Senior Product Design Engineer, NPD

September 6

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SharkNinja

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Product design and technology company positively impacting people's lives every day in homes around the world.

Consumer Goods • Product Marketing

1001 - 5000

💰 Private Equity Round on 2017-08

Description

• Takes a senior role in the origination of novel concepts and technologies for our next generation of products. • Defines elegant but robust solutions to satisfy the products’ functional requirements. • Mentors more junior team members, with potential for line management if desired. Supports all team members and encourages their efforts. • Lead design studies (independently and in teams) to solve technical or consumer issues found in the development of a product. • Takes ownership of designs and is able to drive these through conception, CAD and visualisation, prototyping and verification, whilst consistently working at pace. • Is able to work both autonomously and collaboratively as required and able to switch approach quickly as technical solutions gain traction through the wider global engineering team. • Continuously evaluates and improves designs for cost-effectiveness, manufacturing improvements, increased quality and value to consumers. • Applies sound engineering standards to deliver real solutions. • Applies understanding & experience of high-volume manufacturing processes and materials to optimise designs. • Communicates effectively and professionally with colleagues. • Collaborates seamlessly with our U.S. and China based Product Development teams to ensure that great ideas make it through to production.

Requirements

• Degree level technical qualification, ideally Product Design Engineering, Mechanical or Industrial Design Engineering. • Typically 4-6 years proven experience in Mechanical/ Product Design environment. • Experience in the consumer goods household appliance space desirable • Experience in plastic manufacturing processes desirable • Experience in delivering real-world products to market • Ability to use SolidWorks and/or Creo CAD package(s) to a very high level. • Ability and drive to identify, solve, implement, and verify user and technical solutions autonomously. • “Hands-on” experience. Ability to independently build prototypes, develop test plans and execute against those plans in a lab environment, action and report the resulting data. • Flexible and collaborative - these are key to success at SharkNinja. • Positive attitude with an inquisitive nature. • Appreciation for electrical engineering, software and UX design helpful but not essential.