Generac Power Systems –  Work with the leader in the power industry! Generac is a Wisconsin based $1.8 billion market-leading manufacturing company that builds quality power products that positively impacts the lives of our customers.  We have a new opportunity in our Jefferson facility for an Engineer II.  The Engineer II is responsible for providing engineering input to the product development projects assigned to him/her including interfacing with the cross functional team consisting of engineering, operations (industrial engineering, production, and material procurement, sourcing, quality, service, and marketing).  

Responsibilities:

• Designs, validates, and brings new products to market
• Provides new product development in the Industrial, Commercial, Residential and/or Retail generator or Power Tools product area including; Creating and maintaining CAD models, drawings, and BOMs, Supporting product development plans (schedule, product cost, meeting design inputs), Interfacing with internal company personnel, Provide technical support for assigned projects.
• Specifies precise new product functional requirements; designs, tests and integrates moderately complex components to produce final designs; and evaluates the design's overall effectiveness, cost (including cost/benefit analysis), reliability (risk analysis), and safety.
• Designs, develops, executes and evaluates fitness-for-use testing, product specifications and process validation plans for a variety of standard products and/or components; creates and reviews material part specifications and bills of materials.
• Collaborates with internal manufacturing partners, contract manufacturers, designers and product specialists to optimize more complex designs for manufacturability.
• Utilizes CAD (Computer Aided Design) or CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) systems to model new designs and produce detailed engineering drawings.
• Supports product development plans (schedule, product cost, meeting design inputs)
• Develops less experienced engineers.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or related discipline
• 3 plus years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to perform detail oriented work with a high degree of accuracy
• Design experience with a variety of materials(Plastics, alumni castings, sheet metal, etc.) and basic knowledge of material specs and use
• Experience in new product design and development
• Ability to conduct analysis using FEA,CFD, etc.
• Demonstrated written communication and presentation skills
• Ability to translate technical information to all audiences
• Able to solve moderate to complex engineering problems
• Good decision-making skills
• Technical Skills to include 3D modeling (ProE or SolidWorks)
• MS Excel, MS Word
• Experience with machine design
• Previous experience with SAP or equivalent ERP.