Product Development Engineer (Albuquerque)

Company

Unirac is a national leader in the solar PV structural mounting industry. We enable our customers to power the world with clean, abundant energy by creating dependable, innovative mounting solutions. Unirac is a fast-paced work environment and is growing rapidly with many changes and new opportunities arising regularly.

Job description

Unirac is seeking a Product Development Engineer with a proven track record of bringing innovative solutions to market. Product development engineers at Unirac work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to develop products that delight our customers with a strong focus on innovation, manufacturability, and cost-control. PD engineers apply principles of engineering to evaluate new and existing products, utilizing state-of-the-art tools and physical testing methods. The Product Development Engineer serves as a technical lead, leveraging their experience to guiding engineering programs and initiatives from ideation through execution while meeting project schedule targets and product functional, performance, and cost requirement.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Innovate, conceive, design, engineer and develop products and / or components to provide new or improved function, to enter new markets and / or reduce costs of legacy products, in accordance with documented product requirements.
• Engineer products in accordance with appropriate regulatory requirements and associated standards, such as model building and electrical codes, ASCE 7, aluminum or steel design manuals, ASTM standards, etc.
• Select appropriate materials for applications, considering strength, deflection, cost, finish, corrosion, friction, etc.
• Engineer products considering techniques such as design for manufacturability, assembly, reliability.
• Consider ergonomic factors in product design, and how a product will actually install in the field
• Provide system level costs for new products
• Develop product acceptance criteria and test plans.
• Document product designs, engineering, test results and engineering changes in engineering reports.
• Review and approve Unirac engineering and test reports for new product introductions
• Create and / or order prototypes in the conception and development of new products and document results in engineering and / or test reports
• Create presentations and present engineering designs and changes as required
• Coordinate, communicate, interact and provide technical support to other functional groups
• Investigate new technologies, tools and processes and make recommendations for adoption as appropriate
• Ensure goals, schedules, cost targets and budgets are met
• Provide leadership and guidance to members of the PD group and others as needed
• Provide mentorship as needed.
• Maintain working knowledge of customer requirements and competitor trends
• Provide business level strategic thinking / and guidance based on engineering experience and expertise.

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