Project Engineer II - PACKOUT
Posted Sep 10, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Tell me about a plastic part you designed for injection molding. What did you learn once it went to tooling?
What they are checking: Whether they have real molded-part experience with draft, ribs and wall thickness, and learned from what the toolmaker pushed back on.
Tell me about working with marketing and industrial design to define a product before engineering started.
What they are checking: Whether they engage early and shape requirements with other functions instead of waiting for a finished spec.
First parts from a supplier do not match your design. How do you handle it?
What they are checking: Whether they can hold a supplier to clear requirements while working the problem together instead of just escalating.
What would you do
Users report a latch breaking after a few months. How do you investigate?
What they are checking: Whether they gather returned parts and use data to find the true failure mode before proposing a fix.
How do you decide which features make it into a new storage product and which get cut for cost?
What they are checking: Whether they weigh features by what users actually value rather than by what is easiest or most impressive to engineer.
How would you use jobsite visits to decide what PACKOUT should build next?
What they are checking: Whether they know how to watch users work and turn their pain points into product ideas worth pursuing.
About the work
How would you design a new PACKOUT piece to survive a truck bed, a jobsite and a full load of tools?
What they are checking: Whether they think about impact, weather, stacking loads and heavy handling the way users will really treat storage.
Every new PACKOUT piece has to work with the pieces already out there. How does that change your design work?
What they are checking: Whether they respect locked interfaces across a product family, where one small change can break compatibility for millions of users.
How would you test a storage product for drops, water and weight before launch?
What they are checking: Whether their validation plan reflects how the product is actually abused instead of only passing a lab checklist.
How do you plan a project schedule around long tooling lead times and overseas suppliers?
What they are checking: Whether they plan for long lead items early, since tooling delays are the usual reason storage launches slip.
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