Engineer II, Product Development

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BSH Home Appliances Corporation – Top Employer US 2024 Tomorrow is our home. At BSH, People Matter. Bring your unique skills, capabilities, and experiences to our dynamic teams where your contributions will drive our innovation culture. We strive to be a workplace that values people and supports opportunities for continuous professional and personal growth. As a leading manufacturer of home appliance brands Bosch, Gaggenau, and Thermador, we prioritize having a consumer‑centric mindset and creating positive experiences for the consumer throughout all interactions with our products and services.

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New Bern, NC / Full Time

• Development Engineer functions in the Development Engineering Department in which the rapid development of highly innovative featured products is required. The primary responsibility of this position is to provide product design engineering expertise for cooking appliances that will positively affect and add value into our cooking products.
• Meet customer expectations by developing the appropriate products and proving proper operation in a timely manner.
• Assure effective engineering performance of projects and assignments and involve development, design, testing, manufacturability, serviceability.
• Act as a technical resource to work efficiently and effectively with other engineers within the working teams.
• Develop and design (3D‑CAD modeling and drawings) of components, systems, sub‑modules/modules and appliances according to the BSH product development process (PDP).
• Creation of requirement engineering specifications for parts and systems.
• Support product quality and safety during development and sustaining engineering of products according to internal guidelines and agency standards (UL/CSA, IEC).
• Work closely with the lab for testing of appliances, parts and assemblies for performance (e.g. air flow, noise, structural integrity, etc.), safety (e.g. temperature, electrical, sharp edges) and reliability (e.g. lifetime performance) according to test plans.
• Create and implement work and test procedures to ensure efficient and effective use of resources.
• Present and discuss test results to find solutions to problems.
• Creation, designing and development of parts, assemblies and appliances that are suitable for production and customer service.
• Implementation of new and changed parts into production, preparing Engineering Change Requests (CR).
• Develop and maintain BOMs.
• Work with others in projects/design reviews using the experience and knowledge gained.
• Plan and prepare for worst case studies.
• Release of newly developed or changed parts or appliances after testing (part release process).
• Support assembly line in Pre‑Pilot, Pilot, initial Production and continuing into Production.
• Ability to handle multiple projects with different scopes and requirements at the same time.
• Develop and maintain timeline of sub‑projects and project related tasks in accordance with BSH PDP and deadlines.
• Competitor analysis/benchmarking, target costing.
• Recognition of critical parts and processes, generation and analysis of tolerance studies.
• Oversee development and design solutions of other engineers within working groups and design projects. Follows timelines, task and requirement engineering fulfillment.
• Project management as far as task related (deadlines, driving tasks, managing assigned budgets/timelines).
• Performs work with a high degree of latitude.

• 5‑7 Years Product Development Experience in Home Appliance Industry – Required.
• 3‑5 Years BSH company experience - Preferred.
• Has a proven track record of Product Development experience in high‑end, complex, consumer‑based products.
• 3D CAD experience, preferable ‘NX’ (‘Unigraphics’).
• PLM/PDM knowledge, Team Center is preferable.
• Solid knowledge of FMEA, DFMA, DfR, target costing, risk management and other engineering tools.
• Strong communication, presentation and persuasion skills.
• Understanding and interpretation of standards and norms.
• Quick learner and self‑starter, good analytical skills using the specific engineering tools.
• Dependable with the ability…