REPORTS TO: Project Engineering - Manager
FLSA STATUS: Exempt
SUPERVISES: None
Benefits
- Salary range $10,000-$130,000 per year depending on experience
- High deductible medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance, including spouse and children (modest payroll deductions)
- 10 paid holidays per year
- Vacation - 3 weeks
- Supplemental leave (used in conjunction with Washington Paid Family & Medical Leave)
- 401K with matching company funds
- Quarterly bonus structure
- Tuition reimbursement
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Product Engineer serves as the primary technical and quality conduit between outside customers and internal sales, marketing, and production functions.
The Product Engineer’s essential functions include:
- Provide technical/metallurgical support to plant, inside sales, outside sales, and customer (direct and end user) personnel as required.
- Act as principal liaison between customer and plant on quality and technical issues.
- Develop and implement metallurgical practices as necessary to support efforts in product development, quality, recovery, etc.
- Provide quality assurance support. Disposition quarantined metal, claims, discrepant shipments, etc., as necessary in order to sustain "Best in Class" levels of quality and promote customer satisfaction.
- Perform manufacturing investigations on suspect product.
- Maintain compliance to customer and industry specifications. Ensure correct practices, sampling, testing, etc. are associated with each specification. Review incoming specifications for acceptability withing existing metallurgical practices.
- Initiate and execute qualification programs where appropriate, as determined by plant capabilities, customer requirements, and market justification.
- Review and authorize requests for recertification.
- Monitor and audit (as required) vendor activities.
- Comply with all Safety, Quality, and Environmental Regulations.