Kohler
Kohler Development Program - Accelerated Engineering
KOHLER, WI, US · Full-time
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About the role
- Participants join as full-time associates, gaining broad exposure across the organization while being supported through intentional development, mentorship, and a strong cohort experience.
- Program Overview Are you ready to accelerate your career in engineering?
- Join our dynamic Accelerated Engineering Development Program and embark on a transformative journey toward becoming a future engineering leader.
Responsibilities
- Create, refine, and implement new product solutions by: Collaborating with Product Marketing, Industrial Design, Program Management, and other cross-functional partners to define product specifications grounded in consumer research, market data, and business needs.
- Analyzing competitive products, warranty insights, sales feedback, and technical data to benchmark performance and inform new design approaches.
- Developing and refining product concepts using 3D modeling software, engineering analysis tools, FEA, CFD, and design critique processes.
- Leveraging advanced prototyping and test lab capabilities to build, evaluate, and validate physical prototypes through hands-on experimentation.
- Partnering with internal manufacturing teams and external suppliers to optimize design performance, cost, quality, timing, reliability, and manufacturing efficiency.
- Developing verification plans, supporting regulatory compliance, and providing hands-on engineering support during pre-production builds and manufacturing ramp-up.
- Program Structure Experiences Kohler's Leadership Development Programs are designed as two-year, full-time rotational experiences that provide broad exposure to the business while accelerating leadership readiness.
- Collaborating with Product Marketing, Industrial Design, Program Management, and other cross-functional partners to define product specifications grounded in consumer research, market data, and business needs.
Company info
- Accelerate the growth of our engineers through focused training, mentorship, and hands-on experience in diverse product categories, to drive leading edge innovation at Kohler.
- Our vision is to build a world class team of engineers equipped with the skills and network to develop meaningful products and innovations that will shape the future of Kohler.
- We are looking for early-career engineers who bring curiosity, creativity, and a strong desire to solve meaningful business and product challenges.
- Successful participants will be innovative thinkers who can translate ideas into cost-effective, functional solutions that reflect Kohler's brand values, while collaborating effectively across marketing, program management, industrial design, manufacturing operations, and other cross-functional partners.
- This program is designed for individuals who are passionate about innovation, eager to identify opportunities for transformative product solutions, and able to contribute within a diverse, global engineering organization by leveraging both their technical foundation and the collective expertise of the broader team.
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