R&D Engineer

Job Title: R&D Engineer
Job Location: Mason, OH
Job Duration: 4-5 Months (possibility of extension)
Payrate: $60.00 - $71.51/ hr. on w2
 
Job Description:

• Meeting with business management, marketing, and the R&D team to discuss product ideas.
• Conducting market research and evaluating similar products and their functions.
• Collaborating with the engineering and marketing department on product feasibility.
• Redesigning existing products to enhance functionality or reduce costs.
• Creating design projects and specification sheets.
• Presenting product designs to management and stakeholders.
• Overseeing the engineering of product prototypes.
• Testing prototype products for functionality, ease-of-use, and longevity.
• Resolving product issues.

Execute with Excellence:

• Previous role experience within Initiative Leadership, Project Management, Marketing Specialist, or Work Process Ownership.
• Demonstration and Implementation of work processes, workflows, working with Multifunctional Resources/Teams.
• Acts as a business owner with great sense of urgency and focus to manage multiple projects/priorities with the organization and attention to detail.
• High Capacity to lead multiple projects at any given period.

Lead with Courage:

• Ability to demonstrate Leadership to set direction/priority for others, hold others accountable to deadlines, develop execution plans, and work collectively across functions and suppliers.
• Can manage expectations and engagement across all business functions.

Embraces Change:

• Is open and flexible/adaptable to change by seeking out and readily accepting new ideas, experiences, skills, opportunities, and new work processes.

Communication and Collaboration:

• Excellent Communications/Collaboration skills to lead meetings, listening to feedback/input to put into clear actions, written updates to Initiative teams/leadership, peers and escalate help requests/issues.
• Strong Collaboration with internal and external partners.

Problem-solving:

• Strong Problem-solving skills to quickly identify and resolve issues to root cause, assess risk and determine approach/next steps to mitigate.

Champion Productivity:

• Demonstration of skills/experience to analyze data for utilization in results reporting (written/oral), gap analysis, loss analysis and work process improvement.
• Is capable to demonstrate mastery within Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Office 365 Tools.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Ability to quickly take direction from client employees and determine the right testing to execute for a project given guidance from client.
• Viewing specifications and standards in client systems to determine parameters for testing.
• Interfacing with other client functions, packaging suppliers, or 3rd party testing labs that are involved in the testing.
• A good base knowledge in key manufacturing processes (blow-molding, injection molding, etc.).
• Glass Injection Moldings.
• Learning Plans.
• Overseeing the production process.

Skills Needed:

• Leadership.
• Embraces Change/Agile.
• Collaborative.
• Develops Others.
• Operates with Discipline.
• Business Mastery.
• Technical Mastery.

Job Types:

• Job Type I (Level 1) = 0-2 years experience.
• Job Type II (Level 2) = 3-5 years’ experience.
• Job Type III (Level 3) = 5-10 years’ experience.
• Job Type IV (Level 4) = 10+ years’ experience.
• Job Type V (Level 5) = 20+ year’s experience.