Senior Product Development Engineer

What will you work on?
The Senior Product Development Engineer (Sr. PDE) will be responsible for driving the technical execution of global toys, from concept through production, and ensuring performance, cost, quality, and schedule adherence. The position will provide expertise in proven techniques for successful product development and design for manufacturing/assembly. The Sr. PDE will work closely with large cross-functional teams (Design, Marketing, Engineering, Quality, Packaging, etc.) to manage development throughout the entire product lifecycle.  Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, leading technical development of products, defining product specifications, identifying risks and opportunities to pre-empt development hurdles, providing escalation management, and working with stakeholders to balance business, design, and technical objectives.
How will you create impact?
 

• Collaborate with GBT (Design and Brand teams) on generating new concepts and provide technical and cost assessment.
• Ability to create and impart best practices to effectively support high complexity items, strategic initiatives, and early concept explorations.
• Identify issues, formulate resolution action plan, and execute through to completion with limited oversight– leverage executive leadership and functional partners to gain necessary resources and support.
• Lead strategic initiatives around operational innovation, efficiencies, or other improvements to significantly impact product development and/or processes.
• Explore new materials, technology, and manufacturing processes to continuously push Spin Master to the forefront of product development.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure milestones and integration are on-time.
• Provide mechanical, material, electro-mechanical, and/or mechatronic engineering expertise throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Lead prototyping and proof-of-concept builds to de-risk and test new mechanisms, key features, and/or gameplay feasibility.
• Lead strategic initiatives around operational innovation, efficiencies, or other improvements to significantly impact product development and/or processes.
• Detail design of components and products for manufacturing, optimizing DMF/A.
• Create product and performance specifications.
• Be key point of contact with Manufacturing Engineering teams (in Asia, Mexico, EU, etc), and ensure alignment on all project details.
• Lead product review meetings and create action plan for technical deliverables.
• Anticipate, analyze, resolve, and escalate project issues.
• Drive productivity by implementing design for manufacturing/assembly up front.
• Partner with responsible departments to ensure all projects are delivered on-cost, on-spec, on-time.
• Use PLM software to manage and track key deliverables; proactively resolve potential issues to keep the product on track, on cost, and on specification.
• Coach and review the work of lower-level professionals with active focus on imparting expertise.
• Improve efficiency in the engineering process through continuous improvement.
• Explore new materials, technology, and manufacturing processes
• Ability to travel internationally to support projects.

What are your skills and experience?

• Product Engineering service/experience.
• Experience with plastics, materials, manufacturing, and/or engineering costs for durable goods.
• Toy or CPG experience an asset.

The anticipated pay range for candidates who will work in California is $100,000 to $115,000 Per Annum. The offered pay to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to years of experience within the job, years of experience within the required industry, education, etc. Spin Master Inc. is a multi-state employer, and this salary range may not reflect positions that work only in other states.
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