Sr. New Product Development Engineer at Tempur Sealy in Trinity, North Carolina
Posted in Other 30+ days ago.
Job Description:
Job Summary: The Sr. New Product Development Engineer will develop technologies that align with each brand's innovation priorities. This position will be responsible for development, validation, and transfer of new materials, components, and/or processes to the New Product Development team. This role will collaborate with Merchandising and Marketing for joint development of new mattress systems to support the product roadmap. Additionally, the Sr. Product Development Engineer will focus on delivering quality and cost improvements on present constructions.
Essential Duties, Responsibilities, and Key Results Area:
- Creative development of new components and products which meet platform requirements for cost, performance, and schedule.
- Leadership of cross-functional Advanced Development Teams.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to organize and drive issues to closure.
- Work cross-functionally with multiple organizations in the company for delivery of robust technologies.
- Interact closely with Manufacturing.
- Drive engineering solutions and validate design integrity.
- Influence functions across the organization to accept new ideas and concepts.
- Coordinate development efforts with 3rd party suppliers on new technologies.
- Integration, testing, and evaluation of new materials and components into mattress build ups.
- Develop customized test methods; review, manipulate, and interpret data; summarize clearly and concisely.
- Coordinate prototype builds and validation testing.
- Facilitate innovation meetings internal and external to the Company.
- Drive development projects through the Advanced Development Stage Gate system.
- Transfer of specs, validation testing, and project documentation to the New Product Development team.
- Provide estimated costs for new constructions.
- Manage competing priorities and deadlines.
Other primary duties and responsibilities include the following; however, Management reserves the right to assign or reassign other appropriate duties to this job at any time. This document excludes the marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the performance of fundamental job duties.
Tempur Sealy is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type based upon race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.