We need to hire someone to help us engineer parts but I don’t know what job title to use that would help attract potential candidates. We’d like someone with a technical background that has (or could achieve) a fundamental understanding of BOOs and BOMs and the manufacturing process. They’d also need to work with our sales team to provide custom quote requests in more of a sales engineering role. Is there a set of commonly used job titles for the product/part engineering role? Have other companies found that people with engineering backgrounds and degrees are better suited for these roles or is an engineering degree overkill in most cases?
Currently my VP of Products and my project engineer work with me to engineer parts. We have a product specialist that doesn’t quite have the horsepower to do more than duplicate and make small modifications to existing engineered parts.