Design Engineer
Full Time • Bloomfield
Salamander Designs, Ltd. is a leading manufacturer of premium quality, highly customizable furniture for residential and commercial audio/video integration. Salamander’s advanced furniture systems feature a high level of configurability and adaptability that allow users to best meet their present and future needs. Products are built to order in the USA and quick ship within days.
We continue to grow and are seeking an experienced Design Engineer to meet our growth opportunities.
Through the ingenuity of our people and efficient manufacturing techniques, we deliver furniture systems at a quality and efficiency that ensure customer satisfaction and success.
The Design Engineer is responsible for managing a variety of tasks including Product design and development, customization of existing products. In addition, you will assist the Production team to develop assembly processes and troubleshoot any issues on the production floor.
Opportunities for career growth and performance bonuses are available.
This position is full-time in Office at our Bloomfield, CT facility.
This position is full-time in Office at our Bloomfield, CT facility.
Key Skills and experience:
- Previous experience in mechanical drafting, manufacturing or other related fields
- Software skills; SolidWorks CAD, AutoCAD, Microsoft
- Deadline and detail-oriented
- Secondary Skills preferred:
- Manufacturing Process engineering (SOP’s)
- Quality Control, Continuous improvement, Lean Manf, 5S
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Prepare Design documents - Solid models, manufacturing part prints and Assemblies in SolidWorks
- Bills of materials (BOM) created for new or customized products
- First Article Inspections (FAI) - Periodic quality audits of all parts and assemblies.
- Review and modify designs to reduce production deficiencies
- Manufacturing team support - Work closely with production supervisor to solve production issues caused by non-confirming materials.
- Manufacturing engineering - Assist in development of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for production floor for new products and custom jobs (pre-job brief).
- Product Testing / Compliance – assist in testing of products to meet specified criteria, ie. UL compliance
Benefits
- IRA
- IRA Matching
- Medical/Dental/Vision
- Paid Time Off
Compensation: $75,000.00 - $80,000.00 per year
Salamander Designs….”Furniture Shaped by Your Needs”
For more than 20 years, Salamander Designs® has been designing innovative, specialized furniture systems that are shaped by your needs.
Why Was the Company Started?
Originally, Salamander grew out of an idea developed by Salvatore Carrabba in the early 1990s. During a search for furniture to support and display his home entertainment components, Sal discovered there was nothing in the marketplace that met his requirements. He was hoping to find furniture of good quality that could be configured to meet his current needs, but flexible enough to accommodate his entertainment system as it changed over time.
Sal decided to apply his background in sculpture and design to create some furniture on his own, and the Archetype System of shelving was born. The positive response to his designs from family and friends convinced him that others might be interested in his designs as well. So, in 1992 Sal founded Salamander Designs, Ltd. Since then it has become a leader in the consumer electronics furniture marketplace, offering advanced flexible solutions for audio and video enthusiasts.
Sal decided to apply his background in sculpture and design to create some furniture on his own, and the Archetype System of shelving was born. The positive response to his designs from family and friends convinced him that others might be interested in his designs as well. So, in 1992 Sal founded Salamander Designs, Ltd. Since then it has become a leader in the consumer electronics furniture marketplace, offering advanced flexible solutions for audio and video enthusiasts.
HOW WE OPERATE
We at Salamander are heavily process driven and strive for Continuous Improvement in everything that we do. Quality control is a key focus for our company and we measure our performance frequently.
MADE TO ORDER
Our facility is designed for materials and production to flow through an efficient process. Salamander manages using “Lean Manufacturing” principles and “pull manufacturing” techniques. This process allows us to Build-to-order thereby allowing us to carry virtually no finished goods stock. The concept is for the customer to “pull” the product through production with his order…they ask for it and we build it.
OUR FACILITY
Salamander is located in Bloomfield, Connecticut and occupies a modern 85,000 SF facility just north of Hartford and 2 hours from Boston and New York City.
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