Product Development Engineer - Power Tools

Summary

Lidl & Kaufland are hiring Product Development Engineer to join our product development power tools team. The successful candidate will be responsible for below tasks,

• Contribute to developing new products and improving existing ones by giving technical support and ideas.

• Support the Product Development & Merchandising on all product and quality requirements of related products.

What you'll do

• Understand technical requirements and specifications to be applied into product development

• Collaborate with merchandising and sourcing teams and factories, regarding technical & engineering aspects of product development

• Ideate product improvements and present them to relevant stakeholders

• Create test failure analysis and communicate recommendations to suppliers

• Clarify the testing issues with external laboratory; Handle laboratory test quotation issues and discuss with the superior for confirmation

• Provide support to ad hoc assignment when necessary

• Bring in your own ideas and passion into the products (range)

What you'll need

• Higher Diploma or above 

• Relevant experience of technical product development experience in Power Tools

• Strong technical expertise in Power Tools

• Mechanical (internal) structure knowledge needed 

• Good sense of market trends and interest in Power Tools

• Knowledge for and familiar with the power tools market trends 

• Familiar with MS Office (especially PowerPoint and Excel). Beneficial if familiar with Solidworks (or similar CAD software), Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop

• Proficient in both spoken and written English and Mandarin, additional language skills in German and Cantonese are beneficial

• Proactive, self motivated and able to work independently 

• Able to work together with cross functional teams 

• Experience with European companies/markets/designs 

• Beneficial if with factory experience/having experience dealing with suppliers in Power Tools, familiar with manufacturing process in plastic/metal and assembly and basic knowledge of tooling will be a plus.

What you'll receive

We are dedicated to fostering a family-friendly culture and work environment and we are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all candidates with the required skills and experience. We enable fair pay within the company by creating non-discriminatory salary systems.

 
Market Leading Remuneration Package:

• Double pay and discretionary bonus

• Choice of MPF provider

• Life Insurance

• Medical Insurance

Supportive Environment:

• Rental re-imbursement scheme

• Out-Of-Office leave for important appointments

• In-house training courses

• Training sponsorship scheme

• Health Check

• Vision Check

Work-Life Balance:

• 5 day week

• Competitive Annual Leave

• Charity, Community and Sporting Events