Overview
Lucifer Lighting Company is a privately held San Antonio-based designer and manufacturer of precision-engineered architectural lighting fixtures. You'll find our products worldwide and our customers are leading architects and designers who value service, quality, and innovation.
Lucifer Lighting Company is an equal opportunity employer.
Position Summary
Responsible for product development from concept through production, leading electro-mechanical product design and/or redesign, part assembly and detailed part drawings. This position is based in our New York City showroom.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Design work varies from new product development to product enhancements and may involve work with problem jobs or field fixes.
- Develops and distributes engineering data in the form of Engineering Change Notices, bills of material and parts tracking. Brings forth the solutions mentioned above, does not simply identify problems.
- Collaborates with and influences cross functional members of the design team, presenting and communicating project status updates. Mentors and leads other engineers.
- Simultaneously manages multiple projects while effectively influencing, negotiating, and communicating with internal and external partners to generate high-quality, cost-effective solutions.
- Initiates and develops multiple concepts for new products from Market Requirement Specification (MRS).
- Maintains project timelines and determines course corrective actions if required on a project.
- Manages prototyping, testing, and assembly of samples and maintains engineering-related equipment at the NYC satellite office.
- Provide advanced notice to factory-based Engineering Technicians for project coordination and support.
- Attends or leads team meetings on the product delivery system for each major product. When heading a project, the senior design engineer is expected to run these meetings.
- Develops and documents thermal, photometric, regulatory testing plans.
- Generates and revises CAD models, component inspection, prototype build and product testing.
- Points out weak points in designs, works with cross functional team to minimize or remove all that exist.
- Utilizes best practices, including DFM, DFA, and tolerance stack analysis in collaboration with Manufacturing and Supply Chain to ensure designs are optimized for cost, quality, and performance.
- Navigates the regulatory aspects of a project completely without support.
- Travel to Headquarters in Texas 4–5 times per year (approximately 3 nights per trip) for collaboration with factory teams.
- Attend in person designer meetings or visit New York-area job sites as needed.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Experienced in 2D, 3D CAD software (AutoCAD, SolidWorks).
- Experience with Project Management
- High sense of urgency with ability to prioritize multiple projects.
- Waterfall/gate style product development experience. Experience with Agile a secondary priority.
- Knowledge of Lean and ideally Kaizen, continuous improvement, poka-yoke, 5S.
- Highly proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Required Education and Experience
- 5+ years' experience with lighting product development
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical, electromechanical, or other technical/analytical field
- Detailed knowledge of UL and CSA standards and the NEC
- Moderate knowledge of some or all the CE, NOM, IEC standards
- Detailed knowledge of castings (die and investment), forgings, plastic injection moldings, extrusions, machining, heat sink design, sheet metal, surface treatments (powder coating, painting, plating), stamping, drawing.
- Moderate knowledge in light sources and LED Technologies, including LEDs, COBs, PCBs, Drivers, Control Systems, thermal management (simulation and testing)
- Previous ERP software experience.
- Moderate knowledge of electrical circuits, reliability, wiring, control protocols
Preferred Education and Experience
- Extensive experience with IP testing, gasket design and thermal simulations.
- High experience with IP portfolio development and management
- Based in NYC showroom with local and domestic travel as described in the position summary.
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