Product Engineer

The Product Engineer is responsible for the successful development, introduction, and ongoing technical support of aerospace investment castings at PCC Structurals Carson City. This position translates customer drawings, specifications, and product requirements into robust manufacturing processes capable of consistently producing conforming castings.

Working closely with Manufacturing, Quality, Process Engineering, Tooling, and other cross-functional teams, the Product Engineer supports products throughout the manufacturing lifecycle. From new product development and process definition through production release, dimensional improvement, cost reduction, and ongoing manufacturing support.

The Product Engineer serves as a technical resource for assigned products and customers, with responsibility for understanding product requirements, developing manufacturing methods and tooling, resolving technical and dimensional issues, and driving improvements in quality, manufacturability, cost, and process performance.

• Lead engineering activities associated with the development and introduction of new investment cast products.
• Review customer drawings, specifications, models, purchase order requirements, and other technical documentation to establish manufacturing requirements.
• Evaluate product designs for manufacturability and identify potential technical, dimensional, tooling, or process risks.
• Develop manufacturing plans and engineering requirements necessary to successfully produce new products.
• Establish and maintain development schedules and technical milestones for assigned products.
• Coordinate engineering activities through development, qualification, and production release.
• Partner cross-functionally to resolve development issues and ensure new products progress through required manufacturing and qualification activities.
• Support first article, development, and qualification requirements as applicable.
• Ensure engineering documentation and manufacturing requirements are complete and accurate prior to production release.

• Develop and maintain manufacturing methods, tooling requirements, and engineering procedures necessary to produce conforming investment castings.
• Develop and support gating concepts and designs based on casting geometry, alloy characteristics, process requirements, and manufacturing capability.
• Apply knowledge of investment casting processes when evaluating product designs and resolving manufacturing issues.
• Understand the interaction between casting geometry, tooling, wax, shell, foundry, heat treatment, finishing, dimensional processing, and other downstream manufacturing operations.
• Evaluate casting and manufacturing conditions that may contribute to defects, dimensional variation, scrap, rework, or inconsistent process performance.
• Partner with Process Engineering and Operations to improve manufacturing capability and product performance.
• Support tooling development, modification, maintenance, and improvement activities for assigned products.
• Evaluate opportunities to improve manufacturability, yield, process capability, and product flow.

• Interpret complex engineering drawings, customer specifications, models, and technical requirements.
• Apply Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) principles when evaluating product and dimensional requirements.
• Review drawing revisions and specification changes and determine potential impact to tooling, manufacturing processes, inspection requirements, cost, and product configuration.
• Translate customer engineering requirements into clear and accurate manufacturing instructions.
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