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Our company was founded in 1984 with a single fiber optic cable and today, we manufacture thousands of products, generate an excess of $4B in revenue, and employ approximately 12,000 associates worldwide. At AFL, we recognize that our employees are our greatest asset. We hire and train each individual, investing in them to ensure success in their careers. With a commitment to professional development and growth, let us connect you to your next career opportunity.\nWhat We Offer:\nFlexible time off policy\nHybrid work schedule\n401K Company match (up to 4% - dollar for dollar)\nProfessional development, training, and tuition reimbursement programs\nExcellent medical, dental, vision, and life insurance policy options\nOpportunities for career advancement with an industry leading company!\nSummary\nThe Product Engineer is part of a high-performing team that designs and develops energy accessories and advanced manufacturing technologies. This engineer is responsible for accessory design control and system integration, maintaining engineering administrative processes, ensuring products meet customer requirements, and aligning product data with current manufacturing capabilities. Key responsibilities include: integration of design controls and data analysis using SQL, Python, and reporting tools to ensure configuration data accuracy, automation of repetitive engineering processes and optimization of systems to ensure efficiency, analysis of product, quality, and manufacturing data to produce clear recommendations for changes, product specification management, engineering oversight of systems and processes to ensure timely item builds, drawing revisions, and customer responses, and timely execution of engineering changes. The role is critical to maintaining customers’ expectations and putting the customer first. The role requires someone who is flexible, able to work with numerous departments, is detail oriented, and driven to mistake free work. The position is within the Product Engineering department and reports to the Product Engineering Manager.\nResponsibilities\nDesign and set up new item configurations in current engineering systems, and develop tools and automation (e.g., rules-based configurators, Excel or Python calculators, SQL scripts, AI-assisted tools) that make setup faster and more accurate.\nManage generation and storage of product data across internal systems and analyze data integrity to ensure agreement across all sources.\nAnalyze item, bill of material, and manufacturing data from Oracle/ERP and engineering systems, and build dashboards and reports (e.g., Power BI) that guide configuration, standardization, and cost decisions.\nDevelop and maintain product drawings, specifications, and data sheets, and translate customer drawings and specifications to AFL products and processes.\nInterpret technical industry standards, regulatory compliance documentation, and Customer Drawings/Specifications and apply to AFL products, data management, and processes.\nAutomate manual data processes, optimize user queries, and facilitate data research and understanding while partnering with analysts and business specialists\nSupport new item sourcing requests and evaluate how material and test specification changes affect bills of material.\nAddress internal and external nonconformance of parts and materials, using basic statistical methods (Pareto, trend analysis, capability studies, DOE) to find root causes and support corrective action.\nPartner with Applications, Manufacturing, Process, and Development Engineering to streamline item development and setup.\nServe as a subject matter expert (SME) on assigned energy accessory product types (Substation, Transmission, Distribution, Fiber Optic Hardware, Motion Control) and represent AFL at related standards and specifications meetings.\nSupport execution of engineering changes.\nOther assignments as identified.\nMust successfully complete pre-employment assessments, background & reference checks.\nAdhere to and promote the environmental, health, and safety policies of AFL.\nPersonal Qualities\nSelf-starter with integrity and confidence who delivers results with limited supervision, even in challenging environments.\nTeam player and effective written and verbal communicator with strong interpersonal and influencing skills, comfortable in a cross-functional, multicultural environment.\nOrganized, detail-oriented professional who manages time well and focuses on accuracy and repeatability.\nAnalytical, curious problem solver who uses data to improve systems and supports engineering decisions and readily learns new software tools.\nQualifications\nBachelor's degree in engineering or a related technical discipline; 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