Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Weyerhaeuser manufactures sustainable wood products and building solutions. The Senior New Product Development Engineer leads the evaluation, development, validation, and commercialization of new wood-based products and applications, working across technical, commercial, manufacturing, customer, and external partner groups. The role assesses feasibility and risk, guides complex technical work, and recommends whether development initiatives should advance, scale, modify, or discontinue.
Responsibilities
- Lead technical assessment of market problems, customer needs, and new product or application opportunities
- Translate customer, field, builder, specifier, installer, and channel insights into technical requirements, design criteria, performance expectations, and development priorities
- Evaluate application fit, technical feasibility, manufacturability, market readiness, assumptions, constraints, and implementation risks
- Recommend whether concepts should advance to prototyping, validation, field testing, commercialization, further investigation, or discontinuation
- Monitor building practices, codes, standards, sustainability expectations, and industry trends that may create product opportunities or risks
- Provide senior engineering leadership from problem definition and concept evaluation through testing, launch readiness, and post-launch improvement
- Develop specifications, design inputs, analyses, prototypes, test methods, measurable acceptance criteria, and technical documentation
- Lead multidisciplinary technical workstreams and coordinate testing with internal teams, laboratories, universities, suppliers, and engineering partners
- Analyze data, investigate performance gaps, identify root causes, and recommend changes to product design, materials, processes, or applications
- Ensure decisions are supported by accurate, appropriately validated evidence and integrate safety, quality, code, compliance, sustainability, and confidentiality requirements throughout development
- Partner with Sales, Marketing, Product Management, Manufacturing, Finance, Supply Chain, Field Engineering, and customer-facing teams to align technical decisions with customer value and business objectives
- Support commercialization through performance data, application guidance, risk assessments, technical documentation, training, customer education, and launch support
- Communicate technical status, assumptions, unresolved questions, alternatives, risks, and recommendations to technical and business audiences
- Build productive relationships with customers, specifiers, universities, research institutions, engineering firms, laboratories, and industry organizations
- Review technical work, coach less-experienced professionals, influence decisions without formal authority, and escalate significant safety, performance, compliance, financial, environmental, or reputational risks
Skills
- Must possess a strong passion, a nearly dogged approach toward researching technical issues in the pursuit of finding solutions for our direct or indirect customers
- A positive attitude towards the art of the possible
- Experience across multiple product-development stages, including opportunity assessment, requirements, design analysis, prototyping, testing, validation, field evaluation, commercialization, or post-launch improvement
- Knowledge of manufacturability, customer applications, building practices, codes, standards, and product-performance requirements
- Demonstrated success independently leading complex engineering projects or technical workstreams, coordinating contributors, and meeting commitments
- Commitment to safety, integrity, inclusion, sustainability, quality, and responsible use of company-approved digital and AI tools
- Travel may be required for field research, customer and specifier meetings, testing, external collaboration, and industry activities
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution in Civil, Structural, Mechanical, Materials, Manufacturing, or related Engineering; Wood Science, Forest Products; or another related technical discipline
- Professional Engineer license required
- Typically, seven to ten years of progressively responsible engineering experience in product development, product engineering, applied research, building products, construction systems, manufacturing, materials, or a related technical field
- This role is a fully remote, work-from-home position, provided you are currently based in, or planning to move to, one of the following states: MS, AL, AR, OK, LA, NC, OR, WA, WV, MI, or MT
Benefits
- Annual merit-increase program
- Annual Incentive Program, which offers a cash bonus targeting 20% of base pay; potential plan funding may range from zero to two times that target
- Coverage under a comprehensive employee benefits plan for employees and their dependents, including medical, dental, vision, short- and long-term disability, and life insurance
- Pre-tax Health Savings Account option with a company contribution
- Voluntary Long-Term Care and Employee Assistance Programs
- Support for personal volunteerism
- Diversity networks
- Mentoring
- Training and development opportunities
- Company 401k plan with a paid company match and an annual contribution equal to 5% of base salary
- Eligible employees scheduled to work 25 hours or more per week receive 3 weeks of paid vacation during their first year of employment
- After six months of employment, eligible employees begin to accrue vacation for future use
- Eleven paid holidays per year, providing a total of 88 holiday hours
- Paid parental leave for all full-time employees
- Fully remote, work-from-home position for individuals based in, or planning to move to, MS, AL, AR, OK, LA, NC, OR, WA, WV, MI, or MT
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