[Hiring] Senior Product Development Engineer, Commodities @NATIONAL INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND

Role Description

The Senior Product Development Engineer, Commodities leads the technical assessment and costing analysis as part of the new product development team. Supports Product Managers and the Business Development team throughout new product development efforts; primary responsibility is to drive the timely and accurate development of Product Development Plans (PDP).

• Provides informed manufacturing, technical and cost assistance to NIB associated agencies and NIB staff.
• Provides supplemental support to Product Management and Business Development team efforts as assigned.
• Communicates in a timely and effective manner regarding all assigned projects.
• Participates in and contributes to performance goals of assigned team.
• Coordinates with other members of Engineering Team if needed in developing methods to improve agency operations for items on the Procurement List.
• Provides written reports, including trip reports and reviews on government specifications.
• Work development engineering projects in business lines other than commodities as assigned.
• Performs Engineer Capability Reviews on associated agencies as assigned.
• Participates in other NIB projects such as RFA and CPI.
• Lead Technical Assessment & Review for Commodity Product Development.
• Serve on commodity development project teams as lead engineer for new products.
• Participates in project status meetings with all project team members to manage the progress of the project.
• Responsible for the development and performs technical review of the Project Development Plans (PDP).
• Train and provide additional assistance to agency personnel on the PDP development process.
• Provide NIB Product Management and AbilityOne Development teams with frequent status updates regarding in-process and completed PDPs.
• Provide support to agency staff in preparation for Pre-Award survey by a government survey team.
• Provide technical assistance and engineering support to associated agencies for new and existing products.
• Support agency and NIB staff through ad hoc research in support of specific projects.
• Evaluate requests for assignment (RFA) and provide recommendations to Product Managers/AbilityOne Development.
• Facilitate communications with other NIB engineers and staff.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or associated field from an accredited university or college; or at least eight years in related responsible positions if non-degreed.
• Strong people skills.
• Product cost analysis.
• Highly detailed, organized, and analytic.
• Project Development/Management knowledge.
• Experience and knowledge of current manufacturing processes and techniques.
• Previous experience in working with people who are blind is desirable.
• Eight or more years’ experience in related field, with emphasis on new product development, process design and start up, engineering and project management, resource allocation, budgeting, equipment, facility, and materials management, government procedures and regulations, and cost analysis.

Requirements

• Up to 30% travel required.
• Receives overall direct management from Program Director, Product Engineering.
• Works independently to complete assignments and requires limited supervision.
• Receives project-specific assignments from Product Managers as a member of the commodity development team.

Benefits

• NIB is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.