Product Development Engineer 產品開發工程師(英文精通)

Authorized and responsible to perform all duties in accordance with BDEL Quality, Safety and Employee Policies and procedures: • Due to their proximity to key vendors, may support critical projects by supporting vendors, ensuring instructions and deliverables are clear, and articulating challenges and delays back to the design team. • Responsible for providing consultation, insight, and supporting data for constructions, materials, and factory capabilities related to a proposed design concept. • Responsible for coordinating finished product development, and manufacturing integration from design into bulk production. This may include oversight of all sales samples production to ensure alignment with Black Diamond’s documentation relating to the applicable products. • Authorized and responsible to provide development timeline status and task assignments through various project management delivery systems (ERP system, design team meetings, etc) • Responsible for the creation, proper and timely maintenance of all required development documentation as specified by the Dir of Product Development or relevant manager. • Consistently seeks out new technologies, bring them to the BD Design teams for future projects. This may require attending local trade shows, new vendors, or pushing existing vendors to adopt novel manufacturing methods that provide a competitive advantage to BD and its customers. • Strategic Supplier/Vendor Management - Working in close alignment with the Product side of the business and Supply Chain, the Product Development Engineer will actively participate in discovering, qualifying and managing relationships with Black Diamond’s strategic vendor base. These responsibilities include: o Understanding the sorts of vendor capabilities that are needed to bring to market innovative BD designs in the lowest cost manner possible o Managing this vendor base to assure adherence to all requirements established in BD’s Vendor Guide o Aligning vendor capacities with customer demand o Seeking to expand the vendor base to support demand growth o Establishing seasonal costing parameters and negotiating costing for in-line product o Conducting semi-annual vendor reviews