Product Engineer CPD

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Date:May 16, 2024

Location: Lakeshore, ON, CA

Company: Leggett & Platt

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Leggett & Platt’s overall mission is a commitment to enhance lives – by delivering quality products, offering empowering and rewarding careers, and doing our part in bringing about a better future.

Leggett & Platt’s inventive heritage and leadership in the residential products industry span more than 130 years. AsThe Components People, we are the leading supplier of a wide range of products and components for all areas of life, including mattress springs and carpet cushion, as well as bedding machinery and erosion-control products.

From aerospace tubing and fabricated assemblies to flooring underlayment and carpet cushion, Leggett & Platt has divisions that design, manufacture, and sell a variety of products. Our reliable product development and launch capability, coupled with our global footprint, make us a trusted partner for customers in the aerospace, hydraulic cylinders, flooring, textile, and geo components industries.

Learn more about the history of Leggett: https://leggett.com/history

Automotive

Leggett & Platt Automotive is a global provider of wire forms, mechanical control cables, wireless charging, as well as seat lumbar, suspension, bolster, actuator, and motor systems. In addition to these award-winning, category-leading products, we offer tailored goods due to our expertise in product development and attention to market trends. Our unique competitive advantages give us unmatched insight into the demands of the consumer.

Learn more about Leggett & Platt Automotive: Leggett & Platt Automotive (https://leggett-automotive.com/)

Responsibilities:

• Engineer product solutions and technologies for the Core Product Development (CPD) using advanced design methods and tools.

• Generate novel design ideas, optimize current CPD projects, and develop detail solutions based on engineering calculations, sketches and specifications.

• Perform tolerance and design analysis using GD&T principles and suitable engineering tools (Minitab, Enventive, KissSoft, and others) to document the results and assumptions.

• Prototype conceptual design solutions using mockups (hand built, 3d printing, machined or other means) to evaluate their feasibility and performance.

• Conduct engineering activities to validate product design using various testing methods and standards in support of project deliverables and core team timing requirements.

• Coordinate and track design work (models, design drawings, assembly drawings) to ensure they are released on time and to internal standards.

• Participate actively on core teams and present engineering deliverables from the CPD workbook.

• Maintain accurate records of technical information and data to support the project deliverables using effective communication skills and tools.

• Ensure products are reviewed for best practice from a Design for assembly (DFA) and DFSS analytical analysis.

• Meet all required compliance and audit deliverables using appropriate standards and rules.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Engineering degree from a recognized University or equivalent qualification.

• Preferred up to 3 years of experience in automotive product design.

• Knowledge of product assembly and component tolerances using GD&T and prior experience in presenting, engineering calculations and analysis, and automotive APQP terms.

• Competence in working in a fast-paced work environment to address design problems, project outcomes to a predetermined timeline. Always uphold a positive disposition in self and team.

• Experience in injection molded components and DC motors is a plus.

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