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Sr. Project Engineer - New Haven, CT Area

DESCRIPTION:

We're looking for a highly motivated Sr. Project Engineer to join our Product Development Team. This OEM customer-facing position is responsible for leading multiple engineering projects, including Customer driven new product development, cost reduction, and quality improvement projects.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Successfully manage high volume, custom engineered and OEM customer driven residential water filtration projects.
• Directly interface with customers during the product development process
• Manage full cycle Product Development deliverables for cross-functional teams.
• Oversee / Create customer drawings, specifications, packaging, product labels and retail packing.
• Participate in Filtration Technology training sessions.
• Identify product improvements utilizing VAVE, executing where applicable.
• Support Quality in conducting root cause analysis on returned products and complaints.
• Identify / coordinate performance and structural product testing per customer requirements.
• Review test data and create Engineering Reports.
• Communicate with internal (Sales, Marketing, Quality, Operations, Management) and external (Customers, Vendors) stakeholders.

BACKGROUND PROFILE:

• BS Degree in Engineering (Mechanical or Chemical preferred)
• 5+ years’ experience managing high volume product development projects.
• Filtration experience, preferably with water and respective media and vessels a plus.
• Regulatory testing, preferably NSF a plus.
• Competitive benchmarking and specification development
• Customer-facing experience is a high priority
• Concise communicator; both written and verbal.
• Proficient with the use of Quality, Lean, and Product Development tools (Stage Gate Process)
• Experience with high volume plastic injection molded parts
• CAD, preferably Solidworks or Creo Parametric
• Extensive knowledge of MS Project
• Experience with Epicor a plus.

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