Associate Product Engineer

Provides support for the Product Engineering team and Operations through configurator management and maintenance, implementation of engineering changes, contributing to product design and life cycle support, and executing other Engineering tasks and projects as required 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Manage the lifecycle of Engineering Change Requests (ECRs), Engineering Change Orders (ECOs), and Engineering Change Notices (ECNs).
• Lead management process of engineering changes across all functions of the operation, to evaluate risk, cost, timing, inventory, production, and customer impact and ensure timely and effective implementation.
• Track and ensure system material master, BOMs, routings, configurators, work orders, purchase orders, inventory (location and disposition), effectivity dates, and sales orders are evaluated for potential impact and updated as required to support the      changes being implemented while optimizing benefits versus costs.
• Utilize, improve, and distribute checklists, metrics, and reports that facilitate change process execution and improvement.
• Manage PDM and Asana workflows to ensure fluid implementations.
• Maintain working knowledge of configuration logic structure and rule authoring, serving as subject matter expert and administrator for configuration logic for product changes under Product Engineering guidance.
• Support ongoing validation of configuration rules against engineering-defined product constraints (load ratings, component compatibility, certification scope, regional variants).
• Review 3rd-party CAD deliverables integrated into the customer portal
• Work closely with Sustaining engineering to maintain alignment between Configit/Epicor logic and the engineering design record.
• Analyze technical data to support engineering projects, improvement opportunities, and system performance.
• Support audit and accuracy check of customer-facing configuration outputs.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned. 

Required Qualifications: 

• Associate's degree, technical certificate, or equivalent experience in mechanical design, or engineering technology.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills —comfortable building structured models, using complex formulas, and organizing data systematically.
• Systematic thinker: able to understand and apply rules-based logic, constraint structures, and interdependency mapping.
• Attention to detail and personal ownership of output quality.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• BS Engineering, Engineering technology or related field highly preferred.
• Experience with SolidWorks PDM or equivalent vault/document control system.
• Exposure to any configure-price-quote (CPQ) platform, rules engine, or product configurator — Configit, Oracle CPQ, SAP Variant Configuration, Epicor or similar.
• Basic programming or scripting experience: VBA macros, Python, SQL, or equivalent — not required to be advanced, but evidence of self-directed logic building.
• Background in industrial or mechanical equipment manufacturing.