Sr Prod Dev Engineer
Summary
Senior Product Development Engineer at Mattel in Shenzhen designing and optimizing high-complexity motorized toys, using CAD tools like ProE/Creo and collaborating with global teams to improve manufacturing efficiency and cost-effective solutions.
- Leading front-end product design & development, collaborating with US and local design & development teams and outside vendors to interpret initial concepts to manufacturable products.
- Building up standard design; platform; structure; modules and manufacturing process etc. to optimize cost effective design solutions. Digitalizing standard design elements to cope with the company’s D3 initiative.
- Exploring new industry technologies and translating to product designs, innovative thinking throughout design & development cycles.
- Smart Manufacturing – Team up with internal & external stakeholders to optimize manufacturing efficiency; value engineering and quality first measurements etc.
- Coaching / Sharing with local PDE team for further developments.
- Providing engineering support and consultation to internal and external partners.
- Defining the short-term and long-term objectives and quantify improvement measures.
- Bachelor’s degree with major in Electro-mechanical or related industrial engineering disciplines.
- A minimum of 15 years’ experience in product design & development; preferable in high complexity Radio Control category.
- High proficiency in design applications, especially in ProE, Creo etc.
- Excellent command of written and spoken English.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and organizational skills.
- Proactive, result-driven, and able to work independently and under pressure.
- Knowledgeable experiences related to high complexity motorized mechanism, modeling, tooling, programming, battery configurations etc.
- Quality First Mindset and familiar with international safety standards.
- Strong sense of scheduling and costing.