Product Design Director jobs in Conway, AR

Description

AIM or MISSION: 

Combine creative vision, artistic, and engineering skills to develop innovative, functional, and high performing marine products.

DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES/EXPECTATIONS:

• Enhance the usability, aesthetics, and overall user experience of marine products, taking into consideration factors such as ergonomics, materials, and manufacturing processes.
• Collaborate with key stake holders including manufacturing and marketing to ensure that the final product meets functional, production, cost, and aesthetic requirements. 
• Create detailed technical drawings, specifications, and documentation that serve as guidelines for manufacturing and production. 
• Assist in the ideation, research, planning, prototyping, sourcing, and costing elements of the product development process.
• Assist in the design/redesign, development, implementation, and control of new or existing manufacturing processes.
• Assist the Quality, Sales, and Warranty departments with the root cause analysis, solution and controls implementation, of identified and prioritized opportunities. 
• Research available options for parts, vendors, and new product/process concepts.
• Initiate new product/process projects with vendors.
• Contact vendors frequently during the product and process development process to keep projects on schedule.
• Compile information such as costs, timeframes, photos, etc. for the product and process development team.
• Create documentation such as spreadsheets, checklists, etc. to aid in new product development.
• When possible, obtain sample products for review.
• Assist the production supervisors in training for new products.
• Listen for feedback from the production line and translate that back into the development process.
• Communication
  • Clearly communicate to all stakeholders.
  • Communicate with production supervisors on manufacturing, technical, safety, or quality issues they are experiencing, and address those issues in a timely manner.
  • Communicate presented production issues to the proper channels (whether to vendors or to Veranda oversight).
• Water-test new products and warranty/quality projects.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Complete product development projects on schedule.
• Provide engineering support to the production line, quality inspection department, and warranty department.
• Draft documentation support for technical, manufacturing, safety, and quality assurance processes.
• Communication with vendors to facilitate product development, improve manufacturing processes, and address quality issues.
• R&D Manager review.

Requirements

Education & other KSA's 

Adept with Microsoft Office software suite

 Working knowledge of CAD software

 Knowledge of Veranda's products

 Understanding of compliance standards

 Understanding of lean manufacturing process

 COMPETENCIES 

Communication

 Willingness to learn

 Openness to new ideas

 Teamwork

 Initiative

 Creativity

 Adaptability

Problem-Solving

Technical and Spatial Reasoning

 Organization