Development Research Engineer Specialist

DESCRIPTION:

- This is a technical contributor role on research and development projects representing a shift from learning and assisting to fully contributing in assignments that are broader, more complex, and challenging in nature.
- The key role of this research engineering position is to move from learning and assisting others to fully implementing solutions.
- Ability to gather relevant information, compare and contrast data, identify relationships, and predict and manage failures is critical.
- Challenges include challenging the status quo and championing new initiatives, collaborating with team members and other teams, and keeping abreast of advancing technology.
- Decisions may affect the work group or project team, suppliers, multiple units, and both internal and external customers, and these decisions have significant impact on warranty, total cost of non-quality, customer perception, costs, sales, and the leveraging of technology.
- Individuals may have multiple assignments during their tenure.
- Assignments may require the Engineer to review the work of technicians or other support personnel, provide technical advice to individuals at various levels in the organization and work with another unit or team.
- Assignments will become more complex and require the Engineer to assume a significant role, either as an individual contributor or as part of a project team, with increasing emphasis on analysing, identifying, and applying engineering techniques to solve problems and make recommendations.

KEY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

- Perform needs analysis and initiate ideas
- Evaluate new products, processes, or systems
- Communicate results to customers, suppliers, team members, and other business units
- Contribute to the design of new products and processes
- Perform product and process maintenance
- Collaborate with and support other engineers, managers, marketing personnel, customers and suppliers
- Keep up to date on new technologies, and represent the company externally.
- Research, design, develop, manufacture, and test concepts in supply chain management.
- Research and analyze customer requirements and specifications to determine time and cost feasibility to complete projects.
- Investigate and analyze the supporting processes and data requirements.
- Implement operating procedures, resolve system malfunctions, and provide technical information.

SKILLS:

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:

- Bachelor's degree in engineering, business or supply chain required.
- Ten plus years experience required.

SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES:

- Creativity, verbal and written communication skills, analytical and problem solving ability.
- Team player and detail oriented.
- Displays attributes of a critical thinker and leverages innovative ideas.
- Advanced ability to make sketches, engineering drawings and common computations.
- Advanced ability to read and interpret blueprints, technical drawing, schematics and computer generated reports.
- Previous experience with computer applications and software related to engineering field.
- Must be familiar with Search Tree and Ant Colony Optimization methods
- Must have 1 - 3 years previous experience with supply network modelling and optimization
- Must have experience with C++, Tableau, and Jaxess development