Spin Masters

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Are you a kid at heart looking to build a career with a leading global children's toy, entertainment and digital gaming company?

At Spin Master, our unwavering commitment to open mindedness, integrity and innovation is a great part of what has made us an industry leader. How do we stay ahead of the pack? By hiring the best and brightest minds—and that’s why we want you!

Job Description:

What will you work on?

The Principal Engineer will be responsible for driving the technical execution of global toys and games portfolios, from concept through production, and ensuring performance, cost, quality, and schedule adherence. The position will provide expertise in proven techniques for successful product development and design for manufacturing/assembly. The Principal Engineer will be recognized as a thought leader with a high level of functional expertise, working closely with the larger cross-functional teams (Design, Marketing, Engineering, Product Integrity, Packaging, Consumer Insights etc.) to drive technical development throughout the entire product lifecycle and strategic category evolution. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, leading technical development of products, defining product specifications, identifying risks and opportunities to pre-empt development hurdles, providing escalation management, and working with stakeholders to balance business, design, and technical objectives

How will you create impact?

• Collaborate with Global Brand Team (Creative and Marketing teams) on generating new innovative concepts, and provide technical feasibility and cost assessment
• Create and establish best practices to effectively support high complexity items, strategic initiatives, and early concept explorations
• Identify issues, formulate resolution action plan, and execute through to completion with limited oversight– leverage executive leadership and functional partners to gain necessary resources and support.
• Coach and review the work of professionals with active focus on imparting expertise
• Lead strategic initiatives around operational innovation, efficiencies, or other improvements to significantly impact product development and/or processes.
• Explore new materials, technology, and manufacturing processes to continuously push Spin Master to the forefront of product development
• Well versed in industry leading technologies and techniques, enabling Spin Master to pursuit and maintain competitive advantage
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure milestones and integration are on-time
• Provide mechanical, material, electro-mechanical, and/or mechatronic engineering expertise throughout the product development lifecycle
• Lead prototyping and proof-of-concept builds to de-risk and test new mechanisms, key features, and/or gameplay feasibility
• Detail design of components and products for manufacturing, optimizing DMF/A
• Create product and performance specifications
• Be key point of contact with Manufacturing Engineering teams (in Asia, Mexico, EU, etc), and ensure alignment on all project details
• Lead product review meetings and create action plan for technical deliverables
• Anticipate, analyze, resolve, and escalate project issues
• Drive productivity by implementing design for manufacturing/assembly up front
• Partner with responsible departments to ensure all projects are delivered on-cost, on-spec, on-time
• Use PLM software to manage and track key deliverables; proactively resolve potential issues to keep the product on track, on cost, and on specification
• Improve efficiency in the engineering process through continuous improvement
• Ability to travel internationally to support projects

How will you fit into the team?

• Thought leader in area of expertise, and researching white space opportunities for the company to explore
• Influencing business decisions made by leadership via innovation and technology
• Ability to provide strong technical leadership to drive innovative and cost-effective design solutions
• Active focus coaching and imparting expertise to whole department resulting in overall expertise growth for the whole team.
• Lead strategic initiatives around operational innovation, efficiencies, or other improvements to significantly impact product development and/or processes.
• Out-of-the-box thinking; ability to contribute to product roadmap and process mapping; willing to take innovation risk while balancing schedule, cost, and quality
• Track record of driving innovative, cost-effective design solutions with proven productivity savings
• Expert in manufacturing with proven success in this field

What are your skills and experience?

• Product Engineering service/experience
• BS/MS in Mechanical Engineering preferred
• Toy or CPG experience an asset
• Experience with plastics, materials, manufacturing, and/or engineering costs for durable goods

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What you can expect from us:

Our mission is to Make Life More Fun with a vision to push the boundaries of innovation, creativity, and fun.

• Growth and Career Opportunities
• Flexible Work Hours
• Innovation, Collaboration and Fun
• Comprehensive Benefits
• Other fun Perks!

What’s it like to work here?

Spin Master is a fast-paced, hands-on organization that provides many great opportunities for impactful decision-making; though our challenging start-up atmosphere isn’t for everyone, we have a proven record of opportunities for future advancement and internal transfers for our passionate and results driven team.

Everyone is welcome in our sandbox and we are committed to an accessible and inclusive hiring process that provides reasonable accommodation to all applicants.

Spin Master strives to create an accessible and inclusive application and selection process and is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to job applicants who may require provisions to participate in the recruitment, selection and/or assessment processes. Should you require an accommodation, please contact our Talent Acquisition team, by email at TAinquiries@spinmaster.com or by phone at 416 364-6002 and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.

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We do appreciate all interest; however only those selected for interview will be contacted.