Hydraulic Sealing Engineer

Job Title: Hydraulic Sealing Engineer

Location: Aurora IL or Mossville IL

Job Description:

• Lead dynamic product development with responsibility for influencing and implementing sealing technology in hydraulic components.
• Executing Hydraulic Component New Product Introduction (NPI) programs associated with new sealing solutions skillfully analyze customer product performance challenges and develop new technologies in a highly collaborative environment with the global sealing partners.
• Leverage technical commercial and project leadership skills to drive sealing.
• Design control responsibility for hydraulic sealing products across the enterprise; accountable for meeting customer expectations for product cost quality and delivery (for example)
• Contribute to multiple New Product Introduction (NPI) development projects New Technology Integration (NTI) projects and product cost/quality improvement projects.
• Collaborate with supplier representatives global/regional purchasing and manufacturing facility teams to support the product velocity quality & cost targets conduct supplier process audits evaluate sourcing and complete PPAP/APQP process validation tasks.
• Troubleshoot field failures conduct analysis of warranty claims and factory issues.
• Complete parts analysis and technical reports as needed.
• Mentor and train global teams on hydraulic sealing products applications and solutions.
• Adapts documents and presentations for the intended audience.
• Troubleshooting Technical Problems: Knowledge of troubleshooting approaches tools and techniques; ability to anticipate detect and resolve technical problems in a manufacturing environment.
• Communicates reporting requirements; creates monitoring and control mechanisms.

Qualifications:

• Project Management: Knowledge of effective project management strategies and tactics; ability to plan organize monitor and control projects ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve project objectives.
• Education Bachelors degree or higher in accredited Engineering field
• Experience 47 years of industry experience.
• Masters degree (or equivalent) in an accredited Engineering curriculum
• Degree in Polymer/Chemical or Mechanical Engineering field
• Industry experience with polymer application engineering global sources and manufacturing processes
• Application knowledge of mining and construction equipment
• Hydraulic component design and development experience familiar with cylinder applications