Design Engineer

Athol, MA
764 South Athol Road
Athol, MA 01331, USA

To design or redesign tooling and equipment and to design or improve the processes in use or needed by the company to efficiently manufacture products for our customers.

• Reviews designs received from customers for suitability to the company's processes and manufacturability and suggests changes or improvements to enhance the value to the customer and reduce cost to the company.
• Listens to the customers' engineers as they describe their product needs and then fulfills those requirements by creatively employing the companies resources, or designing appropriate new processes to produce parts that meet the customers’ requirements.
• Discusses the company’s capabilities and the customers’ needs with the customers' engineers to arrive at mutually satisfactory part designs.
• Designs process improvements with the specific intent of improving worker safety, reducing labor, improving repeatability and overall product quality, and improving productivity throughput.
• Participates in the new tooling development process, ensuring that the tools produced by the Machine Shop are capable of meeting the design criteria and are up to Pexco’s high standards for design and workmanship.
• Supports other departments in their engineering needs. Actively seeks ways to provide internal design needs in the shortest possible lead time and with the simplest, most effective designs.
• Provides the Engineering Manager with timely feedback about the status of projects, problems, solutions, and information about other situations that may appropriately receive attention at that level.
• Solves problems with the company's manufacturing processes. Assists Production Personnel at all levels with engineering related process problems, as appropriate, or as directed by the Engineering Manager.
• Informs the Engineering Manager of critical deadlines, customer requests, issues concerning the company's designs and manufacturing systems, and other appropriate or significant information through written and/or verbal communication in a timely, competent and reliable manner.
• Keeps current on new developments and/or changing trends in the national markets of interest to Pexco, through personal contacts, reading materials, vendor representatives, etc., and advises the Engineering Manager of beneficial actions which need to be taken.
• Works with the Engineering Manager to prioritize problems and to determine an appropriate course of action to address them.
• Works with the Engineering Manager to establish effective cost accounting procedures for designs and processes, documenting the savings that could be made by effecting recommended changes.
• Coordinates the tooling needs for new products with the Engineering Manager, Machine Shop Supervisor, Die Development Technician(s), Quality Assurance Manager, and others involved in producing first article samples, to ensure that the tools, gauges, and systems delivered to the Manufacturing department are complete and will perform satisfactorily.
• Ability to deal with sensitive issues in a manner which maintains customer satisfaction and goodwill towards Pexco.
• Ability to plan, prioritize, and delegate work to make the most effective use of available time, recognizing when assistance from the Engineering Manager is required.
• Ability to relate to all other staff, in a productive, professional manner.
• Ability to remain professional and calm in a hostile or crisis situation.
• Performs other accountabilities, as apparent or assigned.

Work in close cooperation with and/or may provide work direction to:

• Maintenance Manager
• Mechanical Engineer
• Other shop help, as appropriate

• High school graduate or equivalent
• BS degree in…