About our client:

Our employer is the leading manufacturer of Premium Metal Payment Cards and also offers best-in-class Authentication and Digital Asset solutions. The Company's offerings combine elegance, simplicity, and security to deliver exceptional experiences and peace of mind, enabling trust for millions of people around the globe.

Position Overview:

This position is responsible for developing new products, product components, and production processes to support new product manufacturing. This engineer will be responsible for documenting new processes, creating technical drawings, and training individuals on newly developed processes.

This is an excellent opportunity for an engineer to be technically creative and innovate in a highly desired consumer product segment.

The R&D Engineer will work onsite 5 days a week out of our office in Somerset, NJ.

Key Responsibilities:

Research and Development:

• Create and execute product enhancement, next generation, and new product development plans as assigned
• Be an independent thinker and ideate new products
• Work with management on new product goals
• Create new product prototypes
• Design tests and analyze test results to create viable products out of a design idea
• Document the new product development for seamless handover to production
• Develop new processes and manufacturing techniques to support new products
• Industrialize prototype process in preparation for manufacturing
• Help prepare invention disclosures for patent filing
• Identify and incorporate Client materials

Process Improvement

• Identify innovative and improved methods for existing product lines
• Industrialize new processing techniques
• Qualify new materials or components for existing products

Other Important Responsibilities:

• Consistently demonstrate the ability to prioritize tasks to ensure most critical processes impacting business results are being addressed
• Thorough documentation of all product development activities as well as existing and new process development, inclusive of progressive results, specific equipment parameters and work instructions where appropriate
• As part of the EMS - Environment Management System, will meet compliance obligations and accountability by contributing but not limited to the company's recycling guidelines, proper waste and other environmental performance practices
• Will be required to perform other job functions, as assigned

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of experience
• BS or BEng Required, MS preferred. (Materials or Chemical Engineering is a plus)
• Applied adhesive and polymer experience
• Developed specifications and formulating adhesives
• Designed tests for validating the chemical formulations at development phase and for incoming quality inspections during production.
• Prior new product development experience
• Worked with vendors to produce the materials in volume.
• Ability to relate to other employees and understand their needs
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written
• Strong attention to detail and ability to self-check own work
• Excellent time management skills
• Task oriented excellent organizational skills, ability to prioritize workload
• Enthusiastic attitude, cooperative team player, adaptable to new or changing circumstances, professional demeanor, sensitive to client needs, self-motivated, creative and innovative
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• An aptitude for learning payment card business and adjacent fields.

Preferred Skills and Qualifications:

• Involvement with invention disclosure or patent preparation
• 3D Printing Experience
• Coding/Programming Experience - Java, Flash, Android