Product Engineer

SPECIFIC DUTIES - Essential (employee MUST be able to execute): • Focusing on Kopin commercial products, drive team activities to achieve product success throughout the life cycle of the product. • Participate in development of new product road maps. • Coordinate mapping of customer / market requirements into specific design and development requirements and engineering projects involving new and existing products. • Participate in which design paths are the most appropriate for a given product development project and work within the organization to make those designs a reality. • Communicate within the organization, including Sale & Marketing, on the impact and status of new product development efforts. • Drive the development of new product specifications. • Develop test requirements to ensure that new products are properly validated against the product specification. • Support all production transition activities, including preparation of drawings and the purchase of parts and material, selection of manufacturing processes and the preparation of routings. • Ensure approved changes in design and manufacturing processes are incorporated on appropriate drawings and technical sheets. • Provide technical support to vendors and manufacturing and assembly departments and assist with the resolution of problems and questions. • Evaluate prospective vendors for suitability as suppliers. • Investigate and take corrective action in response to customer satisfaction issues and material discrepancy reports. • Ability to guide and direct the work of other Engineers, Designers, and Technicians. OTHER WORK TO BE PERFORMED: • Provide intuitive technical insight into problems and help the organization arrive at innovative and practical solutions. • Determine which products can benefit from cost reductions based on innovative design ideas. • Identify solutions resulting in new products which exceed the operating performance of the market competition while resulting in lower build costs. • Solve complex problems and deliver innovation to our customers.

DESIRED JOB QUALIFICATIONS: Education: BSME. MSME preferred. Experience: 10 years experience. Desired Personal Traits: Excellent technical writing, speaking and presentation skills.