Current Products Mechanical Engineer

Job description

Trove Brands is a privately-held house of brands including BlenderBottle®, Owala®, Whiskware®, and Eco-Brite®. Our patented and best-selling products are designed to simplify and improve everyday life with leading-edge innovation, incomparable quality, and aspirational style. A career at Trove Brands is not about punching the clock. It’s about embracing exciting and fast-paced opportunities that sharpen your skills, drive innovation, and play an integral role in growing our global reach. Your work will not only impact the company, it will impact the lives of millions of people around the world. When you step up to a career at Trove, you step up to cutting-edge excellence. You sign up for bold action and invigorating synergy. You agree to face—and break through—new challenges every single day. The Current Products Mechanical Engineer will be responsible for maintaining current product lines and will proactively monitor product reviews and feedback from sales, customer service, marketing and executive teams to identify product quality/cost/usability improvements. This person will develop product improvement concepts, conduct feasibility studies, coordinate validation testing on new and modified designs. They will also support production increases by evaluating and qualifying capacity tooling. This candidate has the ability to use state-of-the-art CAD and analysis tools to create mechanical designs, primarily consisting of injection-molded plastic, extruded parts, and accessory components, from initial concepts through prototyping and into high volume production. This person works closely with internal and/or external partners to generate all necessary documentation and test plans to ensure that products meet specification. Lastly they will monitor feedback from customers to identify, correct production quality problems and interact directly with Asian manufacturing facilities and travel to Asia will be required. Ensure product features achieve cost, schedule, reliability, and regulatory/safety goals. **Key Responsibilities:** - Manage tooling for all products after initial product release. - Work with forecasting and purchasing teams to develop and approve capacity tooling as required. - Monitor product quality metrics, identify and implement product improvements across the supply chain. - Engage with factories to resolve issues identified in incoming quality inspections. - Provide regular feedback to the rest of the product team to make sure that product learnings are incorporated into new products under development. - Participates in mechanical engineering evaluation and test to validate the robustness and proper performance of new products. - Utilizes best-in-class tools to develop innovative mechanical solutions to highly complex problems. - Protect company intellectual property through design and patent application processes. **Required** **Qualifications:** - B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering. - 5-10 years of relevant experience in mechanical and/or product design development - Proficient in 3D CAD modeling/design. - Demonstrated experience and knowledge of materials properties and fabrication processes. Strong preference given to experience with injection molding. - Working understanding of principals of reliability testing, design of experiments, materials and process. - Experience with Asia OEM partners and manufacturing suppliers preferred. Travel to global manufacturing sites will be necessary. **Desired Qualifications:** - Consumer goods experience - Specific experience in SolidWorks Our culture is passionate, entrepreneurial, and energetic. We value innovation through collaboration. And while we work smart and hard, we also connect and celebrate with equal gusto. We host team-building activities, athletic events, and seasonal celebrations to foster community and reward accomplishments. Bottom line? You’ll love it here. Among the many benefits our team members enjoy are: - Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision care - 401k package with employer matching - Paid Time Off - Maternity/Paternity leave - Full indoor basketball/volleyball court - Fully equipped fitness center (cardio, weights, functional fitness area, lockers and showers, etc.) - Yoga studio - Meditation/Nap room - And much more! *Trove Brands is an equal opportunity employer.* *Phone calls regarding this position are not accepted.* ***This is a fully in-office position at our HQ in Lehi, Utah.***