Design Engineer, Car Seats

Design Engineer, Car Seats

19 Jan 2024
Georgia, Atlanta, 30301 Atlanta USA

Design Engineer, Car Seats

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Product Development and Design Engineer, Car SeatsThe Graco, Century and Baby Jogger brands are market leaders and set the standard in the car seat industry for safety, quality, features, and exceptional longevity and value. Our products are put to the test daily protecting children in motor vehicle accidents all over the world.Job Summary:This position will join our new product development group will help drive all aspects of the development process – conception, ideation, design, detailed engineering, tooling, product validation and production start. Our mission is to transform an idea into products on time, on cost, and with exceptional quality of execution. This is a challenging engineering position – our team is staffed with individuals who enjoy solving complex problems.This position will join one of our project teams (typically 2-4 engineers), partnering closely with peers in project management, marketing, industrial design, usability, and other related disciplines – strong collaboration skills and the ability to flourish in a team environment is required. Some domestic and international travel (less than 10%) will be required.Job Responsibilities:Design Engineering – 40%Partners with industrial designers to ensure safety, product performance and manufacturing needs are met.

Generates Computer Aided Design (CAD) models of parts and assemblies and uses Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) software to optimize them for production.

Works with internal and external suppliers to refine the product design and optimize it for manufacturing.

Uses our state-of-the-art RP capability to build prototypes for evaluation and testing.

Product Engineering – 30%Works with peers in marketing, design, usability, quality, and manufacturing to ensure all stakeholder needs are met.

Supports costing and capital expenditure analysis activities.

Understands and applies federal, industry and internal standards and ensures products meet safety, compliance and performance requirements.

Supports tooling development and pre-production sample builds.

Product Validation -30%Supports validation test plan development

Supports pre-production crash testing in both internal and external test labs

Analyzes test results to understand product performance

Fabricates prototype samples for testing using basic hand, power and bench tools.

Required Qualifications/Skills:Bachelor’s Degree in mechanical engineering, mechanical engineering technology, or similar disciplines.

2-5 years of product development or product design engineering experience

Working knowledge of 3D CAD (Creo Preferred)

Strong working knowledge of mechanical engineering fundamentals: static analysis, dynamic analysis, deformable bodies, mechanism design

Comfort using basic hand, power and bench tools to fabricate prototypes and modify test samples

Desired Qualifications/Skills:Consumer product development experience

Design for plastic injection molding experience

Product validation and verification activities experience

Working knowledge of FEA software for structural analysis

Working knowledge of rapid prototyping techniques and applications

Newell Brands (NASDAQ: NWL) is a leading global consumer goods company with a strong portfolio of well-known brands, including Paper Mate, Sharpie, Dymo, EXPO, Parker, Elmers, Coleman, Marmot, Oster, Sunbeam, FoodSaver, Mr. Coffee, Graco, Baby Jogger, NUK, Calphalon, Rubbermaid, Contigo, First Alert, and Yankee Candle. For hundreds of millions of consumers, Newell Brands makes life better every day, where they live, learn, work and play. Newell Brands and its subsidiaries are Equal OpportunityEmployers and comply with applicable employment laws. EOE/M/F/Vet/Disabled are encouraged to apply.Newell Brands is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We provide all employees and applicants for employment with equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship, immigration status, marital status, military status, any covered veteran status, disability status, genetic information, caregiving responsibilities or any other basis prohibited by law.

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    JC32106126
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  • Hiring Company
    Newell Brands
  • Date
    2022-01-19
  • Deadline
    2022-03-20
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