Product Development Engineering

Hunter Douglas is the world’s leading manufacturer of window coverings and a major manufacturer of architectural products. We are a brand that you know and trust. With more than 100 years of innovation, we’ve defined our industry with proprietary products that deliver revolutionary style and functionality and can be found in millions of homes and commercial buildings globally.

We are searching for candidates that are driven, intelligent, creative, and entrepreneurial. By offering challenging and accelerated opportunities for growth, powered by a shared hunger for success, we create a space for your career to thrive. In return for your expertise, we are committed to providing competitive and robust total compensation and benefit packages to ensure you feel valued. Our dream is to become the fastest growing, most loved, window covering company in the world.

What’s yours?

The Product Development Engineer – Outdoor Products applies mechanical engineering expertise, creativity, and analytical problem-solving to develop, improve, and sustain exterior products, including outdoor screens, awnings, and shading systems. This role supports new product development, cost and quality improvements, and sustaining engineering activities, taking designs from concept through production launch.
The engineer will work cross-functionally with Product Management, Process Engineering, Operations, Purchasing, Quality, and Suppliers to deliver robust, manufacturable designs that meet performance, durability, aesthetic, and regulatory requirements for outdoor environments.

• Design, analyze, and validate mechanical components, mechanisms, and assemblies for exterior products such as screens, awnings, frames, brackets, drive systems, and mounting hardware.
  Develop solutions for new product introductions, product enhancements, and quality or field-related issues.
  Use parametric 3D CAD tools (NX and/or Solid Works) to create models, assemblies, and production drawings.
  Design with consideration for outdoor environmental exposure including wind loads, UV, temperature extremes, moisture, corrosion, and long-term durability.
  Define design requirements, test criteria, and validation methods to ensure safety, performance, durability, and compliance with applicable standards.
  Conduct design reviews, tolerance stack-ups, DFMEA, and statistical analysis to ensure design robustness.
  Plan and execute functional, durability, and life-cycle testing; analyze test data and recommend design improvements.
  Perform root cause analysis using data-driven methods and implement corrective actions.
  Coordinate prototype builds, pilot runs, and production launches.
  Lead or support tooling development, approve first article inspections, and drive design-for-manufacturing efforts.
  Collaborate with fabrication and operations teams to ensure designs are manufacturable, serviceable, and cost-effective.
  Utilize rapid prototyping methods, including 3D printing, to validate and refine designs.

The Product Development Engineer – Outdoor Products applies mechanical engineering expertise, creativity, and analytical problem-solving to develop, improve, and sustain exterior products, including outdoor screens, awnings, and shading systems. This role supports new product development, cost and quality improvements, and sustaining engineering activities, taking designs from concept through production launch.
The engineer will work cross-functionally with Product Management, Process Engineering, Operations, Purchasing, Quality, and Suppliers to deliver robust, manufacturable designs that meet performance, durability, aesthetic, and regulatory requirements for outdoor environments.

• Design, analyze, and validate mechanical components, mechanisms, and assemblies for exterior products such as screens, awnings, frames, brackets, drive systems, and mounting hardware.
  Develop solutions for new product introductions, product enhancements, and quality or field-related issues.
  Use parametric 3D CAD tools (NX and/or Solid Works) to create models, assemblies, and production drawings.
  Design with consideration for outdoor…