Description:

This position supports FERNO's Engineering Department in Wilmington, OH with emergency pre-hospital patient handling products. Primary responsibilities include support for both the Engineering and Production teams in the design, manufacturing, and supply chain quality of batteries, chargers, and other electrical assemblies.

The Project Engineer will work closely with functional and cross functional team members in the global company including those in engineering, operations/production, product management, service, quality, and regulatory departments. The Project Engineer will be responsible for various portions of product development, product sustaining, quality assurance and manufacturing activities.

The Project Engineer will work autonomously with support from other engineers to ensure reliable batteries, chargers, harnesses, PCBAs, and electrical assemblies as part of a growing platform of powered EMS products. The Project Engineer will work with functional leaders internal to FERNO, contract engineering firms, contract manufacturers, vendors, and field service providers.

Requirements:

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Primary functions:

• Responsible for the reliability, quality, supplier selection, supplier quality, of existing and new batteries, chargers, harnesses, PCBAs, and electrical assemblies.
• Responsible for LiFePO4 battery management program for a global company from concept to customer delivery to include design, manufacture, storage, shipping, and other duties as assigned.
• Responsible for charger and other electrical assembly management programs for a global company from concept to customer delivery to include design, manufacture, storage, shipping, and other duties as assigned.
• Multiple project track record of management as lead engineer accountable to business for program success. NPI experience a plus.
• Exposure to and/or basic engineering understanding of design principles related to circuit design, layout, PCBAs, BMS, battery technologies, embedded firmware, ST and PIC microcontrollers, wiring harnesses, connectors, injection molds, metalworking, machining.
• Familiarity with IEC, UL, UN, CSA, IATA, CE, and EN electrical and regulatory standards.
• Design/re-design of FDA, ISO 13485, ISO 14971, MDD 93/42/EEC, MDR compliant products.
• Participate in Engineering Change Order and/or Phase-Gate processes for assigned programs to include QMS compliance.
• Maintain and update design drawings and models utilizing Solidworks and/or Altium.
• Participate in formulation of design specifications, material specifications, concept, prototyping, tolerance stack-ups, DFM, DFA, DFS, vendor integration, design reviews, FMEA development, usability assessment, design transfer readiness and introduction.
• Review of product verification and validation test plans and results.
• Work with test engineering, quality and regulatory to ensure products maintain certification to various standards.
• Lead communication on assigned programs and provide issue escalation support to internal and external customers.
• Develop solutions to improve product quality and reduce product cost.
• Exposure to and/or basic understanding of principles associated with electro-mechanical/hydraulic devices to include DC motors, pumps, cylinders, manifolds, and control system design.
• Working knowledge of GD&T/ANSI standards.
• Strong product affinity and results orientation.
• Exposure to global shipping regulations of batteries.

Administrative functions:

Lead QMS compliance activities for multiple FERNO sites

Conduct internal audits of FERNO sites and vendor sites

Produce Quality Management System (QMS) procedures and work instructions for site(s)

Assist in diagnosing field issues and developing corrective actions

Assist with qualificat