Southworth, located in Falmouth, Maine, has an immediate opening for a New Product Design Engineer.

Southworth is the world’s largest manufacturer of ergonomic material handling equipment for vertical lifting and work positioning. Our products are designed to improve worker productivity while reducing the potential for worker injuries. Anywhere that workers are lifting and positioning items, handling pallets, working with parts in containers or transporting loads in a factory or warehouse, Southworth has a product to make the job faster, safer, and, easier.

We realize that our success is a direct result of the efforts of our talented and dedicated employees. To ensure continued success we take extra care to make sure that careers at Southworth are financially, intellectually, emotionally, and socially rewarding for all. Join our dynamic team of engineers, designing machinery to make work faster, safer, and easier!

The New Product Development Engineer plays a pivotal role in the innovation and creation of new products. This position requires a blend of technical expertise, creative problem-solving skills, and the ability to collaborate effectively with various departments, both domestically and abroad. This position is based at Southworth International Group, Inc. (SIGI) headquarters in Falmouth, Maine.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Expert level knowledge of machine design, statics, dynamics and hydraulic principles
• Designing for Manufacturability (DFM), optimized to allow for mass producibility
• Control product costs through design considerations for lowest cost materials and DFM approaches
• Perform complex design calculations to insure proper function and safety of specialized machinery
• Partnerships with Marketing, Chief Innovation Officer and Sales Engineers to create new products and services for our customers
• Full ownership through design process
  • Prototyping, testing, design iterations and final release support
  • Aid in generating all documentation for new designs (Marketing materials, Owner Manuals, etc)
  • Installation & startup support
• Focused on designing unique units not based on prior efforts and solutioned to meet customer’s needs
• Project Management skill sets required to work effectively within the group and with external resources to meet stage gate requirements and milestones
• Practices continuous improvement to improve own processes and workflows
• Provide mentorship and guidance to Engineering Core when NPD units become available
• Engineer and design new products and/or modifications to existing products from a set of written specifications and following established professional practices and procedures for design engineering
• Creating detailed design drawings, specifications, and prototypes using computer-aided design (Solidworks) software and other design tools.
• Able to minimize errors and interferences in design to control costs
• Establish and maintain company mechanical, electrical and hydraulic design standards and policies
• Support Manufacturing with site visits, challenges on the production floor during assembly, and timely completion of ECRs
• Perform inspection and testing on manufactured machines as part of product development or analysis, as well as failure analysis

Qualifications – Skills and Experience:

• Minimum 5 years of relevant New Product Development experience.
• 5+ years 3D CAD
• Experience drafting parts and assemblies using industry standard techniques and GD&T
• Thorough understanding and ability to perform calculations of Statics, Dynamics, Strength of Materials, and Machine Design
• Thorough knowledge of hydraulic and pneumatic power systems, electro-mechanical systems, and fabricated steel weldments
• Experience with sheet metal and CNC cutting and forming (Maybe these are different bullets)
• Experience using FEA to evaluate design integrity
• Able to work effectively and accurately against deadlines and time constraints
• Ability to self-manage for several weeks at a time
• Ability to describe technical concepts to laypeople
• Ability to communicate openly and effectively with others
• Creative problem-solving skills with regards to machine design
• Continuous process improvement (Lean Six Sigma)
• Ability to manage and balance time effectively amongst design and process improvement projects

Personal characteristics:

• High integrity, with the ability to balance client and company needs to ensure desired outcomes.
• High expectations on results and proactive problem solving.
• Optimistic with a can-do-attitude with the ability to work well in a fast-paced and changing environment. Works well under pressure.

The purpose of this job specification is to outline the general responsibilities and qualifications for the New Product Design Engineer. This is not an exhaustive list, and other responsibilities may be assigned as needed.

We’re an Equal Opportunity Employer: You’ll receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status or disability.

We’re only hiring those authorized to work in the United States. We do not currently sponsor immigration visas.

SIGI does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms or employment agencies. Any unsolicited resume will become the property of SIGI.