.Over 100 years of innovation, experience and industry leadership. Our cutting-edge products and technologies are used by the most successful manufacturers in the automotive industry, including General Motors, Ford Motor Company and Stellantis.This is your opportunity to join STRATTEC as a Product Engineer.Objective: Perform product engineering functions as directed by the engineering manager, with a focus on manufacturing and quality activities.Responsibilities:Support Product strategy activities as directed by Engineering Manager.Working with the Product Engineering and Manufacturing teams, assist in prototype / DV build events to understand how the product will need to be assembled. Collect feedback and work with the team on identified opportunities to improve manufacturability and error-proofing.Perform root cause analysis for validation testing or production quality issues.Perform Design Review by Test Result (DRBTR) teardown analysis of passing and failing test parts.Work closely with advanced manufacturing and quality engineers on evaluating all phases of new equipment construction, including error-proofing, capability, First-Time Quality (FTQ), ergonomics, capacity / throughput, uptime, etc.Work closely with plant manufacturing and quality engineers on evaluating and improving the First-Time Quality (FTQ) and capability of existing assembly lines including error-proofing, line output, uptime, etc.Use lessons learned to improve product design using DFM/DFA techniques, ergonomic and workflow process evaluations, and lean manufacturing concepts.Review DFMEA and PFMEA documents for each project. Confirm that all safety critical failure modes are identified and appropriately passed-through to the applicable assembly and detection steps ensuring that the assembly lines have robust controls in place.Document and maintain plant layout, SPA assembly cell locations and workflow for offsite Product Engineering team reference.Generate and implement cost reduction ideas.Use engineering tools and methods to assure design quality, support others in their use and learning of these tools.Monitor individual program status and report this information to Engineering Manager and Lead Product Engineer.Utilize the STRATTEC Program Development Process (PDP) for program implementation.Utilize the STRATTEC Knowledge Management System (SKMS) for communicating engineering-related program deliverables.Report progress to manager both verbally and in writing as required.Initiate Engineering Change Notices for engineering changes.Periodic travel to customer, suppliers, and other STRATTEC facilities is required (~10%).Requirements:Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering or related.5 years minimum experience in product development required.Experience with manufacturing and quality processes (automotive preferred).Experience in project leadership preferred.Bilingual: English/Spanish.Knowledge:Interpret engineering drawings