Notable Accomplishments:
- Managed the validation testing of company’s motor range replacements under critical-stock pressure during worldwide chip shortages.
- Implemented compliance workflow improvements to improve incoming goods quality control.
- Conducted reviews and approvals of manufacturing drawings to improve documentation for QA and Production.
Key Responsibilities:
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Develop conceptual ideas into marketable finished products within budget and time constraints. - Proposed and developed concepts into marketable products based on customer and product management briefs in accordance with proposed budgets and required launch timeframes, including reaching out to potential vendors to provide accurate cost and time estimates ahead of final design approval.
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Re-engineering of existing products to improve cost, functionality, reliability and manufacturing efficiencies. - Refined product designs to reduce manufacturing costs, improve service life, ensure compliance with incoming regulations and improve interoperability with other products in the company’s product lineup.
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Ensure that all products meet, improve or exceed company and industry standards. - Developed baseline testing for products in reference to expected failure modes to provide product management team with data around the expected mean time between failure and overall soundness of product for the market.
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Assist in checking and approving work completed by other team members. - Conducted reviews and approvals of work to ensure high quality documentation for internal quality assurance and external vendor’s usage, ensuring unambiguous specification of parts both for production and quality review.
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Support in the development and implementation of departmental procedures and document control. - Engaged in the development of internal procedures and processes for the team, laying out specification and requirement planning, and streamlined testing procedures to assist in accelerating products from concept to market.
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Communicate project status through reports, presentations and design reviews. - Provided reports to stakeholders and presented updates, issues and proposed designs. Performed design reviews with peers to ensure individual designs were fit-for-purpose.
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Generate technical product documentation. - Generated and assisted with technical documentation for products including user manuals, product labels, regulatory compliance documentation, firmware and compliance registers as well as additional documentation as required by specific customers.
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Provide time estimates for costing and planning. - Provided estimations for cost, effort and overall timeline based on knowledge of process and prior experience. Engaged with other members of project team to ensure that timelines and effort estimations were accurate throughout the lifecycle of projects.
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Provide timely and effective technical support to customers and suppliers. - Provided customer support team and product management with technical support and data to ensure positive outcomes for end-users and customers. Provided timely responses to vendor queries regarding designs and specification queries for product manufacture.