Staff Engineer, Kitchen Faucets - KOHLER

Staff Engineer, Kitchen Faucets

Work Mode: Hybrid

Location: Hybrid at Kohler, WI

Opportunity
The
primary responsibility of the Sr. Project Engineer – Kitchen Faucets role is to
deliver innovative consumer products as part of a highly collaborative
cross-functional team. The Engineer must combine creativity, strong technical
skills, collaborative leadership, and business acumen to take designs from
initial concept through to production.
We
are looking for someone who:

• Brings a positive
  approach and collaborates with cross functional teams including marketing,
  program management, industrial design, and manufacturing operations to
  deliver projects on time, within budget.
• Is passionate about
  innovation and independently motivated to explore concepts and build
  transformative products.
• Has demonstrated skill
  in ideation and creative design. Candidates with strong interest in CAD
  design and advanced prototyping are preferred.
• Exhibits strong
  mechanical aptitude and has established individual engineering design
  process.
• Understands
  manufacturing constraints for a broad range materials and process
  including: casting, forging, stamping, injection molding, welding,
  machining, fabricating, tube bending, hydroforming, plating, etc.
• Is confident evaluating
  complex designs and leverages creative problem solving skills to
  continually optimize.
• Can competently
  coordinate work across regions and cultures as part of a global
  engineering organization.

Specific
Responsibilities
Create

• Partner with Industrial
  Design and Product Marketing to develop product specifications using
  consumer research, market data, and sales feedback.
• Study competitive
  products and understand current warranty metrics to benchmark against new
  product designs.
• Provide high-level
  feasibility analysis on initial product concepts.

Refine

• Develop and refine
  concepts using 3D modeling software (Creo), FEA, and CFD.
• Leverage our world
  class on-site prototyping and test lab capabilities to create physical
  prototypes to validate product features.
• Validate product value
  through consumer and/or human experience research.
• Work with our internal
  manufacturing team as well as suppliers to balance cost, performance,
  quality, and project timing.

Implement

• Perform engineering
  calculations, tolerance stacks, and develop detailed technical drawings,
  incorporating engineering standards and GD&T.
• Optimize design using
  DfM (Design for Manufacturing) principles to ensure reliable, stable, and
  efficient mass production.
• Ensure regulatory
  compliance through careful product verification test planning.
• Support manufacturing
  ramp up by providing on-site feedback during pre-production builds.

Skills/Requirements

• Bachelor of science
  degree in mechanical engineering from an ABET accredited program.
• Minimum of 6 years of
  mechanical engineering experience.
• Demonstrate a working
  knowledge of CAD modeling.
• International and
  domestic travel as needed.

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