To discover, develop and evaluate new product ideas, enhancements to existing products or strategic product extensions, and translates research discoveries into usable and marketable products.
The job responsibilities:
Appraises new product ideas to determine their potential to address customer needs and to achieve goals in revenue growth and market share.
Designs, validates and brings new products to market.
Specifies precise new product functional requirements; designs, tests and integrates components to produce final designs; and evaluates the design's overall effectiveness, cost, reliability and safety.
Designs, develops, executes and evaluates fitness-for-use testing, product specifications and process validation plans; creates and reviews material part specifications and bills of materials.
Collaborates with internal manufacturing partners, contract manufacturers, designers and product specialists to optimize designs for manufacturability.
Work closely with Manufacturing management to make sure design and manufacturing details follow best practices. This includes making parts easy to assemble, ensuring welding is accessible, checking the availability of steel sections, considering plate bending, and organizing the bill of materials.
Utilizes CAD (Computer Aided Design) or CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) systems to model new designs and produce detailed engineering drawings.
Respond to more complex technical questions regarding the organization’s product, system or service.
Pre-sales activities include analysing customer’s technical needs and suggesting solutions.
Assist in developing and presenting training material when needed.
Required to travel and meet with customers when needed. This includes taking measurements on-site.
Ensure that all work conform to the required in-house modelling and detailing standards.
Ensure sufficient checking of drawings and BOM’s to eliminate NCR’s.
Participate in generating new in-house technical standards and training material.
Develop and maintain engineering calculations to assist in product design where needed.
Assist in performing engineering first principle calculations when needed.
Manage and assist in performing engineering structural integrity and dynamic calculations and conduct test and measurement exercises, by means of using advanced technology.
Check the designers’ design intent at the initial phase of projects to identify potential weaknesses in the designs.
ETO and R&D resources can be shared across teams on a case-by-case basis to support both regional and global functions based on workload and agreement between departmental managers.
Remote work limited, primarily office based.
Qualifications & Experience Requirements
MEng. University Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering.
2-6 years of advanced 3D CAD modelling and drafting experience in sheet metal fabrication industries including welding specifications.
Good Test & Measurement experience with field or lab testing experience.
Preferred experience in previous R&D role.
Proficient in Siemens NX & Teamcenter software packages. Solid Edge and other CAD software are an added benefit.
Proficient in Python or similar programming language.
We offer you an interesting role in an international business environment, extraordinary products, great colleagues, and opportunities for your professional development. At Sandvik, we believe that diversity of experience, perspective and background will lead to a better environment for our employees, our business and, thereby, our customers. Visit our stories hub, LinkedIn or Facebook to get to know us better.
Application
Send your application as soon as possible as we will be evaluating candidates continuously, and no later than 20 March 2025.
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About us:
Sandvik Rock Processing Solutions is a business area within the Sandvik Group and a leading supplier of equipment, tools, parts, service and solutions for processing rock and minerals in the mining and construction industries. Application areas include crushing and screening, breaking and demolition