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Key responsibilities
The primary responsibilities include:
- Completing assessment, cataloging and revision to current specification of technical drawings across the product portfolio
- Ongoing review, maintenance and optimization of Bill of Materials
- Conducting engineering for manufacture activities including part reduction, re-engineering and alternate supply to minimize cost without compromising performance
- Reviewing product Costs of Goods sold and taking a rounded approach to its reduction across product range
- Supporting the design and improvement of jigs and methods for assembly of hardware and system consumables
- Working in partnership with broad and international supplier network, owning and expanding supplier relationships
- Ensuring the developing and maintaining product manuals (internally and/or through outsourced contractors)
- Providing technical support and assistance to customers remotely and on-site
- Developing new designs for cost reduction with local partners of toilets, toilet cabins, and other key system features
- Research, Concept Development, Validation and Design engineering of new toilet system products to meet scopes/specifications defined by the business.
- Compliance with required regulations, approvals and certifications. Specifically, support the certification of existing and new products (in accordance with SABS and SANS)
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Required experience
- Proven self-starter who thrives on driving their work forward, problem solving and completing tasks
- Good interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to interact effectively at all levels within the business
- Strong analytical skills and an ability to work through problems logically
- Ability to work well under pressure and to meet tight deadlines
- Proficient with 2D and 3D CAD systems to create, modify and output data to appropriate ISO standards and for 3rd party use (eg. 3D Rapid Prototyping, tool & part & jig & fixture manufacture, image rendering etc)
- Familiarity with ISO 9001 Quality Management systems, their use and value within a product engineering environment
- Practical design and engineering workshop skills of suitable proficiency to make working prototypes, create product testing equipment, assemble and modify existing products and systems
Skills required for the role
- Recognised national or international technical qualification in a relevant discipline equivalent to
- Bachelors Degree level or higher, or sufficient on-the-job/applied evidence and references to convince that equivalent capability is available.
- Demonstrable capability to design, engineer, test, validate and improve new and existing electro-mechanical product assemblies composed of multiple interdependent components and sub-assemblies.
- Demonstrable capability to fully document and maintain specifications, drawings and other data that define a product or system, its function, performance and manufacture.
- Project management, analysis and communications capabilities that enables you to successfully manage your projects and tasks to time, cost and quality objectives. Which is also clear, concise and shared openly with the business team to report and manage progress.
Desirable experience
- Sanitation engineering, toilet design and engineering, waste water engineering
- Domestic appliance product design and engineering
- Design for circularity and sustainability. Knowledge of best practice for design, measurement and management.
- Polymer formulation, film blowing, and packaging design
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