Product Design Supervisor

3 months ago

Barrie, Canada Wolf Steel Ltd. Full time

Napoleon leads the way with innovative engineering, advanced manufacturing techniques, unsurpassed customer service and remarkable product quality. Our award-winning products offer a best-in-class experience for all customers’ home comfort needs. While we are proudly Canadian, Napoleon is also fortunate to operate on a world-side scale.

The warmth and experience that a Napoleon product brings to the homes of our customers transcends borders, language, and cultures to enhance everyday living across the globe. Throughout North America, Europe, South America and Asia, Napoleon creates memorable moments through our stunning designs and innovative technologies.

**Reports to**: Product Engineering Manager

**Location**: 214 Bayview Drive, Barrie (hybrid)

**Job Purpose**:Leads the product design team to create designs which fulfill the Company's strategic goals while integrating the needs of marketing, sales and manufacturing departments. The Product Design Supervisor designs and develops from concept new and improved appliances, drafts specifications for components, assemblies and manufacturing, directs the creation of prototype models or samples and fine-tunes designs through validation until they are ready for production.

**Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities**:

- Assist with the specification of market requirements, (physical, technical and aesthetic), for current and future products by conducting comprehensive market research, supported by on-going visits/meetings to/with customers, (internal and external) and non-customers, (associations, bodies, etc.).
- Make recommendations based on research for the development and ongoing maintenance of a detailed and overarching product portfolio strategy and product roadmap.
- Develop hands-on, in-depth knowledge of competitive products, organizing relevant benchmarking and maintain technical analysis of competitive strengths and weaknesses of current and planned product portfolio.
- Support market assessments and competitive analyses to identify product opportunities whether new or redesigned to address different/future needs.
- Research to be conducted both independently and collaboratively with other cross functions.
- Define the technical concept that will meet the technical requirements, aesthetics and target production cost.
- Review the design to ensure progress to technical goals and deadlines.
- Ensure that design and peer reviews are completed prior to each stage gate and after each test phase.
- Document all issues and where necessary defines recovery plans to resolve
- Manage design team to ensure design for manufacture, design for service and design for installation are optimized during development, including obtaining cross functional input, (internal and external) and personally validating the suitability of the designs.
- Works with the validation team and Customer Solutions to analyze similar products to understand and implement product improvements and where applicable solicits end Customer feedback.
- Conduct risk assessments and recommend appropriate plans.
- Ensure the design teams focuses on design to cost, initiating the necessary activities throughout the development process to established production costs and take corrective actions as necessary to achieve target cost. This includes consistently estimating and then maintaining cost from conception to production.
- Uses excel or other tools such as “quote master” to build up preliminary cost estimates for Gate 1 and works with finance to develop maturity for Gate 2. Work with the cross functional team and, where applicable, the project launch manager to address parts suitable for outsourcing to reduce cost, (or improve capacity utilization).
- Additionally work with purchasing to identify parts that have long lead items, special requirements, processes or may require new vendors.
- Plan and manage prototype phase(s),
- Assist in the creation and assembly of a functional prototype, and fabricated prototype parts and models.
- Review test results prepared by development team and make alterations to prototype to address any test failures.
- Evaluate using tools as "test to failure", early phase field testing, analyzing similar product, customer solutions data, ensuring lessons learnt and design checklists.
- Collaborate closely with quality, validation and product evaluation team.
- Plan and manage engineering production run and/or samples to validate the product design and drawings. Partners with the project launch manager / project administrators, where applicable, to successfully complete the process run, (where the intended process is validated), focusing on the technical readiness, (launch manager focusing on system readiness).
- Ensure all proposed design changes are documented and implemented in sufficient time to complete production run. Provide technical support for the remainder of the launch and production run, as required.
- Responsible to ensure new product introduction

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