Concept Engineer
INNOVATE WITHOUT BOUNDARIES! At Milwaukee Tool we firmly believe that our People and our Culture are the bookends of our success. Our employees work with a passion to never settle and always improve, enabling us to push the status quo and change the lives of our users.
Our Engineering Team is responsible for creating innovative solutions that address the unmet needs of our customers. We do this through increasing our users’ productivity by integrating new technologies and methodologies to deliver new-to-world products and product enhancements. Our concept team starts the journey by focusing on understanding the end user and market forces, without bias or other influences, to develop a deep understanding of the end user’s troubles, both today and in the future, and inefficiencies on both observable, current tasks, and unobservable, future tasks which are not able to be performed with technology afforded to product solutions on the market today. Our team translates the challenges into ideas through alignment with our Business Leaders, identification of available and developing technologies, and further building upon our heritage of almost a century of innovative accessories.
Our concept engineers further transform the ideas into physical concepts that embody the needs of the end user through a cyclic process of theoretical analysis, empirical testing, and obtaining candid user feedback. Through our process, our team delivers the information and embodiment of a concept to help guide the business to develop a strategic pathway for a product or category.
Behind our doors you’ll be empowered every day to own it, drive it, and do what it takes to design and develop the biggest breakthroughs in the industry. Meanwhile, you’ll have the support and resources of the fastest-growing brand in the construction industry to make it happen.
The TOOLS you’ll need to have:
Embraces high agility work in the vague and unpredictable early phases of developing a product in a new or emerging category within Milwaukee Tool through planning, organization, and effective communication.
Develop, demonstrate, and apply science and technology to create innovative concepts and solutions.
Work closely with other core competencies within the organization (Marketing, Materials, Technology, Reliability, Testing, Rapid Prototyping, and others) to develop concepts which demonstrate performance.
Participate in local and regional field research. Define benefits that are critical to our users, describe the science to achieve the benefits, and design concepts to execute on those benefits while leveraging and incorporating our proprietary technology when possible.
Perform a wide variety of engineering and design tasks including but not limited to:
Translating user observations to insights
3D modeling in NX and/or SolidWorks
Engineering Analyses of mechanical, motion, thermal, and CFD using ANSYS
Training in GD&T, Design of Experiments a plus
You may be expected to report progress of projects at regular management reviews to senior management including developments, learnings, and key findings.
What TOOLS you’ll bring with you:
Minimum Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Mechanics, Mechanical Engineering Technology, Engineering Physics, and/or Related Field
Strong mechanical aptitude with a strength in science, physics, engineering materials, mechanical properties, and manufacturing processes
Ability to travel internationally & domestically several times per year is required (15% travel).
Personal attributes: highly motivated, entrepreneurial, innovative, collaborative, dynamic
Superior communication skills
Engaged team member with a hands-on attitude
Not afraid to fail in order to learn
High interest and/or experience with tools of the trade
Our Perks and Benefits:
Robust health, dental and vision insurance plans
Generous 401 (K) savings plan
Education assistance
On-site wellness, fitness center, food, and coffee service
And many more, check out our benefits site HERE
