Job Posting Start Date 03-23-2026 Job Posting End Date 06-26-2026

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Job Summary

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a Product Engineer located in Columbia, SC.

Reporting to the **Process Engineering Manager,**the **Product Engineer **will be responsible for receiving, evaluating, cleaning, and customizing all technical information / documentation from the customer related to their product, derived from a New Product Introduction (NPI) or a design change to establish all necessary processes to manufacture it by maintaining its design and performance integrity.

What a typical day looks like:

• Handle product transfer and new product set up.

• Support production by assessing product engineering issues of diverse scope that arise on production line.

• Suggest improvements to process to obtain improved quality and production yield.

• Solve product related problems and perform failure evaluation related to product issues.

• Interact with customer and various departments on product related issues

• Work with design team to resolve design related issues.

• Suggest modification to work instructions, material, or product changes to ensure excellent quality of products.

• Customer´s Bill of Material (BOM) evaluation and structure definition for production

• Functional Product Documentation review

• Safety Requirements and regulations compliance identification

• Engineering Drawings Interpretation of parts and assemblies.

• Request customer for drawing corrections, additions, clarification, measurements methods

• Manage Engineering Changes Implementation

• Conduct Design for Manufacturing (DFM), tolerance evaluation, Design of Experiment (DOE), form-fit-function to define failure root/cause evaluation and reporting to customer

• Provide support to supply chain to integrate parts derived from the vertical integration or localization effort

• Provide product training to the manufacturing/process engineers for better understanding of the product.

• Request, handle and administrate golden samples, engineering samples of final product and/or piece parts

• Inspection of customer product parts and assemblies through model files using Computer-aided Design (CAD) system

• Evaluate and identify course of action of Product Change Notification (PCN) and Manufacturing Change Order (MCO)

• Ability to take additional responsibilities of the Manufacturing Engineer depending on the size and complexity of the customer product

• Establish, operate, and maintain a standard method for technical information interchange with the customer to control and preserve information of NPI transferred projects.

The experience we’re looking to add to our team:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electromechanical, or related engineering.

• 7+ years of product engineering experience in the electrical manufacturing industry.

• Strong proficiency in Solid Works and AutoCAD.

• Design, drawing, and updating of new product parts; ability to read and interpret dimensions, tolerances, schematics, and engineering drawings, with solid knowledge of metrology and measurement methods.

• Strong analytical skills to analyze problems, design experiments, perform Design for Manufacturing (DFM) analyses, collect and interpret data, and draw valid technical conclusions.

• Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts (exponents, logarithms, quadratic equations, permutations) and statistical methods such as frequency distributions, reliability and validity testing,

• Experience creating BOMs and component lists, reviewing quantities and materials, transferring product information to process engineering, supporting training and change control activities, and demonstrating deep technical expertise with an understanding of the strategic impact across multiple sites.

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What you'll receive for the great work you provide:

• Full range of medical, dental, and vision plans
• Life Insurance
• Short-term and Long-term Disability
• Matching 401(k) Contributions
• Vacation and Paid Sick Time
• Tuition Reimbursement

Job Category

Production Engineering

Is Sponsorship Available?

No

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