Textile Product Engineer

Principal Accountabilities:  (The job’s essential or most important functions and responsibilities.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)

·         Obtains an in-depth understanding of product design which allows for standard products and special customer requirements to be successfully designed and manufactured. 

·         Designs customer specials within the scope of departmental responsibilities

·         Works with Applications Engineers to understand customer requirements with respect to specific product designs.  Understands critical dimensions and is able to convey that to our suppliers through drawings or conversations to help ensure appropriate product design and quality.

·         Provide engineering support for Supplier Qualification efforts.

·         Acts as a resource for materials, plating and heat treating technical questions, including appropriate research into new areas that are currently unfamiliar to us.

·         Work with the Manufacturing Engineer and other Product team members to recommend or assist with the transition of a purchased part to a manufactured in-house item. 

·         Respond in a timely manner to Product ADS's and lead approved projects through the system.

·         Assures manufacturability of products through coordinated efforts with product suppliers, and/or manufacturing engineering and production.

·         Able to converse professionally with customers or product suppliers as required to ensure customer's needs are met.  Travel to supplier locations or customer sites may be necessary to work through design or quality issues.

·         Interfaces with Quality to help determine critical dimensions for inspection, best practices in inspection methods, and provides input into product quality issues.

·         Coordinates and/or performs testing of new product designs to ensure product designs meet quality and design specification criteria.  This includes compliance to regulations that the market requires. (ex: Reach, Rohs, FDA, etc)

·         Interfaces and coordinates with New Product Development on new product design projects to help ensure manufacturing needs are met. 

·         Responsible for all documentation associated with the assigned products (manufactured or purchased), including drawings, revisions level document control, and communication of updates to bills of materials, routings, etc.  Develops, organizes and maintains the drawing database and keeps buyers and suppliers current on latest revisions.

·         Initiates and may lead ECR changes related to product design changes, catalog issues, quality concerns, supplier differences or as a result of changing customer requirements or customer feedback.

·         Effectively communicates with other associates throughout the organization.

·         Participates in and leads project teams as needed.

·         Promote Fenner Precision Polymers Values and Behaviors at all times.

 Education and/or Relative Experience:  (The level of education and/or experience needed to successfully accomplish the essential duties of this job.)

·         Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (B.S.)

·         Minimum three to five years of Textile product design experience

·         Experience with designing and manufacturing of a product

·         Proficiency in Solidworks with advances knowledge of table drive models/ assemblies/drawings

·         Versed in Lean/ Six Sigma tools.

 Certificates, Licenses, Registrations  (The licenses, certificates or registrations that are required to perform the essential duties of this job.)

Six Sigma Yellow belt/ Green belt preferred

Notice to Staffing Agencies, Placement Services, and Professional Recruiters  

Fenner Precision Polymers has an internal Staffing Department. Recruiters are hereby specifically directed NOT to contact Fenner employees directly in an attempt to present candidates. 

Fenner will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate. Any unsolicited resumes sent to Fenner, including unsolicited resumes sent to an Fenner mailing address, fax machine or email address, directly to Fenner employees, or to Fenner’s resume database will be considered Fenner property. Fenner will NOT pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume. Fenner will consider any candidate for whom a Recruiter has submitted an unsolicited resume to have been referred by the Recruiter free of any charges or fees.

Fenner will not pay a fee to any Recruiter that does not have a signed Fenner contract in place specific to the position for which the resume was submitted.   

Recruiting vendor agreements will only be valid if in writing and signed by Fenner’s Vice President of Human Resources or his or her designee. No other Fenner employee is authorized to bind Fenner to any agreement regarding the placement of candidates by Recruiters. By submitting a candidate to Fenner, recruiters agree to be bound and comply with this policy.