BURN Product Design Engineer Job

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BURN is the world’s largest vertically integrated modern cookstove company, providing world-class R&D, manufacturing, and carbon offset projects from our HQ in Kenya and across 10 countries in Africa.

BURN is working to create a world where cooking positively impacts all life on Earth, by producing the world’s most efficient biomass, liquid fuel, and electric cookstoves.

Since 2013, BURN has sold over 3.6 million stoves in Africa. These stoves have helped 20+ million beneficiaries save over $590 million in fuel expenditures and 8.1 million tons of wood while reducing indoor air pollution by 65%. Our team of 2500+ people – 51% of whom are women – is on track to produce and sell over 150,000 stoves per month in 2022 at our solar-powered facility in Kenya.

Title:  Product Design Engineer

We are pleased to announce the following vacancy in the Electric Department within the Electric Team. In keeping with our growing business needs, we are looking for a person who meets the criteria indicated below.

Position Summary 

Reporting to the Head of Product Design, the product designer will be responsible for the development of a new revolutionary electric cooking product for Africa. The ideal candidate will use strong technical engineering skills to create well-supported and reasoned designs. Working closely with the electrical engineering and software engineering teams they will own the final integrated design solution.

Key Responsibilities 

• Support the creation and presentation of visual concepts for new and innovative electric cooking products using a variety of visual communication methods such as sketches, digital illustrations, CAD, CAD renderings, and rapid prototypes.  
• Design and build proof of concept products to support the development process. 
• Manage product EVT, DVT, PVT and mass production with suppliers.  
• Design and develop complex assemblies that utilize plastic injection moulding, metal forming, co-moulding, and electronic component integration.  
• Support design and material choices with rigorous analysis and research.  
• Create detailed material specifications. 
• Create and manage cookware B.O.M with Burn’s production team.  
• Design and manage testing plans to answer design questions.  
• Design and create low to high-fidelity prototypes. 
• Create 2D technical drawings for communication with vendors. 
• Follow human-centred design practices when developing designs.  
• Research and develop manufacturing processes as needed to achieve product goals.  
• Creating and maintaining requirement documents, reports, cost studies, part, and process specification documentation.  
• Communicating with the respective stakeholders such as hardware and software about the project and their task herein.   
• Testing concepts and prototypes in the lab and field  
• Meet with suppliers inside and outside of KE. 

Key Qualifications  

• BFA or BA in Design Engineering, Industrial Design, or Product Design.
• 5 years’ demonstrated consumer product experience 
• Proficient in SolidWorks and or Similar CAD tools.  
• Demonstrated experience with EVT, DVT, and PVT phases.  
• Experience managing consumer product production outside of Kenya.   
• Proficient in core MS Office products.  
• Hand prototyping and model-making skills such as basic metal working, sheet metal, wood, foam, 3D print finishing, and painting.  
• Solid sketching and rapid visual communication skills.  
• Experience with Keyshot, and Adobe CC (Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign). 

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