Working at Watlow
Watlow is a global technology and manufacturing leader who provides world class engineering expertise through innovative thermal products and systems, enabling our customers to thrive. We are making a positive impact every day as our solutions enrich the lives of people everywhere. We have been providing breakthrough thermal solutions for over 100 years!
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 at 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.
Our corporate values guide us uncompromisingly to always do the right thing, continually learn and improve, respect everyone, and lead with service and humility.
