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Daifuku

Manufactures and integrates material handling systems

Senior Product Development Engineer

Design EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline, preferably Mechanical, Industrial, or Product Development, or equivalent experience.
  • At least 6 years of material-handling-related experience.
  • Experience designing conveyor, sortation, or automation equipment.
  • Experience designing parts or equipment for volume manufacturing.
  • Experience with SolidWorks or similar 3D computer-aided design software and 2D AutoCAD.
  • Experience with Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, and Teams.

Responsibilities

  • Create product designs that are manufacturable, scalable, consistent, competitive, and desirable to customers.
  • Perform diverse, specialized, and complex work involving significant accountability and decision-making.
  • Ensure new products are safe, reliable, and easy to maintain.
  • Follow engineering standards and use modeling and simulation tools to prove or disprove designs.
  • Partner with the design team, internal customers, manufacturing, quality control, purchasing, and outside vendors to develop new solutions.
  • Maintain a progress schedule that meets project milestones.
  • Perform on-site testing and verification.
  • Travel up to 20%.
  • Conceive, develop, engineer, prototype, test, and revise product designs.
  • Analyze data to identify trends in usage, cost, performance, and reliability.
  • Develop and execute test plans for concepts and prototypes.
  • Select appropriate and cost-effective purchased parts.
  • Perform engineering calculations to ensure robust designs, including horsepower, stress, torque, deflection, torsion, overhung load, sortation rate, cycle rate, air consumption, and amperage draw.
  • Work with other teams to troubleshoot and resolve development and design issues.
  • Participate in new product scope specification.
  • Review product designs for compliance with engineering principles, company standards, and customer requirements and specifications.
  • Lead work teams, oversee other team members' work, and mentor less-senior team members.

About the Company

Daifuku

Manufactures and integrates material handling systems

Daifuku manufactures and integrates material handling systems for warehouses, factories, and distribution centers. It offers conveyors, automated storage and retrieval systems, automated guided vehicles, and software that coordinates routing, sequencing, and inventory visibility. The company differentiates itself with a long history, global reach, and turnkey solutions from design through installation and after-sales support. Its goal is to improve supply chains by reducing labor, increasing throughput, and enhancing accuracy in material handling.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Osaka, Japan
Founded
1937

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