Responsibilities And Duties
- Contributes as a team member on development projects carrying out assigned responsibilities in a timely, diligent, safe, and professional manner. May act as a project leader.
- Supports the organization's intellectual property strategy by documenting data and independent, unique and patentable ideas that result from experimentations and concept generation activities.
- Leads the design and development of new products and product engineering and applies engineering best practices and tools.
- Ensures quality in a product's design for usability, reliability, functionality, marketability, and manufacturability.
- Supports the development of products through the product design criteria, product function and customer needs.
- Keeps abreast of latest developments in process technology. This includes molding, automated assembly, packaging. Research new processes or materials processing technologies for possible new product development.
- Leads product design verification and validation to satisfy product and customer requirement.
- Applies Design to Cost and Design for Manufacturability methods to support project in achievement of project objectives.
- Contributes to assembly and maintenance of the Design History File (DHF).
- Ensures proper design and development documentation. Creates new SOPs and maintains all relevant SOPs to ensure strict compliance of R&D functional operation.
- Follows WATTS Global Product Development System.
Education
- Bachelor or above, majored in mechanical engineering, Mechatronics or HVAC.
Management
- N/A
Qualifications
- Bachelor/ master's degree in mechanical engineering, Mechatronics or related engineering discipline.
- 5~10 years' relevant experience in iron, SS (stainlessness steel) and Brass valve, balance valve (STBV,PICV,DPBV)is plus, design and development with a solid understanding of the product standards and codes.
- Experience in high volume manufacturing and assembly processes
- Demonstrated hands-on experience with Design Control procedures.
- Experience in a Phase-Gate development process.
- Experience directly applying DOE and GD&T. Knowledge of statistical methods and analysis.
- Experience in designing production equivalent rapid prototypes.
- Proficient in 3D CAD software (Inventor or SolidWorks preferred). Understanding of CAE tools (FEA, CFD, etc.)
- Demonstrated knowledge of applied mechanical engineering in product design and evaluation.
- Able to identify, break down and solve a variety of difficult technical problems.
- Team player with excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Proven ability to work independently with a minimum of supervisor input.
- Disciplined and well-organized in documentation (plans, requirements, drawings, design reviews, and test methods).
- Fluency in English