.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 implements cost reduction ideas.- Use engineering tools and methods to assure design quality, supports others in there use and learning of these tools.- Monitor individual program status and reports this information to Engineering Manager and Lead Product Engineer.- Utilizes the STRATTEC Program Development Process (PDP) for program implementation.- Utilizes the STRATTEC Knowledge Management System (SKMS) for communicating engineering-related program deliverables.- Reports progress to manager both verbally and in writing as required.- Initiates Engineering Change Notices for engineering changes.- Periodic travel to customer, suppliers, 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