Overall Purpose of the Role:
The Product Design Engineer is responsible for the design and development of hose products and solutions that
meet customer applications. This position designs elastomeric composite solutions as well as the tooling that is
needed to manufacture the products to meet customer requirements and maintain cost targets. The engineer will
have to demonstrate his thorough knowledge of the manufacturing process and hose expertise when designing
products for the customer.
Key Responsibilities:
• Design elastomeric composite hose products to meet customer specifications from concept, prototyping,
validation, and sustaining.
• Frequently reviews customer and industry design standards to ensure materials and performance
requirements are met throughout the life of the product.
• Create 2D & 3D Drawings of products, tools, and machinery, with specialized tolerancing.
• Creates cost estimates from geometrical formulations and labor estimates on new products and projects for
quoting new business.
• Supports manufacturing in tooling (repair, replace, and re-design)
• Follows engineering practices from concept, validation, to sustaining on all products, machines and process
implemented
• Documents processes to include but not limited to BOMs (Bill of Materials), ECN’s (Engineering Change
Notice) and DCNs (Document Change Notice) to maintain ISO/TS requirements.
• Part of a team that Performs FMEAs
• Works with management to evaluate cost improvement projects, improved manufacturing techniques and
automation methods
• Assists with installation, start up and qualification of machines, fixtures and tooling as needed to include IOQ
(Installation Operation Qualification) and PQ (Product Qualification)
• Assist with technician and operator training on new equipment, processes and procedures
• Implement Process Capability index (Cpk), Statistical Process Control (SPC) where appropriate and teach
associates within Purosil the basics of these techniques so as to allow utilization of these production
monitoring and improvement methods within the organization
• Actively supports the company’s safety goals
• Must be willing to travel as appropriate.