Product Development Engineer II

The Opportunity: This position is a focused, technical engineering role responsible for supporting and helping to drive technical product innovation and the development of creative new product concepts into manufacturable solutions. This position also provides project support to more senior engineers acting as mentors to help gain experience.  This position serves as focal point for driving technical engineering solutions on new product concepts to ensure financial targets, schedule, and adherence to specified safety and quality standards.   The position also drives Brand level value engineering and advanced product quality planning.   The job role serves as a technical engineering liaison with Operations and collaborates with the cross functional New Product Development Team to support efficient flow of new product concepts through the new product development lifecycles.  This job also supports team level corrective action programs administered by CPI.What Your Impact Will Be:  Provides feedback to design & PMs during initial concept stages to determine feasibility of planned toy.Assists with the development of new mechanisms to achieve toy functionality goals.  Assists with the creation of breadboard models.Creation of engineering BOM.Point of contact with dev houses, tooling and plants, providing design guidance (facilitated as needed by Program Execution teams).Assists in translating design vision for toy into technical specs that can be passed on to development houses, tooling, plants.Assists in definition of product function through Functional Spec.Performs routine engineering activities relative to various processes in product development.