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Designer Planner

Location : MILTON, ON, Canada

Job Family : Engineering

Job Type : Regular

Posted : Apr 18, 2024

Job ID : 48381

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Designer Portion

· Analyses, researches, and designs cylinders to meet customer needs.

· Creates designs by analyzing product or equipment specifications, performance requirements, and existing manufacturing capabilities. Performs moderately complex design, fabrication, modification, and evaluation of cylinders by applying engineering principals and established analytical tools. May develop detailed designs by using sketches and descriptive transfer functions provided by others.

· Determines feasibility of designing cylinders or modifying existing cylinder designs considering technical and economic factors, available resources, time constraints, and company planning, by performing detailed trade studies, applying analytical methods, and creating solutions which are defined and can be fully implemented.

· Investigates pertinent design factors such as ease of manufacture, availability of materials and equipment, interchangeability, product replacement, strength-weight efficiency, contractual specification requirements, cost-defining recommendations, and change proposals.

· Prepares or directs preparation of cylinders, detailed drawings, assembly drawings, and schematics, interpreting customer and functional requirements, or by using computer-aided design tools and following industry and/or military drawing standards. Develops data and makes preliminary layouts, sketches, notes, and documentation in response to customer proposal requests.

· Reviews drawings and layouts to ensure clarity, completeness, form, fit, function, and conformity to standards, procedures, and specifications. Identifies design errors, omissions, and other deficiencies, and recommends revisions and improvements.

· Conducts analyses and/or tests pertaining to the development of new designs, methods, materials or processes and completes required documentation by applying engineering principles and company standards, and generating reports, procedures, or change proposals.

· Communicates with customers on Parker product capabilities and to clarify customers’ technical requirements.

· Recommends changes to refine and enhance cylinders and applications by applying continuous improvement principles and techniques.

· Consistently applies established engineering practices, standards, and documentation methods.

· Shares specialized knowledge with others. Assists in mentoring new employees. Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed. Work assignments may include cross-functional or project team responsibilities (e.g. continuous improvement).

Planner Portion

· Maintain and create cylinder part numbers (CPN) in our cylinder planning system both for purchased and manufactured parts

• Enter bill of materials (BOMs) for cylinders and systems complete with process routings in our cylinder planning system

• Ability to make decisions on Make vs Buy for Cylinder & Engineered Systems components

• Add / Edit Product Data both to CPNs and components

• Add / Edit Routings, Machine Centres, and Outside Vendor Labour

• Identify CPNs requiring Design Engineering and / or shop drawings

• Release CPNs (Ensure BOMs with all relevant data and routings are in a released state)

• Build BOMs, Product Data & Routings from scratch (outside of PCS)

• Notify Manufacturing Engineering, requirement of new machining programs

• Standardize as much as possible to use readily available or in-stock components

• Actively participate in Daily Production Meetings to help expedite

• Update Work in Process (WIP) jobs to account for any Sales Order revisions and / or cancellation

• Generate WIP manually as and when required

• Conduct monthly Audit on un-closed WIP jobs and resolve them

• Assist Customer Service and Technical Support through our customer service request system (Oracle Service Requests)

• Maintain daily measurements and actively participate in Team Improvement meetings

• Supplement design engineering CAD drawings for cylinders and engineered systems using AutoDesk Inventor

• Perform other duties as assigned

Acountability/Responsibilities:

· Design cylinders to meet the demands of customer requirements

· Develop concepts with customers to final delivery of a solution

· Provide quotation, testing and troubleshooting support

· Ensure all planning is correct for manufacturing

Education/Experience:

· A bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or an appropriate related engineering discipline

· Minimum of 5 years relevant design and application experience

· CET, P.Eng. or Certified Fluid Power Hydraulic Specialist an asset

Skills:

· Must have demonstrated involvement in design development

· Must be familiar with database and spreadsheet applications such as MS Office

· Demonstrate mechanical, hydraulic and pneumatic knowledge

· Ability to discover and understand customer’s unmet needs

· Capable of developing concepts with customers to final delivery of a solution

· Must have exceptional organizational, written and verbal communications skills

· Must have exceptional customer service skills.

· Conviction to improve personally and support continuous improvement in the department and company as a whole

· High level of personal integrity and strong work ethic

· Ability to work in a fast-paced environment

· Self-starter

· Effective time management skills

· Support the Team Approach to problem solving

· Knowledge of manufacturing and assembly processes

· Possess analytical and technical skills

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