Located in Denver, Colorado and founded in 1988, American Lighting strives continually to design and manufacture innovative products which are also aesthetically appealing, performance driven and user friendly. We leverage the services of Energy Star, Design Lights Consortium, BILD, CALiPER and Lighting Facts to aid in our mission to deliver and promote high quality products and their ability to save energy and make a positive impact on people and their environments.
Product Development / Project Manager
Requirements:
- Bachelors degree in Engineering preferred
- 3-5 years experience
Qualifications:
- Experience with LED lighting technology
- Ability to understand lighting systems as a whole and in part to determine functionality based on installation, performance and sales requirements
- High attention to detail
- Excellent organizational and project management skills
- Good communication skills and the ability work with multiple departments and disciplines
- Proficient understanding of the product development lifecycle
- Experience with manufacturing cultures in Asian countries a plus
- Experience with sheet metal bending, plastic injection and/or aluminum die-cast design preferred
- Ability to work independently, and balance and manage multiple priorities
- Experience with 3D modeling software such as SolidWorks preferred
- Experience with UL, ETL, DLC, Energy Star and/or RoHs a plus
- Proficiency with office communications tools such as Word, Excel and Outlook required
Responsibilities:
- Develop product guidelines that include details and verbiage to fully describe our product expectations to our manufacturing partners
- Share product guidelines and inspection plans with manufacturing partners and inspection teams; review inspection reports confirming adherence to guidelines for product consistency, performance and manufacturing quality
- Complete review of pre-production samples prior to mass production
- Review current lighting products available in the market to determine new opportunities, including competitive analysis for major product categories
- Assist our sourcing partners with performance and installation requirements in order to gather viable new product samples that meet our new product development needs
- Testing, review and presentation of product samples for sales and marketing feedback
- Critique of new product samples for possible design improvements and/or modifications
- Gather and record new product data and cost information for import to active product status
- Ongoing communication with manufacturing partners and ongoing project management
- Aid in new vendor evaluation and inspection procedures when needed
Additional Information:
- Travel to Asia is required 2-3 times a year
- Ability to speak Mandarin is a plus
For consideration contact Bryant Hadden at [email protected]
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