Sustaining Design & Process Engineer

Position Summary

The Sustaining Design & Process Engineer is responsible for leading product and process changes driven by customer requests and internal improvement initiatives. This role serves as the primary technical liaison between CelLink’s engineering teams and key customers, ensuring that design modifications—such as layout revisions or material/component substitutions—are accurately translated into CAD, implemented seamlessly on the manufacturing line, and validated through internal testing. This is a high-impact, hands-on role that operates at the intersection of product engineering, manufacturing, and customer engagement.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

To perform this job successfully, the individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Customer Engagement & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Serve as a primary engineering point of contact for customer-requested product changes (e.g., layout, material, component updates)
• Perform or support customer and internal drawing releases
• Work closely with customer and internal teams to ensure strong communication and seamless implementation
• Participate in design review and DFMEA meetings to incorporate lessons learned and best practices
• Support validation testing to complete bench and vehicle-level durability

Design & Engineering Development

• 3D CAD modeling capability
• Design components for progressive die and injection molding processes
• Mature design projects from concept development through prototype and production phases
• Apply knowledge of material science with resins and metals
• Efficiently utilize rapid prototyping methods to demonstrate proof of concept

Manufacturing Support & Process Readiness

• Troubleshoot, root cause, and document issues; drive resolution through structured problem-solving
• Collaborate with manufacturing and suppliers to ensure readiness of diagnostic tools for production deployment and service
• Follow APQP processes for project documentation and launch readiness

Minimum Qualifications

Experience/Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or related fields.
• 2+ years of product design experience.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Experience with 3D CAD systems, SolidWorks preferred.
• Experience with product development of High Voltage / Low Voltage automotive connection systems (design attributes and industry specifications) is strongly desired.
• Experience to support product development/manufacture during DV/PV/SOP phases.
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate with various internal and external teams.
• A results-driven, enthusiastic, and eager personality is highly desired!

Physical Demands and Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.

Working Conditions/Hours

Salaried Exempt

• Able/willing to travel as needed.
• Available/willing to work overtime to meet project commitments, as required.

Physical Demands – Office and Manufacturing Environment

While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to use hands or fingers, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee is required to stand; walk; sit; reach with hands and arms pull/push; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must lift and/or move up to 50 pounds without assistance. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment –

Includes both a typical office environment, with minimal exposure to excessive noise or adverse environmental issues, and a shop environment, with exposure to high noise levels from operating machines, physical hazards from moving equipment and machine parts, nuisance dust, and skin exposure to chemicals used to run/maintain machines

PPE-

May be required to wear Personal Protective Equipment, including but not limited to safety glasses, safety shoes, bump caps, gloves, hair nets, masks, & clean-room frocks while adhering to the prescribed safety procedures