Product Engineer

Description

Product Engineer
Holyoke, MA

Description

The TSUBAKI name is synonymous with excellence in quality, dependability and customer service. U.S. Tsubaki is a leading manufacturer and supplier of power transmission and motion control products. As a part of a vast, international network of corporate and industrial resources, Tsubaki offers its customers the finest state-of-the-art products available in the world and we strive to be the “Best Value” supplier in the industry.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: The essential duties and responsibilities of this job are included but not limited to this job description; other tasks may be assigned and expected to be performed.

Design roller chain components, assemblies, and accessories in solid modelling or equivalent software using established industry GD&T principles.
Perform product-related contract review on new customer orders and product configurations.
Define performance criteria for roller chain designs, including key properties such as dimensions, materials, hardness, etc.
Generate component and assembly manufacturing routings.
Evaluate existing roller chain product for quality, performance, and cost improvement. Facilitate engineering changes to support improvements, and train employees as needed.
Write and maintain specifications for the various roller chain product lines, and control per the ISO 9001 QMS requirements.
Write and facilitate qualification plans for new product designs and adaptations to ensure that planned changes meet their intended acceptance criteria. Include, as necessary, statistical methods and design of experiments methodology.
Provide technical support to both external customers (salesmen, distributors, end-users) and internal customers (production, manufacturing engineering, quality engineering, planning)
Provide product engineering training for a variety of audiences including employees, customers, and sales.
Lead or support internal improvement projects. Continuously improve the operation.
Participate in quality and safety audits to ensure conformity to ISO and OSHA regulations.
Facilitate Design Review meetings with manufacturing engineering, quality engineering, and production departments.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering
Three plus years of related experience
CAD, design, verbal and written communication
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
Ability to comprehend and apply principles of math skills as they apply to tooling design and machining process. Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
Ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems. Ability to deal with nonverbal symbolism (formulas, scientific equations, graphs, etc.) in its most difficult phases. Ability to deal with a variety of abstract and concrete variables.
Engineering Principles
Ability to travel

U.S. Tsubaki offers a competitive compensation package, including health benefits effective on date of hire, generous 401(k) match and profit sharing, education reimbursement, and annual bonus potential.