Kennedy Valve-Product Design Engineer

SUMMARY

The Product Engineer is responsible for providing engineering knowledge support and maintaining all applicable data and systems relating to product specifications. This position requires continuous involvement in the areas of product development testing maintaining and enhancing current designs. The successful candidate will enjoy working in a team environment interacting daily with sales personnel engineering and manufacturing. An equally important part of this role is the continuous and direct involvement with shop floor operations and the products manufactured by Kennedy Valve.

ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES

• On a routine basis the engineer is required to work on the shop floor and with shop floor personnel in various areas and includes assembling testing and painting products (production work).

• This role also requires the use of hand and power tools to disassemble various products in order to ensure proper fit form function and retrieve and measurements needed to produce drawings.
• Many products and assembled systems require 3rd party inspection and it is the engineers role to assist in the assembly process and ensure that said systems meet the requirements including specific types of testing (I.e. Holiday Free Paint).
• Tasked in developing product drawings that are suitably geared toward and in line with current manufacturing processes and lean efforts.
• Travel may be required for product related field issues and/or agency testing

Qualifications :

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum of a BS in Mechanical Engineering.
• Have extensive valve or mechanical construction experience.
• Interpretation drawings including individual parts assembly customer site drawings and sketches.
• Solid knowledge and experience in the use of CAD systems (3D modeling and 2D drawings)
• Familiarity with reading plans and specifications is desired.

REQUIRED TRAITS

• Team player
• Work in a fast-paced environment
• Strong attention to detail.

Additional Information :

LIMITATIONS AND DISCLAIMER

The above job description is meant to describe the general nature and level of work being performed; it is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills required for the position.

Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform other job-related duties requested by their supervisor in compliance with Federal and State Laws.

Requirements are representative of the minimum levels of knowledge skills and/or abilities. To perform this job successfully the employee must possess the abilities or aptitudes to perform each duty proficiently.

Kennedy Valve Co. is an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V. We maintain a drug-free workplace and reserve the right to perform substance abuse testing. McWane is a Federal VEVRAA contractor and an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all employment practices. McWane will not discriminate against any applicant for employment because of their race color religion sex national origin age sexual orientation disability veteran or service member status marital status citizenship status (In IL - sex including same sex ancestry order of protection status physical or mental disability military status pregnancy unfavorable discharge status genetic information) (In IA - gender identity) (In CA - gender identity or expression and genetic information) or any other category protected by federal state or local law.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
McWane is a Federal VEVRAA contractor and an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all employment practices. McWane will not discriminate against any applicant for employment because of their race color religion sex national origin age sexual orientation disability veteran or service member status marital status citizenship status (In IL - sex including same sex ancestry order of protection status physical or mental disability military status pregnancy unfavorable discharge status genetic information) (In IA - gender identity) (In CA- gender identity or expression and genetic information) or any other category protected by federal state or local law.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time