Product Engineer

Position: Product Engineer I
Position Summary

Achieving company cost and customer service objectives by ensuring timely and efficient completion of design responsibilities for a product.

Primary focus on design and manufacturing thermoplastic hose, tubing and fittings

Scope/ Supervision and Interaction:

Interface with customers, Parker Sales, Product Managers, Purchasing, Manufacturing and Quality. Perform design responsibilities as assigned by Management with minimal supervision.

PLEASE NOTE This role is not eligible for Company provided relocation assistance or work visa sponsorship.

Essential Functions

• Prepare organized and detailed information on design calculations, stress analysis, and product descriptions for standards and special products.
• Prepare and/or participate in the preparation, checking and releasing of design layouts, and detail drawings.
• Coordinate lab testing as it relates to the product being designed. Initiate, evaluate, and analyze results of test programs on assigned projects.
• Design products utilizing CAD, customer proposal drawings, customer design intent information, and design concept drawings.
• Support Engineering, Marketing, Estimating, Purchasing, Manufacturing, Technical Service, Customer Service and Quality as required.
• Apply analysis methods (Value Analysis, Design of Experiments, FEA, SPC, FMEA, etc.), as required.
• Review and approve literature and technical information for assigned products, as required.
• Apply lean principles to all processes.
• Must continuously maintain the highest degree of customer service, throughput, quality, cost reduction and people productivity.

Qualifications

• B.S. in mechanical or other relevant engineering field.
• 0-2 years of experience with engineering activities.
• Experience with thermoplastics, thermosets or fluoropolymer design or manufacturing is a plus
• Skilled in the use of CAD software such as AutoCAD, Pro-Engineer and/or other similar and relevant applications.
• Able to interpret technical catalogs.
• Computer literate in Windows environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Able to plan, organize and administer multiple development tasks concurrently.
• Background in analysis methods (Value Analysis, Design of Experiments, FEA, SPC, FMEA, etc.) a plus.
• Computer Aided Design experience with 3D modeling a plus.
• May require occasional travel to customers or other Parker Hannifin facilities.

The above description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities. It is intended to describe the general nature of the position.

Parker Hannifin

Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies. For more than a century, we’ve enabled engineering breakthroughs that make energy cleaner, transportation safer, medical treatments more effective, and manufacturing more efficient.

With empowered team members in more than 40 countries, Parker serves customers across aerospace & defense, energy, HVAC & refrigeration, in-plant & industrial equipment, off-highway and transportation.

Our scale is global, but our purpose is personal. We enable breakthroughs that improve lives, strengthen communities and create a brighter future.

Our Purpose — Enabling Engineering Breakthroughs that Lead to a Better Tomorrow — comes to life through our people-first culture where teamwork drives performance, inclusion fuels innovation and growth is encouraged. This environment fosters collaboration and empowers team members from engineering and manufacturing to finance, supply chain, human resources, information technology and beyond.

By combining deep expertise with an entrepreneurial spirit, we help customers succeed in markets that demand performance, reliability, and sustainability.

As we look to the future, Parker is advancing initiatives in energy efficiency and sustainability while developing the next generation of talent and leaders to engineer a better tomorrow.