Product Engineer, Analytical Instrumentation and NPD

A Snapshot of What You'll Do: The Product Engineer owns the manufacturing system for Anton Paar QuantaTec products, ensuring they are built consistently, efficiently, and without reliance on individual knowledge. This role defines, maintains, and improves how products are assembled, tested, and supported in production. The Product Engineer is involved throughout the product lifecycle, from development through production, ensuring products are designed for manufacturability and successfully transitioned into stable, repeatable processes. By developing deep product understanding, the Product Engineer translates design intent into clear standard work, drives root cause resolution of issues, and continuously improves production performance, quality, and throughput. The role bridges development and production, enabling a manufacturing system that operates reliably and independently of constant engineering support.   The Impact You’ll Make  The Product Engineer takes ownership of manufacturing processes, proactively identifying and addressing gaps to improve system performance while collaborating across teams to implement effective solutions. Job duties include: Own and define the manufacturing system for assigned products, ensuring they are built consistently, efficiently, and without reliance on individual knowledge  Develop and maintain assembly processes, test methods, and standard work that are clear, repeatable, and scalable  Create, standardize and continuously improve visual Work Instructions that enable operators to execute without additional guidance  Develop deep understanding of product functionality, critical features, and failure modes to inform manufacturing processes  Translate design intent into manufacturable processes and support development teams with Design for Manufacturing (DFM) feedback  Ensure all production issues are identified, documented, and owned through a structured issue management process  Lead root cause analysis and implement corrective actions to eliminate repeat issues  Update processes and Work Instructions based on issues, improvements, and production feedback  Own and drive continuous improvement opportunities focused on yield, cycle time, quality, and production flow to reduce waste, rework, and inefficiencies in the manufacturing process Apply structured problem-solving methods (e.g., 5 Why, Eight Disciplines or 8D, Lean principles) to achieve measurable improvements  Engage with production to observe processes, validate changes, and identify gaps in clarity, tooling, or execution  Support the transition of new products from development into stable, repeatable production processes  Ensure manufacturing readiness through defined processes, documentation, and risk identification  Communicate process changes, improvements, and risks clearly across cross-functional teams May be required to travel to other Anton Paar facilities domestically or internationally (