Mechanical Design Engineer (New role based in Kulim High Tech Park, Kedah)

Watlow Profile: The world’s leading companies start with Watlow. Watlow, a privately owned company, is the industry leader in the design, manufacturing and integration of complete thermal systems including electric heaters, temperature sensors, temperature controllers, power controllers and supporting software. At Watlow, we are constantly driven to do more to help our customers. We take on big technical challenges. We are committed to projects that help our fellow human beings and we strive to learn more. From single components to high performance systems, we bring our thermal expertise to numerous applications, including semiconductor processing, energy processes, diesel, foodservice equipment, life sciences and others.

Overview of Role

• Interpret customer specifications, produce CAD models and supporting drawings, product documentation, design and fabricate tools; design and build equipment and prototypes; design and conduct experiments; design, gather and evaluate test results; produce test reports and other documentation.
• MUST be willing to work in Kulim High Tech Park, Kedah

Functional Contribution (Contribution Matrix)

• Focuses on improving existing products or processes that impact technical area or local plant;
• Actions impact primary team or product line;
• Interacts with internal and external customers/suppliers;
• Works under general supervision of more experienced employees or manager;
• Ability to solve moderately complex problems, but may still require instruction and guidance on complex problems;
• Able to translate concepts into designs and actions;
• Understands and explains the design drawings to the operators;
• Transfers the P/Ns from other Watlow sites to Malaysia in the ERP system;
• Uses ECO in the PLM to make changes to the transferred products;
• Tooling design for the product lines;
• Lead or participate in the change control board;
• Instructs, directs, and checks the work of less experienced employees;
• Provides coaching and feedback to less experienced employees;
• Is a team member on a major project or several smaller projects;
• Prepares detailed specifications for work that is completed;
• Responsible for the completion of a phase of a larger project;
• Eventually may lead projects with small budgets or limited duration;
• Identifies ways to reduce product, process, or project costs;
• Knows and applies the concepts, practices and procedures in a technical specialty area;
• Mastery of basic systematic/ creative problem solving tools/skills;
• Basic understanding of lean product development tools and methods;
• Has a thorough understanding of the business or function being supported

Skills, Abilities and Mastery (Responsibility Matrix):

Product & Process Documentation:

• Reads and interprets customer specifications and drawings for moderately complex products;
• Works independently to create and modify complex product and process designs using appropriate design specifications and trade-off curves;
• Prepares 3D/2D CAD models and drawings for new parts and assemblies based on customer needs using Solidworks;
• Develops product and process solution detail, standards, and associated documentation including trade-off curves;
• Understands and applies knowledge capture and reuse methods;
• Develops and updates regulatory and quality compliance documentation as needed.

Testing and Evaluation:

• Performs tests, inspections, and other evaluations of products and processes based on defined procedures and standards and create procedures and standards for these activities;
• Creates and programs applications using appropriate software;
• Performs failure analyses of production line and field products;
• Contributes to resolution of manufacturability issues with production floor and Manufacturing;
• Engineering for new products;
• Works independently to create test reports;
• Contributes to development of new manufacturing processes.

Technical Support:

• Serves as a subject matter expert in appropriate discipline area to provide technical support to engineers, designers, sales agents, customers and production;
• Works with suppliers to get samples, order parts, and explore cost saving ideas;
• Trains production employees on products, processes, procedures, and equipment.

Administrative Activities:

• Creates and assembles BOM, routing and other product attributes for all products designed to support PLM documentation and procedures and identify improvements where necessary;
• Understands and follows all organization and department safety policies and procedures and identify improvements where necessary;
• Issues tooling and materials purchasing requests;
• Performs quality investigations and provides recommendations to address issues.

Coaching / Mentoring:

• Provides coaching and feedback to less experienced technicians and designers;
• Conducts training and technical orientation for new employees

Qualifications

Must have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and at least 3 years of industrial experiences in related field;
• Demonstrated capability to read and interpret engineering drawings;
• At least 2 years of experiences in Mechanical design, experience with 3D solid modeling software (Solidworks) is a plus;
• Demonstrated understanding and practical application of electrical, thermal and basic metallurgical knowledge;
• Good presentation skills;
• Demonstrated knowledge of MS Office;
• Demonstrated ability to work in a team-based environment;
• Demonstrated capability to interact with design team, CART, account managers and sales to optimize a system solution for the customer;
• Perform mental tasks such as critical decision making, organizing many topics, prioritizing work to align with business objectives and exercising good judgement;
• Ability to communicate and interact with suppliers and customers effectively;
• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills;
• Fluent in English both verbal and written.

Additional success factors:

• Project Management and Lean training/experience;
• Knowledge of change control fundamentals and processes;
• Flexibility to handle multiple projects of varying size and scope;
• Thorough attention to details and documentation;
• Proactive team player with a desire to build effective working relationships.