Senior Product Engineer

# Senior Product Engineer Greensboro - Greensboro, NC ## Description
** About Camco Manufacturing:
** Camco Manufacturing, founded in 1966, has evolved from a humble beginning with one employee and a single product to become a powerhouse in the outdoor recreation market. With a rich history spanning over 50 years, Camco has grown exponentially, boasting a workforce of over 1,000 employees, 140+ patents, and an extensive product line exceeding 5,600 offerings. The company's commitment to innovation is evident through its best-in-class, in-house development team, specializing in creating cutting-edge products for the RV, marine, ATV, and other outdoor recreation industries.

Headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina, Camco operates eight separate manufacturing and warehousing facilities encompassing one million square feet. This extensive infrastructure allows Camco to efficiently meet the diverse needs of its customers, solidifying its position as a leading aftermarket parts and accessories manufacturer in the fast-growing outdoor recreation market. Focused on the RV, Marine, and Camping sectors, Camco's influence in these industries is significant, as it continues to lead the charge with a relentless pursuit of excellence and a commitment to delivering top-notch products and services.
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* Job Title:

** Senior Product Engineer
** Overview:
** Camco is investing in senior innovation engineering talent to expand its capacity to pursue category-defining, step-function new product development. This role is not primarily a sustaining engineering position — it is an innovation leadership role within an engineering team, responsible for originating, shaping, and executing on product concepts that extend Camco's portfolio into new territory.

The Senior Product Engineer is a rare profile: someone who can operate fluently across the full innovation spectrum — from pure conceptual problem-solving to industrial design to technical execution to consumer experience thinking — and who has the credibility and craft to own complex product development from thesis through production release. This person is a builder of new things, not a maintainer of existing ones.

The role sits within a team that includes strong technical executors and CAD specialists. The Senior Product Engineer compliments the innovation leadership layer — the ability to see what doesn't exist yet and know how to bring it to life.
** Key Responsibilities
**** Innovation Leadership & Concept Development
*** Own the conceptual development of assigned innovation projects — from proof of concept to a technically validated design ready for engineering execution
* Identify hybrid innovation opportunities — existing technologies, platforms, or manufacturing processes that can be applied or adapted to new use cases, categories, or consumer problems
* Lead concept exploration through sketching, physical prototyping, 3D modeling, and consumer-use scenario development — moving fluidly between ideation and technical validation
* Collaborate with Product Management to ensure innovation concepts are grounded in commercial viability: the right consumer, the right price point, the right competitive position
** Industrial Design & Consumer Experience
*** Design to the consumer experience — understanding how a product will be encountered, purchased, unboxed, installed, used, and serviced by an RV consumer in real conditions
* Apply industrial design sensibility to form, ergonomics, and aesthetic decisions — Camco products must be functionally excellent and commercially compelling at retail
* Model and evaluate consumer use cases: how the target consumer will interact with the product across its full lifecycle, including edge cases and failure modes
* Identify and…