Product Development Technician

Founded in 1993, Timberline Manufacturing provides electrical contract manufacturing with a specialization in wire harness assembly, control panels, and electronic assembly. Timberline is 100% employee-owned since 2012. Along with employee ownership, we provide opportunities for advancement, professional growth and financial rewards. From the moment you enter the building, we greet you as a person, not a number.

We're not the first to say it, but we certainly mean it - our employees are what makes Timberline so great. That's why we're an employee-owned company.

Description:

The Product Development Technician supports Product Development Engineers in the development, release, validation, and maintenance of products. This hands-on role assists with prototype builds, testing, measurements, documentation, CAD/drawing updates, BOM maintenance, and engineering change activities. The technician works under the direction of Product Development Engineering and helps convert engineering requirements into accurate, manufacturable, and well-documented products.

• Support Product Development Engineers with new product development, product changes, and lifecycle activities.
• Coordinate with FAI build to collect information on build improvements, documentation changes, and fixture requirements.
• Assist with product validation and qualification testing; validating testing requirements, collect data, document results, and communicate issues or unexpected results.
• Perform dimensional inspections, measurements, and basic technical evaluations using appropriate measuring and test equipment.
• Revise engineering drawings, build documents, BOMs, work instructions, test documentation, and other engineering records as assigned.
• Maintain accurate engineering documentation, including revision control, test records, photographs, build notes, and supporting data.
• Design and create 3D printed fixtures, assembly aids, and tools to support production.
• Assist engineers with engineering change implementation, including part/BOM updates, documentation changes, prototype verification, and coordination with affected functions.
• Support investigations of product-related quality issues by gathering data, inspecting product, reproducing conditions, and assisting with root-cause and corrective-action activities including detailed deconstruction of potential failures.
• Provide manufacturability feedback based on prototype, FAI, and production observations and identify opportunities to improve quality, cost, and ease of assembly.
• Utilize engineering maintenance facilities for product analysis and coordinate with external companies for more advanced requirements.
• Follow applicable safety, quality, document-control, and configuration-control requirements.
• Assist with tickets involving dimensional changes, material changes, product performance, new part creation, BOM updates, design corrective actions, prototype work, and validation activities.
• Gather information, complete assigned technical work, and document results so the Product Development Engineer can make and approve design decisions.
• Escalate conditions that may affect product form, fit, function, safety, compliance, or customer requirements to the responsible engineer.
• Additional duties and responsibilities as assigned.

• Associate degree, technical diploma, or equivalent experience in engineering technology, manufacturing, mechanical/electrical technology, or a related technical field preferred.
• Hands-on experience in manufacturing, engineering support, prototyping, testing, or a technical production environment preferred.
• Ability to read and interpret…