Electrical Design Engineer

Russ Hadick & Associates, Inc has exclusively partnered with a Fort Wayne, IN client, to help them search and qualify their Electrical Engineering opening. This person will be responsible for the design, development and manufacturing of the client’s products for commercial and military aerospace applications using Lean Manufacturing and Lean Product Development processes and tools. As well as New Product Development, sustaining engineering responsibilities fall under this position.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Design electronic and electro-mechanical products, specifying components and materials required to meet customer specifications for operation, reliability and performance.
• Design and fabricate custom test equipment to verify products meet specified customer operating requirements.
• Author test equipment operating procedures and product test procedures.
• Analyze, troubleshoot and define repair requirements for customer repair returns and in-process non-conformance conditions.
• Perform root cause failure analysis and provide short and long term corrective action plans.
• Support program management by analyzing customer specifications to develop product technical proposals and bills of material for quote submittals.
• Estimate non-recurring engineering and production labor times for producanufacturing routings, work instructions, procedures, illustrations and standard work sheets including time observations to execute the manufacturing of military and aerospace products in the least waste way.
• Participate in and/or lead product design process and reviews using Lean Product Development, Least Waste Way Project Planning and Value Stream Mapping.
• Engage in Continuous Improvement activities resulting in the Highest Quality, Lowest Cost and Shortest Lead-time.
• Execute annual Policy Deployment goals for the Engineering Department ensuring organizational commitments and goals are met.

Requirements

• Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and at least 10 years related experience or 15 years of experience in military/aerospace electronics.
• Experience in a Lean environment
• PCB Design Experience

Pluses for the position:

• Experience in Altium Designer or similar
• AutoCAD and SolidWorks experience is a plus