Position: Project Engineer
Location: Victaulic World HQ In Easton, PA -
Department: Product Development, Engineering Department
Reports to: Director, Fluid Control Technology - Engineering Technology

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About Us:
Victaulic is a global leader in mechanical pipe joining innovations and is the world's leading producer of mechanical pipe joining solutions. The company has 13 manufacturing facilities and 28 branches worldwide with 4,400 employees who speak 43 languages across the globe. With over 2000 global patents, Victaulic solutions are at work in more than 140 countries across diverse business lines including oil and gas, chemical, mining, power generation, water and wastewater treatment, military and marine, as well as commercial building and fire protection. Since the 1950’s Victaulic has been providing ground-breaking fire protection products and system solutions for challenges faced by engineers, contractors, property managers and fire marshals. Victaulic is a leading fire protection manufacturer of innovative fire products and fire fighting systems including fire sprinklers, fire extinguishing and fire suppression systems, pipe couplings and fittings, and flow control valves. These products are used in commercial, infrastructure and industrial applications to protect people and property.

Job Scope:

Responsible for the development and maintenance of commercially successful Victaulic fluid control products. These products include new and revised valves such as ball, butterfly check, knife gates and other fluid control devices for Victaulic and its subsidiaries.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Development from inception through steady state production, which includes:

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  Concept generation.
• Specific design ideas to satisfy concept(s).
• Application of analytic analysis including FEA and CFD.
• Modeling of concept (via drawings and/or hardware).
• Interfacing with Product Managers/Marketing/Sales to refine concept to meet customer requirements.
• Manufacturability and costing of initial design.
• Comprehensive presentation and communication of ides to all levels of management
• Leading of a multi-departmental team (formal or informal) in the execution of detailed design all the way through to the product being marketed including:
• Design to meet requirements and manufacturability issues.
• Detail drawing review and approval.
• Vendor selection participation (in-house or out).
• Prototyping.
• Testing against requirements.
• Solving design problems.
• Scrutiny and review of detailed cost estimates.
• Leading design reviews to assure customer and performance requirements are met.
• Resolving tolerance issues.
• Development of EI/EP/ES's as appropriate.
• Participation in tooling selection.
• Approval of tooling based on samples.
• Participation/evaluation of pilot production runs and problem solving.
• Technical literature drafts and approval.
• Education/training of Marketing/Sales and Engineering Services staff about new product.
• Periodic travel to customers, agencies, vendors, manufacturing sites in support of assigned projects.
• Contribute to future new product ideas, which will benefit Victaulic and positively differentiate Victaulic from our competition (Vision).

Specific policies and procedures have been established by the Engineering Department to provide for the security and accessibility of electronic data and confidential information. It is the responsibility of the employee, in the daily course of doing business, to follow said policies as they relate to document management. The extent to which departmental research and development information is stored electronically has vastly increased and will continue to do so. The new Federal rules pertaining to electronic discovery stipulate that substantive email communications constituted "records" under the Federal Records Act. It is therefore the responsibility of each departmental employee to understand their role in communicating via e-mails and that all e-mails must be written/responded to in a professional manner.

Qualifications:

• BS / MS in appropriate engineering field.
• Minimum of 3 years of commercially successful valve design and development experience is required.
• Commercially successful experience in product development involving Product Technology or related products/processes.
• Successful project management experience inclusive of taking projects from concept through production.
• Creative, able to generate concepts with good potential that meet project requirements. Well-developed business communication skills.
• Demonstrated business acumen and communication skills.