Product Engineer

Description

For over 77 years, Zero-Max has been a leading manufacturer of high-quality motion control and power transmission components used in machines across numerous industries around the world. Since our beginning, Zero-Max has earned a reputation for delivering high-quality, customizable, premium products that improve our customers’ results.

We hire highly motivated and talented people who are committed to being responsive to our customers’ needs, holding themselves accountable to our customers and each other, and conducting business with honesty and integrity.

Located on scenic grounds in Plymouth, MN, Zero-Max offers a newly remodeled, clean, and climate-controlled production facility and office environment. We are proud of the longevity and dedication of our employees and are committed to providing a positive work environment along with a competitive compensation and benefits package
, including:

• Robust health and wellness benefits
• 401k match: 100% payroll match up to 6% with 4% quarterly profit sharing
• Healthy work/life balance
• Company-wide bonus program
• Generous time off
• Clean, safe, climate controlled, low noise shop environment
• Continuous improvement culture

Zero-Max is currently recruiting for a Product Engineer responsible for coordinating activities to design, manufacture, process and test components, products, and systems. This includes developing new products and modifying pre-engineered products for customer applications. You will provide technical support to Sales and Marketing, Production, Manufacturing, Purchasing, and Quality Control.

• Contribute to the development of new products, bring own perspective to conceptualization, create drawings with parts lists and methods of manufacturing
• Conduct peer reviews of engineering designs, drawings and other engineering documentation needed for manufacturing against customer orders for prototypes
• Perform design optimization studies, motion studies and other PC-based simulations
• Product performance test plans, develop test setups, participate in testing of prototypes
• Collaborate with Quality, Production and Tooling at product launch and throughout the entire product lifecycle

• Analyze engineering specifications, performance requirements, and related data and drawings to determine feasibility of application, product selection, and design scope
• Create preliminary designs, estimate manufacturing costs, request pricing for purchased components
• Confirm production costs and details design, contribute to testing of special products
• Check the quality of own designs, perform peer design reviews
• Provide after sale support with troubleshooting and with evaluation of returned product

• Create and maintain engineering data with item masters and with fabrication methods
• Update engineering drawings, specifications, item masters and manufacturing methods upon customer’s feedback and requests, to address issues or to reduce production costs
• Document engineering changes, selects a correct Engineering Change Management approach and coordinates change routings by using the Engineering Change Order
• Identify component features Critical to Quality and collaborate with Quality in the development of Inspection Plans and the dispositioning on non-conform parts
• Create and maintain engineering specifications and assembly instructions
• Create and present conclusions from design, analyses of data and test reports

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related technical degree with a minimum of 5 years of engineering…