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SUMMARY: Provide conceptual design, mechanical design, prototyping supervision and testing of new products.

 DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Product Development

• Seek & define Applications/Customer design requirements in concept phase
• Provide technical support to marketing in the preparation of New Product Business Opportunity Statements
• Design highly reliable electro-mechanical products using computer aided design 3d Modeling computer system.
• Participate in design reviews throughout the Product Development Process (PDP)
• As required, serve as the leader of cross functional Product Development Teams (PDT) during the development of new Products
• Work to performance and cost/volume targets.
• Conduct tolerance analysis and finite element material properties analysis
• Generate detailed drawings to VPC standards using GTD as appropriate.
• Design experiments / test plans to assure compliance to reliability requirements.
• Develop test plans and perform testing or over-see technicians in testing.
• Document or support the documentation of test results
• Use Design for Manufacturability Methods to work with suppliers, VPC manufacturing and other teams to achieve desired results.

• Sustain Engineering Efforts
  • Use applications/product knowledge to:

• Serve as consultant for RNP’s to filter out rejects, determine the most feasible way to provide a quality quote in the least amount of time.
• Use PDP methods mentioned above to design complex product extensions of existing products.
• Serve as consultant to provide high level applications engineering support to customers. 
• Use engineering analysis to resolve customer application issues
• Use engineering analysis to resolve customer quality issues on legacy product.
• Provide support with Eng. Change Notice (ECN) process

• Lead cost reduction efforts for legacy products.
• Support Manufacturing Efforts
  • Use understanding of VPC manufacturing competencies engineering skills, to:  

• Support manufacturing to resolve issues during production of existing products
• Support quality department in investigations to improve product quality

• Support manufacturing engineering in cost saving or process improvement projects.
• Performs other related duties as assigned by management.

• Bachelor's Degree (BA) from four-year college or university in Mechanical Engineering and training in the design and testing of small, high reliability electromechanical devices.
• 5 years of CAD experience – Solidworks preferred. Familiarity with internet software, e-mail, word processing and spreadsheets. Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, LabVIEW and Altium PCB Design software a plus.
• Familiarity with electrical test equipment and various manufacturing processes preferred.