Product Development Engineer

Engineer products built for mission-critical applications

Harbour Industries is seeking a Product Development Engineer to develop high-performance cable products for aerospace and other mission-critical applications.

In this role, you will translate customer requirements and industry standards into cable designs, manufacturing instructions, testing requirements, and production-ready solutions. You will work across engineering, manufacturing, quality, sales, and customer teams while supporting products from initial design through their transition into production.

Headquartered in Shelburne, Vermont, Harbour Industries has engineered and manufactured high-temperature, high-performance cable products since 1965. Harbour is part of Marmon Holdings, Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway company.

What you’ll do

• Develop aerospace cable designs based on customer requirements and applicable industry standards.
• Build collaborative relationships with key customer engineers to support new product development.
• Review customer drawings and determine whether the requested performance characteristics are achievable.
• Interpret military and commercial standards and translate them into product-design and testing requirements. Applicable standards may include MIL-DTL, SAE AS22759, NEMA, UL, CSA, and ASTM.
• Create customer-facing sales drawings using DraftSight or AutoCAD and define Harbour’s product requirements.
• Prepare manufacturing routers that identify key parameters throughout the production process.
• Review routers for new product builds and maintain documentation for existing products.
• Prepare and implement product-development plans when required.
• Provide technical support for manufacturing processes, including extrusion, braiding, shielding, and process-improvement initiatives.
• Review cost estimates prepared by Design Specialists and incorporate cost considerations into product designs.
• Evaluate new raw materials, manufacturing methods, and equipment.
• Create purchasing specifications as needed.
• Evaluate and verify test data and recommend opportunities for improvement.
• Provide technical product support to account managers, quality control, customers, and manufacturing teams.
• Maintain document control in accordance with AS9100 requirements.
• Complete special projects and other assigned responsibilities.

Minimum qualifications

• Technical degree or equivalent industry experience.
• Ability to manage multiple customer projects simultaneously.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail.

Preferred qualifications

• Working knowledge of RF cable design, including impedance matching, attenuation, insertion loss, return loss, and shielding effectiveness.
• Experience designing RF coaxial, aerospace, or specialty cable products.
• Working knowledge of Design of Experiments, statistical analysis, and electrical calculations.