at Snap-on in Lincolnshire, Illinois, United States
Job Description
OverviewPerforms assignments supporting project teams in the design and development of products. Work on a project team with minimal supervision. Requires broad technical skills, good product knowledge, and some understanding of the product development process.
KEY ACCOUNTIBILITY
• Provides technical support to all members of a project team. Involved in building, testing, and documenting new designs as well as support of existing products.
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Manage time and deliverables with minimal supervision to meet project team objectives.
• Build designs under the supervision of the design team.
• Assist in product validation testing as directed.
• Assist in preparation of documentation necessary to develop and release new designs. Learn and understand Company design and release processes.
• Participate in engineering proto builds along with Operations, Development Engineers, and Contract manufacturers.
• Assist in the debugging of prototype designs as well as troubleshooting current products.
• Procure component parts as directed by design team.
• Prepare information for design reviews.
• Prepare design documentation required for product release. Maintain Bills of Material and cost estimates during the development process.
• Follow company policies and procedures.
• Other duties as assigned.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS/WORK ENVIRONMENT
• This is primarily an office based position requiring significant amount of PC use.
• Light assembly and some heavy lifting.
• May work on vehicles or in a shop environment.
• Some travel required.
QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS
Education:
• Associates degree or equivalent education or equivalent experience.
Years of Experience:
• Minimum 1 year relevant work experience.
Other Requirements:
• Ability to work directly with Customer Service, Operations and Sales on product related issues
• Ability to use schematic capture tools to maintain existing schematics, or create new schematics.
• Capable of determining root cause analysis of issues on designs of moderate complexity with assistance of design engineers.
• Basic understanding of how our products are used by our Customers. Capable of demonstrating use of products.
• Familiar with current manufacturing processes and the hardware and software testing tools associated with them.
• Assist in determining cause of Customer complaints and product returns.
• Can utilize structured troubleshooting processes such as 8D.
KEY COMPETENCIES
• Problem solving with good analytical skills.
• Works well in a diverse technical team.
• Learns new technical skills quickly.
