Sr. New Product Development Engineer- Remote

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, collaborating with engineering, manufacturing, commercial, customer, and external partner groups. The role also provides technical leadership, supports commercialization, and evaluates product risks and opportunities.

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

Requirements:

• 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. This role is not open to individuals who live in other states or countries