LOCATION: CORPORATE & CONROE OFFICE
POSITION SUMMARY/OBJECTIVE:
This position will be for a design in the product engineering team that drives innovative designs and new development projects for the company. These projects will consist of various tasks including monitoring or establishing procedures, standards, specifications, etc. The candidate will initially interface with all manufacturing sites to become knowledgeable in UTEX products, materials, designs, and capabilities. The candidate will have a strong integration with manufacturing and be expected to have document control duties in compliance with departmental processes.
The candidate will actively work with dedicated project management to ensure tasks are completed in a timely fashion.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Work with manufacturing, customer service, sales, and engineering teams at each site to provide customer solutions.
- Be comfortable working in a manufacturing environment to support implementation of engineering designs and address product.
- Produce engineering drawings and supportive project documentation for release.
- Project documentation shall include establishing scope of work, recording design iterations, integrating cross-functional teams in project delivery, reporting to upper management on barriers to success, financial and logistical implications of project commitment, testing requirements and recording, and others.
- Assist in providing product pricing for quotes and working with suppliers to establish requirements and quality.
- Operate document control functions to maintain quality of work, integrity of design control, as well as process and ISO compliance.
- Provide direct assessment and generate documentation for engineering change notices (ECNs), tracking completion of the process across multiple site functions and supporting evaluation and implementation of the changes.
- Assist with quality non-conformance documentation as necessary for engineering disposition.
- Will work on multiple product lines, including sustaining, engineered to order, and new product development projects.
- Conducting product or material research when required.
- Utilizing company ERP software to support evaluation and setup of requirements to drive production.
- Knowledge of rubber manufacturing and machining, plastics, and urethanes preferred.
- SolidWorks background essential, AutoCAD knowledge desirable.
- Collaborates and works well with others in a dynamic and team spirited environment.
- Manages design integrity well through diligent attention to detail and assist the design team with original thoughts and new design concepts, as needed.
Other Requirements
- Experience with API testing (6A, STD 64, PR2F, etc.,)
- Experience with material characterization and evaluation equipment: Instron or MTS frames, hardness testers, DMA, DSC, TGA, TMA, FTIR, X-ray, MDR/RPA, etc.
- Experience with metrology equipment like optical comparators, basic CMM skills, calipers, profilometers, microscopes, 3D scanners, etc., to evaluate material and products as necessary.
- Strong FEA simulation background, concentration on structural mechanics: experience with plasticity on metals, hyperelasticity on elastomers, fatigue evaluation, viscoelasticity, composites, wear, etc. CFD experience is a plus, but not highly sought after. Utex currently employs Ansys and Solidworks Simulation, but open to experience with other FEA software (Abaqus, COMSOL, MSC Marc, etc.).
- Strong R&D and testing experience: proficiency with LabVIEW or equivalent (has developed automation, control and data acquisition projects). Experienced in setting up experiments, developing test procedures, identifying key test variables, plumbing high pressure equipment, setting up electrical hardware, selecting and sourcing pumps, solenoids, valves, strain gages, pressure transducers, thermocouples, heat exchangers, etc.
- Experience with data analysis. Sets up scripts for processing collected data from automated tests using tools such as Matlab, Python, Excel, etc.
Required Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in a related technical field and 0 - 3 years of experience. Preferred Mechanical Engineer, Material Science Engineer, Chemistry or similar.
- Master’s degree or PhD in relevant field (see Bachelor’s requirement as guidance; not required but add values).
Work Environment
This job operates primarily in an office environment within a manufacturing location. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers and filing cabinets. Provided Personal Protective Equipment, as well as steel-toed boots or shoes, must be worn at all times in the shop. Occasional field and customer visits require also working in a hands-on environment. Hands on work also increases in a plant environment when building and testing prototype designs.
Travel
This position may require travel up to 30% of the time and most often to other UTEX locations, but also to customer locations (field visits).
