Senior Product Design Engineer-Firearms

Our client, a manufacturer of the lightest, most precise, and most accurate firearms in the industry, is seeking a forward-thinking Senior Design Engineer to build and manage the engineering team in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.Position Title: Senior Design EngineerReports to: Director of Product Management and EngineeringPosition SummaryApplies scientific principles to innovate, design, develop, test, and implement technologies, components, sub-systems, machines, tooling, and systems to ensure compliance with specifications, requirements, and customer guarantees across applicable operating conditions. Ensures novel ideas and implementations are captured and protected using applicable IP processes and tools.Required OutcomesDesigns major components or major portions of functional systems, technically advanced prototypes, and promotional or specific products using computer-aided design, computer-aided simulation, and other engineering tools & processes. Develops or improves products and facilitates manufacturing operations. Develops data and makes layouts, sketches, and notes for design proposals. Investigates pertinent design factors such as ease of manufacture, availability of materials and equipment, interchangeability, replaceability, strength-weight efficiency, and contractual specification requirements and cost. Designs, develops, and tests metallic and non-metallic structures or materials and their related fabrication processes for use in engineering designs.Manages new product development projects.What makes you great for this roleA resourceful and creative problem solver.Understands the scientific method instinctively and makes design decisions using experimentally derived data. Able to mentor and support a team of primarily intermediate to experienced design and manufacturing engineering professionals. (e.g., objectives and approaches to completion of work).Capable of setting objectives and guiding others on execution/approach for the achievement of operational results.Problems faced are difficult and involve consideration of multiple variables.Explains policies, practices, and procedures and will influence others through leadership by example.Job Duties & ResponsibilitiesPrepares new or revised designs, drawings, and working plans to improve products and facilitate manufacturing operations that meet agreed-upon product requirements.Creates and presents manufacturing plans using design for manufacturing reviews to ensure effectiveness, viability, and quality of manufacturing processes.Develops and executes test plans that ensure product designs meet all product performance, reliability, cosmetic, and quality requirements.Provides technical leadership and assists in training less experienced engineers to help them diagnose and solve problems and build employee capabilities.Coordinates with other organizations affected by design development to exchange information, ideas, and techniques for the design of products or processes.Communicates with the other engineering personnel to coordinate the interrelated manufacturing process design efforts and ensure project completion.Confers with manufacturing engineering, quality, and supply chain personnel on specifications to evaluate the interface between hardware and operational and performance requirements of the overall system.Ensures adherence to the engineering budget and utilizes available scarce resources wisely.Application RequirementsExperience designing firearms is desired.Experience in design for metal casting, composite, and plastic injection molding components is desired. Possess, at a minimum, a bachelor’s degree in mechanical or manufacturing engineering and 5+ years of relevant design or manufacturing engineering experienceDemonstrated skills in leadership, mentorship, training, and can influence others