Product Designer
- Designs, creates, controls, and maintains engineering documents used as tools to effectively transfer information (blueprints, forms, etc.) from customer to manufacturing
- Designs new products and modifies existing products to meet customer specifications in a cost effective manner within manufacturing capabilities.
- Develops material and labor cost quotations by researching vendors, product cost history, processes, and gathering information from plant personnel
- Creates and maintains databases for product histories (materials, timestudy, attributes)
- Creates and maintains bill of material and routing documentation
- Performs engineering calculations necessary to estimate material requirements, shrink allowances, and trigonometric and geometric relationships
- Develops purchase requests for specialty tooling or materials
- Visits customer and vendor sites
- Actively participates in TQM projects