Brazil onlyWe're looking for a Design Engineer to join our team.
Key Responsibilities
Customer Requirements and Objective Definition
- Translate customer CAD data, prints, specifications, and RFQs into measurable manufacturing objectives.
- Review the existing NetSuite project record to understand scope and deliverables.
- Develop concept proposals and manufacturable design options.
- Present concepts to customers and outside sales representatives.
- Document all design assumptions and constraints.
- Prepare complete manufacturing cost estimates.
- Work cross-functionally with Strategic Sourcing, Tooling Engineers, and Process Technicians.
- Identify cost reduction opportunities through design optimization.
- Convert approved concepts into prototype-ready designs.
- Provide tooling engineers with prototype tooling models and necessary design data. Generate sample requests for the sample coordinator.
- Work with the Engineering Manager to verify design intent and ensure appropriate liaison inspection of prototypes.
- Support prototype and pattern builds and respond to design questions during and outside U.S. business hours when required.
- Communicate with customers and outside sales to secure prototype sample approvals. Incorporate feedback into updated designs.
- Update the design for production tooling.
- Provide tooling-ready models, issue sample requests, and support customer approval cycles.
- Partner with the Engineering Manager and assigned liaisons to verify samples meet design intent.
Production Release and ERP Documentation
- After pre-production approval, release the complete production package including final drawings, Bills of Material, and Routings that meet KFI standards.
- Ensure documentation accuracy, completeness, and alignment with ISO 9001:2015 quality requirements.
- Record all project hours in the NetSuite Project record in a timely and accurate manner.
- Complete and maintain ISO 9001:2015 project records and maintain within EPDM project folder. Ensure hours spent on each project are properly logged in the NetSuite Project Record.
- CWSA or CWSP SolidWorks certification
- Demonstrated experience designing thin or heavy gauge thermoformed products
- Exceptional SolidWorks proficiency with strong surfacing and complex modeling skills
- Experience working in SolidWorks PDM Professional (EPDM)
- Ability to create Assembly Items, Inventory Items, Bills of Material, and Routings in NetSuite
- Proven experience preparing manufacturing cost estimates
- Proficient with Microsoft Office applications including Teams, Excel and SharePoint, with the ability to collaborate, share files, and communicate effectively in a remote environment
- Experience working within an ISO 9001:2015 environment and following established quality documentation processes
- Strong understanding of DFM principles for thermoforming including draft, radii, sag, cooling, shrinkage, trimming access, and tool constraints
- Experience collaborating with teams in the United States and Mexico
- Automotive OEM exposure
- Experience with tooling, patterns, and fixture design for thermoformed products
- Basic familiarity with welded metal components (approximately 5 percent of workload)
- Advanced EPDM or EPDM administrative training
Work Environment + Language Requirements
- Global remote position
- Requires at least 3 hours of overlap with U.S. Central Time each day
- Minimal or no travel
- Fluency in the English language; written and verbal proficiency (B2 level minimum on CEFR scale)
- Reports to a U.S.-based Engineering Manager
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