Senior Product Engineer

Overview

In this role you apply deep polymer/materials expertise to translate customer feedback into new heat shrink and cable marker solutions. You work with cross‑functional teams to qualify products and ensure robust manufacturing and reliable performance across lifecycles. You act as a technical authority on heat shrink materials and processes, driving risk assessment and continuous improvement. You will mentor colleagues and contribute to decisions that balance technical rigor with time‑to‑market objectives.

Responsibilities

• Support and sustain the heat shrink identification sleeves and cable marker product portfolio
• Develop new products and material solutions aligned to customer and market needs
• Translate customer feedback and market opportunities into product development initiatives
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to evaluate, qualify, and improve products and materials
• Act as a technical authority for heat shrink tubing materials and processes across multiple product families
• Assess technical risks associated with material, process, and supplier changes and provide recommendations
• Support engineering change, validation, qualification, and deviation activities
• Ensure product safety, compliance, reliability, and manufacturing robustness throughout the product lifecycle
• Apply expertise in polymer materials, compounding, extrusion, irradiation, cross-linking, and expansion processes to optimize product performance
• Provide technical leadership through mentoring, knowledge sharing, and influencing technical decisions
• Support customer and supplier technical reviews, issue resolution, and value engineering activities
• Drive continuous improvement through technical best practices and fact-based decision making

Key requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Polymer Science, Materials Science, or a related technical discipline
• Advanced degree or equivalent industry experience preferred
• Strong knowledge of heat shrink tubing materials, processes, and product performance
• Understanding of polymer systems, additives, fillers, and pigments
• Expertise in compounding, extrusion, irradiation, cross-linking, and expansion processes
• Significant experience in heat shrink tubing or polymer-based product engineering
• Experience leading material selection, process assessment, qualification, validation, and lifecycle support activities
• Experience managing material, process, and supplier changes with a strong focus on risk assessment
• Experience working across global manufacturing sites and cross-functional teams
• Experience partnering with customers and suppliers on technical projects and issue resolution
• Knowledge of engineering and quality tools including FMEA, validation planning, root cause analysis, and failure analysis
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
• Ability to communicate complex technical information to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Strong collaboration, stakeholder management, and influencing skills
• Ability to balance technical rigor with business priorities and time-to-market objectives
• Demonstrated ownership, accountability, and commitment to continuous improvement

• collaboration
• stakeholder management
• influencing
• heat shrink tubing materials
• polymer systems
• compounding

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