Product Engineer na MasterBrand Cabinets LLC

For nearly 70 years, MasterBrand has been shaping the places where people come together, enriching lives and creating meaningful memories for our customers. That, combined with our stylish products, expansive dealer and retail network, and dedicated associates, has helped make us the number one North American residential cabinet business. Our unique culture of continuous improvement is based on trusting the tools, empowering the team and moving forward, and is kept alive by our more than 14,000 associates across 20 plus manufacturing facility and offices. Visit www.masterbrand.com to learn more and join us in building great experiences together!

This position will coordinate, and support, product development changes as required within the Waterloo, IA cabinet line portfolio.  This position will be instrumental in supporting business requirements for new product development, product changes and continuous improvement.  The position will provide frequent interaction with multiple MasterBrand departments including Product, Digital Technology, Operations and Materials.  This position will also support the bill of materials system specialists in developing flexible capacity of product configuration, product and system integration projects, and support continuous improvement of MasterBrand business systems. This position is a non-supervisory role with the ability to lead a cross-functional team in projects. 

Responsibilities:

• Develop project plans for new products, product changes and continuous improvement projects.
• Collaboration with Product Development, Customer Service and Operations.
• Ability to work with multiple cabinet brand’s business systems & product structures by engaging in cross-training to create flexible capacity / team strength.
• Understand shop floor paperwork, drawings and material lists.
• Assist the product team in determining manufacturing processes, product implementation and training.
• Attend weekly product team meetings and complete actions as assigned.
• Support the evaluation of product-related production problems and provide technical support on materials and commodities with Sourcing, Quality, Finance, Marketing, and other departments as required.
• Help to establish organizational culture of continuous improvement, utilizing daily management, standard work, and A3 Thinking.
• Perform other tasks as assigned at management’s discretion.
• Ability for occasional travel as business needs require.

• Associate's degree in Manufacturing or a technical field is minimally required.
• Bachelor's degree in Manufacturing, Engineering, or a technical field is highly preferred.
• 1+ years in a manufacturing environment.
• 1+ years of project management.
• Proficiency with AutoCad is required.
• Working knowledge of AutoCAD Inventor and i-logic parametric modeling is a plus. 
• Working knowledge of product Bill of Materials and production systems.
• Experience with Microsoft applications including Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• Exceptional attention to detail, organizational skills and communication skills.
• Self-starting, self-directing with limited supervision and ability to foster teamwork.

Equal Employment Opportunity

MasterBrand Cabinets LLC is an equal opportunity employer. MasterBrand Cabinets LLC’s policy is not to discriminate against any applicant or employee based on race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, disability/handicap status, marital status, military status, sexual orientation, genetic history or information, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local laws. MasterBrand Cabinets LLC also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. It is also MasterBrand Cabinets LLC’s policy to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws respecting consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions.

Reasonable Accommodations

MasterBrand Cabinets LLC is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you have a disability and wish to discuss potential accommodations related to applying for employment, please contact us at [email protected].