Product Development Engineer

Job Title:
Engineering, Design, R&D - Mechanical Engineer

Location:
Burlington, MA 01803

Duration: 6+ months

Join the Appliance organization as a Product Engineer on the Attributes team, contributing to the development of next generation appliances. As part of cross functional teams, you’ll help drive product innovation by leading attribute development work across new and existing appliances. The role will be involved in all phases of Appliance development with an emphasis on making connections between our consumers’ perception of the Craftsmanship of our products and the detailed design of our products to both understand where we can improve versus our competition and create a vision of the future

• o:
  
  Support attribute focused projects through our product development process to build reusable knowled
• ge Reference existing research and synthesize analysis from
• it Partner with internal or external resources to conduct consumer resear
• ch Build prototypes that are used for evaluation or modeling to understand trade spac
• es Support the development of key product attribute prototypes and the development of specifications primarily focused on the Craftsmanship attribu
• te Development of new testing methods for requirement verificati
• on Creation of new quantitative product requirements and targe
• ts Analyze testing data to build new insigh
• ts Manage and conduct craftsmanship reviews of Keurig and competitive products leveraging our evaluation mod
• el Correlation of our consumer feedback to the craftsmanship of our produc
• ts Create 3D CAD models, engineering drawings, specifications, and tolerance analys
• es Partner with a cross-functional team of technical, business and manufacturing subject matter exper

• s:
  
  Bachelor’s degree in Design Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Plastics Engineering or simil
• ar3+ years of professional experience in a relevant indust
• ry Experience with user-centered design practices including quantifying the relationship between consumer perception and product attributes (craftsmanship, performance, usability, etc
• s)
  Component and assembly design analys
• is Excellent oral and written communication skil

• Experience working in a new product development environme
• nt Experience “speaking” the languages of consumer insights, marketing, engineering, design, and analyti
• cs Understanding of plastic part design for injection moldi
• ng Design for Manufacturing and Design for Assembly principles and best practic
• es Design for Six Sigma practices including Root Cause Analysis, 8D, A3, Design of Experiments, et
• c.Technical
  
  Skills:
  
  Teamcenter, JMP, MATLAB, Lab View, Solid Wor