Product Engineer

PRODUCT ENGINEER

Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Brentwood, TN / Onsite
Reports To: Director of Engineering
Brand/Segment: Gathr Outdoors

Gathr Outdoors, a portfolio company of Centre Partners, is a diversified global company that designs and manufactures outdoor products and sporting goods. Our mission is to inspire time together outdoors by promoting a passion for outdoor experiences.

Our portfolio is built around a collection of trusted brands serving consumers across outdoor recreation, sporting goods, and related lifestyle categories. We are committed to developing innovative, high-quality products and creating meaningful experiences for our customers and consumers.

Gathr Outdoors is seeking a Product Engineer to join our Engineering team in Brentwood, Tennessee. This hands-on role supports existing products while contributing to product improvements and new product development from concept through production.

The Product Engineer will combine mechanical design, sustaining engineering, troubleshooting, prototype fabrication, product testing, and technical documentation to help deliver reliable, high-quality consumer products. The position works closely with internal teams, customers, suppliers, and international engineering, quality, sourcing, and manufacturing partners.

The ideal candidate is a practical problem solver who enjoys working directly with products—designing, building, testing, troubleshooting, and improving them—and can effectively manage projects and technical issues through completion.

• Support existing products and resolve manufacturing, quality, assembly, performance, and customer-related issues.
• Investigate product failures, identify root causes, and develop and implement appropriate corrective actions.
• Identify and develop product, material, process, quality, and cost improvements.
• Support new product development, including concept development, mechanical design, prototyping, testing, validation, and production launch.
• Create and modify 3D CAD models, engineering drawings, specifications, and other technical documentation.
• Build prototypes and customer samples using methods including 3D printing, painting, finishing, bonding, and mechanical assembly.
• Plan and conduct testing of prototype and production products to evaluate function, durability, performance, and compliance with specifications.
• Develop test methods, fixtures, procedures, and validation approaches as needed.
• Document test setups, procedures, results, observations, conclusions, and recommendations in clear technical reports.
• Review production samples, first articles, and proposed engineering changes to ensure product and specification requirements are met.
• Communicate technical information, project status, test results, recommendations, and corrective actions to customers and internal stakeholders.
• Coordinate engineering activities with international colleagues, including engineering, quality, sourcing, and manufacturing teams in Hong Kong.
• Work collaboratively with suppliers and manufacturing partners to address technical and production-related issues.
• Track projects, engineering activities, and open issues through successful completion.
• Maintain engineering samples, tools, test equipment, materials, and prototype work areas.
• Perform other engineering and product-development responsibilities as assigned.

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Product Design, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• 3+ years of experience in product engineering, mechanical design, sustaining engineering, manufacturing engineering, product development, or a related field.
• Strong mechanical aptitude with demonstrated practical problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience developing mechanical or consumer products from concept through production.
• Ability to read and create engineering drawings and understand dimensions, tolerances, materials, specifications, and manufacturing requirements.
• Proficiency with 3D CAD software;
  Solid Works preferred
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• Hands-on experience with prototyping, 3D printing, product testing, hand tools, and…