Senior / Principal Design Engineer

• Prioritize the team's tasks and projects based on the company's product roadmap and high-level business priorities and goals.

• Partner with Product and Project Management to support planning, task timelines, and resourcing needed to execute the roadmap.

• Translate roadmap priorities into actionable, sequenced engineering plans, and adjust team focus as priorities shift.

• Design, document, and implement engineering processes and standards where they don't yet exist - including design review, drawing standards, engineering change control (ECR/ECN), and design release checklists.

• Lead the shift from a reactive, firefighting approach to a proactive continuous improvement culture, introducing practices such as root cause analysis and structured lessons-learned reviews.

• Build and maintain GD&T standards, drawing templates, and design best-practice documentation to raise the team's baseline skill level.

• Track and drive measurable improvement in metrics such as first-pass drawing quality, supplier acceptance rate, and design-related nonconformances.

• Own and/or review mechanism and mechanical component design work, applying sound engineering judgment for manufacturability, tolerancing, and assembly.

• Apply and teach GD&T per ASME Y14.5; review and correct team drawings to raise overall GD&T fluency and consistency across the organization.

• Design go/no-go and functional gaging to support supplier incoming inspection, in-house quality inspection, and production-line checks.

• Create and review parametric CAD models and production drawings, primarily in SolidWorks.

• Identify, evaluate, and qualify new suppliers and third-party/contract manufacturers; own the technical side of supplier onboarding.

• Work directly with suppliers to resolve design, tolerancing, and manufacturability issues.

• Partner closely with Quality to define inspection criteria, support root-cause on nonconformances, and improve incoming and in-process inspection methods.

• Partner with Operations, Procurement, and Manufacturing to ensure designs are producible, cost-effective, and support on-time delivery.

• The team has documented, repeatable design and release processes that didn't exist before.

• GD&T usage and drawing quality across the organization are visibly more consistent and correct.

• Supplier and vendor relationships are more structured, with clearer specs, gaging, and inspection criteria.

• The team is measurably shifting from reactive problem-solving to proactive, continuous improvement.

• Engineers on the team report feeling more focused, supported, and developed.