Advanced Process Engineer Senior

**Position Summary**:
The Senior Product Development Engineer will lead the mechanical development of essential consumer products that have national and international exposure to millions of consumers. This involves working with a creative, collaborative team of engineering and design professionals, test labs, marketing, industrial design, and sales towards the successful launch of new consumer products.

**Primary Responsibilities**:

- Develop technical solutions of a project to include initial scoping, design concept generation, functional prototyping, design validation, manufacturing validation, and development of value engineering plans through product launch
- Understands and shares best practices, processes and customers. Contribute to standards and best practices as required
- Follow a standard engineering workflow, with milestones, and specific deliverables to be complimented with an innovative, continuous improvement spirit and obsession for exceeding customer expectations
- Investigate and prescribe optimized materials and manufacturing processes for a given component and sub-systems. Look beyond current material and manufacturing standards, and integrate outside industry best practices and manufacturing innovation into the development
- Understanding of Cooper Standard product lines outside of main discipline
- Understand customer required standards/design guides and uses this understanding to accomplish strategic objectives
- Effective leadership of collaborative sessions within and outside technical domain to gather information and vet technical opportunities, consumer needs, and optimized design
- Generate novel technical innovation that can be used to gain competitive advantage
- Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience; may lead small projects with manageable risks and resource requirements
- Mentor and support new product development engineers
- Ability to solve problems in complex situations with mínimal supervision; analyzes possible solutions using technical experience, judgment and advanced problem solving tools
- May, on occasion, be required to perform duties other that those specified in this description. Performs other related duties