceptualizing new product ideas by collaborating with IWT Engineering, Marketing, Sales, and Manufacturing
• Management of resources to ensure that all required steps of development have been coordinated and completed to move program through each phase of development
• Delivering product specifications and procedures to the manufacturing team for production purposes.
• Analyzing existing products to identify areas for improvement and updating current documentation.