Sr Design Engineer

Position Summary:

Support toe corporate WIN strategy by handling design responsibilities for Industrial Air Filtration products. To develop new products, and to improve current products through product line extensions, quality improvements, performance improvements, cost reductions and simplifications.

Scope / Supervision and Interaction:

This job has no direct supervisory responsibility, however, the position mentor's entry-level product engineer and new employees. Must have ability to work well across functions and organizational levels. Position requires the ability to effectively communicate in oral and written form in order to present information and respond to questions from groups of managers and customers.

Essential Functions:

• Lead the development of new air filtration products and technologies from concept through commercialization of Parker's Industrial Aftermarket business (BHA).
• Develop new air filtration products and improve core products by applying engineering design and materials science principles.
• Establish and manage project schedules and budgets to ensure completion on-time and within project scope
• Work as part of a cross-functional team to achieve project objectives.
• Interact with customers for technical support, troubleshooting and product sales.
• Provides engineering support to manufacturing and sales as needed to ensure business continuity.
• Performs mechanical and chemical tests on component materials per standard test methods such as ASTM (e.g. tensile testers, hardness testers, DSC, DMA, SEM).
• Defines product performance standards and product acceptance standards using knowledge of products, product testing and general engineering.
• Maintains and improves level of professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing technical publications and/or participating in professional associations.
• Travel on day per week (on average) to Slater, MO manufacturing faiclity (two hours by vehicle from Overland Park, KS).

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor degree (B.X.) in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Polymer Science, Materials Science or related discipline.

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in product development, technology development and/or project execution.
• Proficient with engineering design and analysis tools (e.g. computer-aided design or modeling systems); ability to use standard PC software packages.
• Experience using risk analysis (FMEA) to create testing plans and statistical analysis of test data.
• Ability to work well in collaborative team environment and to work independently as individual contributor.
• Ability to effectively and independently interact with customers, suppliers and subcontractors, and able to deliver customer-facing presentations.

Desired Qualifications:

Advanced degree (M.S.) in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Polymer Science or a related technical discipline.

• Experience in filtration industry.
• Experience with polymeric materials and fibers.
• Experience with AutoDesk Inventor.

Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies. For more than a century the company has been enabling engineering breakthroughs that lead to a better tomorrow. Learn more at www.parker.com or @parkerhannifin.

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