Product Design Engineer

Join us in shaping the future. As a Technical Product Engineer, you’ll be at the forefront of innovation, applying your deep understanding of tire manufacturing, construction, and performance to drive excellence from concept to production. You’ll play a pivotal role in launching new tire lines, refining existing specifications, and solving complex engineering challenges to ensure our products meet the highest standards.

This is more than a job — it’s an opportunity to make a lasting impact on the road ahead by improving performance, enhancing safety, and supporting a team that values precision and progress.

• Create and issue experimental tire building specifications or check experimental tire building specifications issued by another Tire Design Engineer.
• Conduct controlled experimental tire builds, verifying component accuracy and placement, confirm cured tire appearance meet required standards and coordinate confirmation testing.
• Perform cured tire analysis of experimental tire sections to ensure dimensional accuracy.
• Understand tire testing methods and each individual tire test and its parameters.
• Analyze test tire sections and understand test tire failure modes and how each failure mode correlates to real world conditions.
• Create and issue initial production tire building specifications or check initial production tire building specifications issued by another Tire Design Engineer.
• Verify initial production component accuracy and placement; confirm cured tire appearance meet required standards and coordinate confirmation testing.
• Review factory processing of the initial production tires (green scrap, cured scrap, cured anomalies, and uniformity levels).
• Perform cured tire analysis of initial production tire sections to ensure dimensional accuracy.
• Analyze test tire sections and understand test tire failure modes and how each failure mode correlates to real world conditions.
• Create and issue mass production tire building specifications or check mass production tire building specifications issued by another Tire Design Engineer.
• Create and maintain project schedules with the goal of meeting or exceeding project schedules.
• Coordinate experimental and initial production tire builds.
• Coordinate experimental and initial production testing.
• Perform competitor tire analysis using Smithers Scientific Data and / or through tire section analysis.
• Work with Material Design Engineers to introduce new materials and / or material suppliers for existing materials to the plant through material evaluation programs.
• Write and issue reports and procedures when necessary.
• Effectively present information in meetings to peers and management when necessary.
• Effectively communicate orally or in writing when necessary.
• Maintain existing specifications and support plant production departments when necessary.