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R&D Mechanical Engineer

Salt Lake City, UT

Welcome To The Traegerhood:

Our business is BBQ, and business tastes good. Traeger invented the wood pellet grill over 30 years ago, and we’ve been revolutionizing outdoor cooking ever since. We’re a team of disruptors, innovators, problem solvers, and food fanatics who are dedicated to bringing people together to create a more flavorful world. From our headquarters in Salt Lake City and beyond, we work tirelessly to provide a world-class experience to our customers, retailers, and especially our employees. If you’re a team player who’s dedicated to delivering top-quality results every day, then we want you to come cook with us!

What You'll Do:

Traeger is seeking a Mechanical Engineer to join our APRD team, based in Salt Lake City, UT. In this role you will be responsible for developing innovative engineering solutions during the advanced development phase, ensuring a seamless transition into the product execution team. You will play a crucial role in creating discrete technology solutions that align with Traeger’s product roadmap, driving the company's innovation forward. As part of this responsibility, you will conceive, design, and prototype/fabricate products to visually demonstrate the design and engineering intent, providing tangible examples that clearly communicate the envisioned outcomes. Following the prototyping phase, the engineer will generate detailed technical documentation, ensuring that all executable information is accurately and comprehensively communicated to the appropriate teams for successful implementation.

This role demands a high level of organization, creativity, attention to detail, and extensive engineering knowledge to consistently launch innovative features and products. The individual must be adept at managing multiple projects simultaneously, maintaining meticulous records, and ensuring that all engineering solutions meet industry standards and regulatory requirements. Additionally, you will engage in collaborative activities with cross-functional teams, fostering a cooperative environment that encourages the sharing of ideas and expertise. 

How You Will Help Us Win:

  • Transfer consumer insights and Design Research into consumer desired features and products that provide the Product Management team a product innovation pipeline that delivers a best-in-class consumer experience.
  • Work closely with outside suppliers to deliver prototypes on time and at cost that are aligned to the team’s quality expectations.
  • Lead the technical mechanical engineering of advanced development staged projects to successful transfer into the execution teams.
  • Create robust 3D CAD/CAS model parts and assemblies that communicate design intent, function, and manufacturability.
  • Create and manage 2D engineering drawings that meet industry standards.
  • Perform engineering analysis on but not limited to mechanical statics and dynamics problems, mechanisms, FEA, CFD, concept selection, cost, and material selection.
  • Design and perform experimentation for early validation and verification of focused designs and full product concepts.
  • Provide design input for DFM and DFA during product development to ensure adherence to functional, aesthetic and regulatory requirements.
  • Review manufacturing feasibility analysis for new features and categories.
  • Work with tooling engineers and suppliers to ensure manufacturing feasibility.
  • Work with and manage fabrication/prototype suppliers to produce prototypes.
  • Work with the internal, domestic, and international team, as well as 3rd party vendors.
  • Manage a portfolio of projects as part of the Innovation Category Business Team and to ensure projects are on time, on budget, and meet performance requirements.

What You'll Need to Succeed:

  • Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering
  • 5-10 years of experience in the field or in a related area
  • Disciplined and data driven problem solving
  • Successful experience with Design for Cost and Design for Manufacture in consumer products
  • Ability to analyze and process data to reach and communicate data based recommendations
  • Experience with durable product development using a stage gate process
  • Interaction with overseas resources and ability to travel overseas is a must
  • Strong knowledge of PC based data acquisition
  • Initiative, and a wide degree of creativity is required
  • Highly self-motivated and self-directed with the ability to work with teams cross functionally
  • Must be knowledgeable and able, to design for a variety of manufacturing processes
  • Must have proven experience developing and designing products
  • Ability to create low and high-fidelity prototypes in a shop environment that includes hand and high power machine tools.
  • Have advanced CAD solid modeling, surface modeling, and sheet metal skills in SolidWorks
  • Ability to communicate ideas verbally and through sketches and mock ups
  • Sound knowledge and application experience of engineering principles including but not limited to thermodynamics and mechanics
  • Demonstrable interest and skill in the field of product design

Why You Will Love To Work Here:

  • Be part of the most disruptive force in outdoor cooking
  • Join a true team working towards a common goal
  • Culture of risk-taking, innovation & quality
  • So. Much. Food.
  • Have an outdoor lover’s paradise in your backyard
  • Full medical/dental/vision packages to fit your needs
  • 401K to help you plan for the future
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Individual professional development programs & initiatives to help you grow professionally
  • Great discounts on all things Traeger
  • Did we mention all the food?

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