Design Engineer

Job Title: Design Engineer

Type: Full-time, Exempt

Location: Glasgow, KY

Reporting to: Manager of Project Engineering

Company: Tate

At Tate we are passionate about everything we do. As an independent brand operating within Kingspan Group, a global plc group of companies, Tate has been recognized worldwide as an industry leader in the development and manufacture of data center infrastructure solutions and commercial office raised access floors, for over 60 years. With revenues of over $600m and growing, Tate plays a pivotal role in offering expertise in cutting edge design engineering in order to craft solutions, by working collaboratively with clients as a trusted partner.

Tate continues to grow and expand, operating multiple manufacturing and commercial sites across the US, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We are excited about our fresh, dynamic, and inclusive team of experts working on new innovations and forward-thinking designs, as we remain a market leading player within our industry. We continue to invest heavily in the best available manufacturing tools and equipment needed to adhere to Tate’s world class standards and in keeping with our Planet Passionate sustainability strategy, our focus is on having minimal climate impact.

We are excited by potentially welcoming you as part of our team as we continue to grow on a worldwide scale.

The Design Engineer manages new product creation, engineering changes, and qualification processes for data center products, bills of material, and labor routings for all new products and product changes via prototyping and actual manufacturing process performance analysis. They develop quotations for non-standard and new product pricing requests. The Design Engineer also maintains engineering drawings, specifications, and quality procedure documentation.

• Develops processes for new families of products with production,purchasing, quality, and operations teams.
• Employs design for manufacturing techniques to model and design components and assemblies for our proprietary manufacturing techniques
• Proactively accounts for potential changes to designs and future-proofs where possible.
• Creates quotes for new design and maintains design history throughout quoting
• Maintains engineering drawings and specifications.
• Administers process for new part number creation, bills of material/labor changes, and new product quote requests but not information related to MI%
• Interprets project needs from customer, project manager, or architectural drawings and communicates feasibility, lead times, and potential challenges.
• Creates project submittal documents for approval of project design and details.
• Supports manufacturing team with new process development.
• Maintains awareness of individual contribution to and impact of the quality, safety, environmental, and product compliance policies and activities; reports all quality issues, unsafe acts, and unsafe conditions to the proper personnel.

• Remain compliant with the Code of Conduct and Policies which includes the Kingspan Group Compliance Policy.
• Ensure that all duties related to product compliance are adhered to in accordance with the Product Compliance Policy, Laws, Regulations, and market demands.
• Responsible for all tasks to achieve compliance goals and demands of the Compliance Management System.
• Must raise concerns related to the Compliance Management System to their supervisor, manager, or any member of the Leadership Team, or through the confidential whistle blower service.

• Abachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or any STEM field is required.
• Up to five years of relevant experience in a manufacturing environment is preferred.
• Proficiency with 2D and 3D CAD (Computer Aided Design) systems is
• Project Management experience is a plus.
• Previous experience with engineering drawing standards and practices, new product development, manufacturing processes and controls a plus.
• Must be proficient with Solid Works.
• AutoCAD and Revit experience a plus, particularly BIM (Building Information Modeling) modeling.
• Must…