Current Products Mechanical Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Company Description

Trove Brands is a privately-held house of brands including BlenderBottle®, Owala®, EcoBrite™, and Whiskware®. Our patented and best-selling products are designed to simplify and improve everyday life with leading-edge innovation, incomparable quality, and aspirational style.

A career at Trove Brands is not about punching the clock. It’s about embracing exciting and fast-paced opportunities that sharpen your skills, drive innovation, and play an integral role in growing our global reach. Your work will not only impact the company, it will impact the lives of millions of people around the world. When you step up to a career at Trove, you step up to cutting-edge excellence. You sign up for bold action and invigorating synergy. You agree to face—and break through—new challenges every single day.

Job Description

The Current Products Mechanical Engineer will be responsible for maintaining current product lines.  Will proactively monitor product reviews and feedback from sales, customer service, marketing and executive teams to identify product quality / cost / usability improvements.  Develops product improvement concepts, conducts feasibility studies, coordinates validation testing on new and modified designs.  Supports production increases by evaluating and qualifying capacity tooling.

Has the ability to use state-of-the-art CAD and analysis tools to create mechanical designs, primarily consisting of injection-molded plastic, extruded parts, and accessory components, from initial concepts through prototyping and into high volume production.  Works closely with internal and / or external partners to generate all necessary documentation and test plans to ensure that products meet specification.  Monitors feedback from customers to identify and correct production quality problems.  Interacts directly with Asian manufacturing facilities.  Travel to Asia will be required. Ensure product features achieve cost, schedule, reliability, and regulatory / safety goals.

How You’ll Make An Impact

Every role at Trove Brands is critical to our successful functioning as a whole. Your specific responsibilities as a part of our team will include :

• Manage tooling for all products after initial product release.
• Work with forecasting and purchasing teams to develop and approve capacity tooling as required.
• Monitor product quality metrics, identify and implement product improvements across the supply chain.
• Engage with factories to resolve issues identified in incoming quality inspections.
• Provide regular feedback to the rest of the product team to make sure that product learnings are incorporated into new products under development.
• Participates in mechanical engineering evaluation and test to validate the robustness and proper performance of new products.
• Utilizes best-in-class tools to develop innovative mechanical solutions to highly complex problems.
• Protect company intellectual property through design and patent application processes.

Qualifications

What You’ll Bring to the Team

We seek employees who are adept at contributing their personal expertise to a collaborative work environment. For this role, we’re looking for someone with the following skills and experience :

Additional Information

Our culture is passionate, entrepreneurial, and energetic. We value innovation through collaboration. And while we work smart and hard, we also connect and celebrate with equal gusto. We host team-building activities, athletic events, and seasonal celebrations to foster community and reward accomplishments. Bottom line? You’ll love it here.

Among the many benefits our team members enjoy are :

Trove Brands is an equal opportunity employer.

Phone calls regarding this position are not accepted.