Product Engineer

About the role

Clopay Corporation is seeking a Product Engineer to join its Mason, Ohio team. The role involves resolving product issues, leading design projects, and driving cost‑reduction initiatives across multiple manufacturing plants.

Key responsibilities

• Resolve product design, feature enhancements, value engineering, installation, and application issues while collaborating with Marketing, Sales, Production, Quality, Manufacturing Engineering, and Purchasing.
• Implement strategic, multi‑plant product engineering projects using the engineering change process.
• Lead design projects with capital expenditures up to $1,000,000.
• Initiate and implement product improvement and cost‑reduction ideas.
• Troubleshoot production problems related to engineering specifications and bills of material.
• Create detailed engineering analyses based on testing, scientific theory, and engineering principles for new product lines or extensions.
• Communicate product specifications and changes to internal and external customers and provide training.
• Develop product cost and capital expenditure data as required.
• Travel as needed to customers, manufacturing plants, and vendors.

Required profile

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering or Engineering Technology.
• Minimum 4 years of product engineering experience in the building products industry or 6 years in other product engineering roles.
• Heavy involvement in product design and specifications.
• Professional Engineer (P.E.) license is a plus.
• Mechanical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering Technology preferred.

Required skills

• Mechanical engineering principles.
• Product design and specification development.
• Engineering change management.
• Bill of Materials (BOM) analysis.
• Cost reduction and capital expenditure analysis.