Product Innovation Engineer

4 weeks ago


Wood Dale, Illinois, United States OPTO Inc Defunct Full time
Job Summary

The New Product Development Engineer is responsible for researching, designing, and engineering new products to add to OPTO's collections of standard products.

From market research to trend analysis, this position formulates what new designs our industry is looking for that OPTO can manufacture and then designs the fixtures from concepts through prototyping.

To be successful in this position, you need to be innovative, creative, and analytical.

Key Responsibilities
  • Create design concepts to determine the most viable designs
  • Present product ideas to relevant team members for brainstorming
  • Engineer concepts through prototyping and final designs
  • Research and stay up to date on industry and customer trends to determine what unique solutions customers require
  • Perform research on product technologies to implement into design concepts
Requirements
  • 5+ years of expertise in retail store fixture design or equivalent
  • Extensive knowledge of designing with a wide range of materials such as wood, metal, acrylics, aluminum, glass, etc.
  • Working knowledge and understanding of lighting, extrusion design, castings, and modular integration
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Industrial Design
  • Proficient with 3D modeling software, preferably Autodesk Inventor
  • Computer skills including working knowledge of Excel, Word, & Powerpoint
  • Ability to problem-solve quickly and effectively
  • Ability to produce under tight timelines
Working at OPTO

OPTO is a fast-paced, constantly-growing retail store fixture manufacturing company selling to the retail industry. We believe in relentless communication, both internally and to our customers, in an effort to constantly improve ourselves.

We are obsessively focused on helping our clients be successful, which in turn makes us successful.

OPTO employs joined-up, responsive and adaptive people who work hard as a tight team.


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