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With 25 locations across the U.S. and corporate headquarters in Hickory, NC and Huntersville, NC, we specialize in manufacturing components for furniture, bedding, transportation, packaging, automotive, and healthcare industries. Our expertise also includes designing and building automated production machinery. HSM products from sofa springs to swimming pool noodles and bus seats, touch everyday life in countless ways.\nAt HSM, our success is built on our people. We foster a culture of teamwork, innovation, and shared success. If you’re looking for a meaningful place to grow and make an impact, we want to hear from you!\nWhat You’ll Do\nIdentify product opportunities: Research customer and end-user needs, benchmark competing products, and evaluate new markets and applications for TSM’s manufacturing capabilities.\n\nShape product strategy: Develop product briefs and business cases outlining requirements, target costs, pricing assumptions, expected demand, and investment needs. Help maintain product roadmaps and prioritize development opportunities.\n\nDesign and develop products: Create components, subassemblies, and finished products using appropriate materials and manufacturing processes. Maintain 3D CAD models, engineering drawings, bills of material, specifications, and controlled design records.\n\nExplore and test concepts: Plan feasibility studies, proof-of-concept builds, and experiments to resolve technical uncertainties and evaluate mechanical features, material interactions, and product performance.\n\nValidate designs: Coordinate prototypes, laboratory testing, first article inspections, and design verification. Partner with Quality and regulatory resources to incorporate applicable safety, performance, customer, and industry requirements.\n\nSupport production launches: Coordinate development milestones from approved concept through tooling, pilot production, launch, and stabilization. Work with Manufacturing and Process Engineering to confirm readiness and resolve design-related issues.\n\nImprove existing products: Review sales, margins, customer feedback, warranty, scrap, and rework data to recommend product improvements and cost reductions that preserve safety, quality, and performance.\n\nCollaborate across teams: Serve as the engineering contact for assigned products, communicate requirements and risks, and use structured root cause analysis to resolve concerns with customers, suppliers, and internal partners.\n\nWhat You’ll Bring\nBachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Product Design, Materials, Manufacturing, or Industrial Engineering, or a closely related engineering discipline.\nAt least five years of experience in product engineering, product development, design engineering, or closely related manufacturing engineering.\nExperience taking manufactured products from concept through launch, including involvement in market research, product planning, or commercialization.\nAbility to translate customer needs, competitive research, and market trends into product recommendations.\nKnowledge of product roadmaps, business cases, target costing, margins, and commercialization.\nProficiency with 3D CAD software such as SolidWorks, Creo, CATIA, or Autodesk Inventor, along with engineering drawings and geometric dimensioning and tolerancing.\nWorking knowledge of foam, metal, vinyl, textiles, plastics, adhesives, fastening applications, and associated manufacturing processes.\nExperience developing specifications, bills of material, prototypes, validation plans, and controlled engineering documentation.\nWorking knowledge of ISO 9001 and formal product design and development controls.\nExperience using structured root cause analysis methods such as 8D, Five Why, Fishbone, or A3.\nExperience with ERP, PLM, document-control systems, and Microsoft Office applications.\nStrong analytical, project management, and communication skills, with the ability to explain technical tradeoffs and manage priorities across facilities and functions.\nPreferred Experience\nSeven or more years of relevant engineering experience.\nProduct development experience with medical devices, medical furnishings, hospitality furnishings, sleeper mechanisms, or collegiate furnishings. Related experience with commercial or institutional furniture, seating, bedding, mechanisms, or other durable products is also valuable.\nExperience developing products that combine multiple materials or manufacturing processes.\nExperience with articulating, folding, reclining, or sleeper mechanisms.\nFamiliarity with applicable product safety and performance requirements, including structural integrity, stability, load capacity, durability, cleanability, and flammability.\nExperience with quality systems, risk management, traceability, and validation practices applicable to medical devices and furnishings.\nExperience with APQP, PPAP, DFMEA, PFMEA, Control Plans, MSA, SPC, and customer-specific requirements, where applicable.\nExperience with JD Edwards.\nTravel\nThis position requires up to 25% travel for customer and supplier visits, market research, industry events, testing, product launches, and support across TSM facilities.\nIf you enjoy combining hands-on product development with customer and market insight, we encourage you to apply.\nWhy Join Us?\nHealth & Wellness: Affordable medical, dental, and vision insurance plans, including an innovative global healthcare option for qualified participants.\n\nRetire: 401(k) with company match, fully vested from day one.\n\nPaid Time Off: Competitive PTO: 3 weeks of PTO + company paid holidays.\n\nOn-Site Medical Clinics: Free for you and covered dependents.\n\nTeladoc: 24/7 access with no copay.\n\nProfessional Development: Tuition reimbursement, professional development assistance and career growth opportunities.\n\nDiscounts: Enjoy discounts with HSM partners, including Dollywood Parks & Resort, Verizon Wireless, and more.\n\nEEOC\nAt HSM, we believe that our diversity creates a productive workplace. 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