Intermediate Mechanical Engineer

Role details

Headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, Moultrie (www.moultrie.com) is the leader in game feeders and cellular camera innovation, building products used by hunters, property owners, and others for real-time remote monitoring. We take pride in developing deep user understanding, obsessing about the details, and going the extra mile to show our users we love them. Moultrie is customer-driven – hardware, software, marketing, and customer success teams collaborate to deliver a quality user experience.

We are guided by the following principles: Customer Obsession.; Excellence is the Standard.; Bias for Action.; Act Boldly.; Deliver Results.; Hire and Develop the Best.; Be Curious and Learn.; Win as a Team

Job Summary

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The Mechanical Engineer position will support the development of innovative, high quality, marketable products for assigned product lines in the Business Unit while working closely with the Brand Managers, Product Development Manager, Operations, and Purchasing. This position is responsible for designing products to meet consumer requirements that are capable of efficient production and are cost effective. The position is expected to work collaboratively with Marketing, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Customer Service, and Sales to meet customer needs and support the strategic goals.

Job Responsibilities

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• Develop new technologies and products that push the market segment forward and garner consumer interest while maintaining the quality of the brand.

• Enhance existing technologies and products to meet product performance expectations, marketing, and sales requirements, and deliver the financial goals of POB.

• Work collaboratively with Marketing, Sales, and Brand project teams and be mindful of release timelines for new products and development.

• Create and execute designs for existing product changes and all new product development.

• Generate, update, and communicate product specification documents defining product design and manufacturing. Submit engineering changes to manufacturing in a timely manner.

• Define factory specifications and key measures. Work with sourcing team and manufacturing to ensure quality and durability of products.

• Maintain appropriate engineering procedures throughout the product development process to achieve engineering deliverables which include cost, reliability, and manufacturing objectives.

• Work within the discipline of the new product development process to ensure only products that meet requirements and are approved are developed.

• Develop and execute test protocols based on real world product use to ensure function and durability of products.

• Support launch activities in manufacturing facilities and assembly plants.

• Carry out other duties, responsibilities, and projects as may be assigned, in an effective manner.

• Take industrial design surfaces and break them up into plastic injection molded parts.

• Mold analysis.

• Testing procedures, FAI’s (first article inspections), stack up tolerance, and critical dimension definitions.

Job Requirements

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• B.S. in Engineering (Mechanical) from an accredited college/university.

• 4 to 8 years of experience

• Excellent problem-solving skills. Ability to form creative solutions to problems.

• Proven organizational skills with an attention to detail.

• Proficient in utilizing Microsoft tools for data analysis, project tracking and presentations.

• Experience in SolidWorks usage/management and design software (Creo/Autodesk).

Essential Job Function

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• A background in the hunting or outdoor sporting goods market.

• Familiar with POB products and a regular user of products in the outdoor market segment.

• Ability to identify critical development issues via root-cause analysis and provide solutions in the form of long- and short-term countermeasures.

• Competent in professional analysis and product development.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Known as collaborative, engaging and team oriented. Partners well within department and across organizations.

• Unquestionable personal integrity.

• Clear ability to prioritize and execute all relevant tasks.

• Have the passion, enthusiasm, and absolute drive for results with a clear focus on profitability.

• Proven ability to resolve conflicts/problems effectively and quickly.

We are an equal opportunity employer and comply with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. We strictly prohibit and do not tolerate discrimination against employees, applicants, or any other covered persons because of race, color, sex, pregnancy status, age, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, training, promotion, discipline, compensation, benefits, and termination of employment.

We comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), as amended by the ADA Amendments Act, and all applicable state or local law.