Posting Title: Senior Product Developer

Reports To: Director of Product Development

Location: Edgerton, Wisconsin

Salary Range: $130,000 - $150,000

Final determination of a successful candidate’s starting pay will vary based on a number of factors, including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, education and experience. The pay scale listed for this position is generally for candidates that meet the specified qualifications and requirements listed on this specific job description. We provide a competitive compensation package that recognizes your experience, credentials, and education alongside a robust benefits program to meet your needs. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets.

WHO WE ARE

For nearly 70 years, Cupertino Electric, Inc. (CEI) has been powered by people who’ve built a reputation for delivering high-profile, complex projects. Real, tangible things that alter the landscape and improve lives. But even more than that, we’ve built a reputation for integrity. We’re problem solvers and innovation seekers. We’re team players and safety fanatics. And we always—always—do the right thing. Even when no one is looking. Because what we do here is important, but how we do it is everything.

THE MODULAR TEAM

Modular solutions by CEI anticipate and solve ongoing problems for data center operators. Our proven, factory-built and tested data center infrastructure products bring deployments online faster, more reliably, and with less risk than conventional methods.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Sr. Product Developer is the primary lead of all product development activities for a single product type. They manage a team that translates customer requirements into specific product form, fit and function, and then producing detailed drawings, 3D models and documents that define the product. The Sr. Product Developer heads a team consisting of Product Developers, Product Engineers and Product Coordinators focused on one or more product types.

Goals & Objectives:

• Provide leadership to all staff in all product development efforts.

• Produce feasible product design that meets the customer’s requirements.

• Assist in transmitting the product definition to the plant team.

• Support the cost pricing and labor estimates facilitated by the project management team.

• Hold product team accountable for specific deliverables for completeness, accuracy, and timeliness.

• Provide outside consultants with the information they need to complete their deliverables.

• Identify and acquire tools and resources the team needs to fulfill their responsibilities.

Responsibilities:

• Providing leadership and supervision of their product development team.

• Developing the Product Definition Package including drawings, SOW and BOM.

• Support the Project Management team with the BOM and recommended vendor.

• Ensuring team members clearly understand their responsibilities.

• Train and mentor new hires and existing staff.

• Participating in customer meetings where product requirements are discussed.

• Documenting customer requirements.

• Coordinate delivery of design details to the BIM team.

• Review and approval of BIM deliverables through ACC.

• Provide constructability/manufacturability input to the BIM team.

• Provide required information to outside engineering consultants.

• Review and approve deliverables from outside consultants.

• Leading design and engineering meetings and synthesize ideas into manufacturable form factors for further evaluation.

• Assigning specific deliverables to team members.

• Manage design working sessions with the customer and facilitate the evaluation process and option selection.

• Establish the product development schedule and hold the team accountable for completing work on time.

• Preparing customer presentations, including illustrations, bills of materials, layout drawings, section details, and ROM Budgets.

• Partner with their peer product developers as required.

• Facilitate an Ideation kick-off meeting for entire modular team.

• Help Project management kick-off meeting with design details.

Weekly & Monthly Responsibilities:

• Conduct weekly team progress meetings

• Participate in monthly cross product update meetings

• Maintain a best practices library and issue quarterly findings

• Support continuous improvement initiatives

• Respond to customer’s monthly forecasts

• Prepare product development summary for quarterly all hands meetings.

• Prepare Quarterly brainstorm analysis of at least (1) new cost savings idea.

ABOUT YOU

• Ability to do autonomous research on materials, functions, or processes

• Ability to draw, sketch or illustrate

• Ability to translate abstract concepts into concrete design ideas

• Familiarity with MS Project, ACC, Navis and Bluebeam Revu

• Ability to read and accurately interpret electrical and mechanical design drawings including single line diagrams, control diagrams and process piping diagrams

• Familiarity with OSHA safety provisions

• Familiarity with NETA testing requirements

• Familiarity with NFPA 70E Electrical Safety provisions

• Robust knowledge of NEC/NFPA codes and requirements

• Exceptional manufacturing and/or electrical background

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Any combination of education and experience that would likely provide the required knowledge, skills and abilities as well as possession of any required licenses or certifications is qualifying.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in electrical, mechanical, or industrial engineering.

Licensure/Certifications: N/A

Experience: 4 to 5 years’ experience as a product designer in an industrial environment; or licensed electrician with 6-to-8-year experience as a commercial or industrial electrician with at least 3 years leading modular product manufacturing.

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CEI is a place where every single person can—and does—have an impact on the work we do and the communities we serve. Here, you can build your own story and grow to your full potential. You can collaborate and celebrate with amazing people. And you’ll go home every day knowing you helped contribute to important work that shapes people’s lives. Our commercial, data center and energy projects may be complex, but our approach is simple. We build great things and we do it with great people.

The job duties listed are typical examples of work performed by positions in this job classification and are not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, tasks, and responsibilities. Specific duties and responsibilities may vary depending on department, program or project needs without changing the general nature and scope of the job or level of responsibility. Employees may also perform other duties as assigned.

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Cupertino Electric, Inc. (CEI) is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and affirmative action employer. We celebrate diversity and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law.