POSITION PURPOSE
The Sr. Product Engineer is a business partner to the merchandising team managing and supporting private brands engineering projects. The engineer will partner with internal teams to complete benchmarking, product requirement development, and resolution of product performance concerns for assigned product categories. The engineer will utilize Bill of Materials as well as internal tools and data to understand raw material, manufacturing, labor, logistics, business and total cost involved in manufacturing and shipping product. Having good business acumen and financial knowledge of key terms will aid the engineer in relating the information to the Merchant community in a constructive and collaborative manner. The engineer works in a team environment as an individual contributor.

MAJOR TASKS, RESPONSIBILITES AND KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• 60%-Engineering project management including benchmarking, product onboarding, requirements development, and test protocol development. 
• 20%-Problem solving with industry experts, summarizing engineering evaluations, providing recommendations and presenting to Stakeholders.
• 10%-Oversight and resolution of product performance concerns. 
• 10%-Achieve annual business objectives to include process improvement, personal development and improving KPI’s.NATURE AND SCOPE
  Reports to Sr. Manager of Product Engineering
  
  ENVIRONMENTAL JOB REQUIREMENTS
  Environment:
  Located in a comfortable indoor area. 3 days a week in office setting, 2 days a week virtual working from home.
  
  Travel:
  Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.