Mechanical Designer

Mechanical Designer

The mechanical designer supports engineers in the design and documentation of the company's industrial machinery and skid-mounted equipment portfolio. Experience working in one or more highly regulated industries will be strongly considered with transferable experience. Key requirements of this role follow.

• Design/update/re-design components for manufacturability, part count reduction, material savings, or performance.


• Determine raw material sizes/shapes/qty for manufactured components.


• Develop bills of materials


• Develop required project documentation including but not limited to:
  
  
  
  • Purchasing sketches, fabrication and machining drawings
  
  
  • Customer drawings
  
  
  • General arrangement and assembly drawings
  
  
  • schematics
  
  
  • Installation, operation, and maintenance manuals
  
  
  
  


• Develop conceptual designs for prototypes, fixtures, tooling and new products


• Model machinery or structural assemblies for engineering studies


• Assumes additional related responsibilities as assigned.

• 5+ years of related design experience without a degree or certificate. SolidWorks user certification strongly encouraged.


• 2+ years of related experience with Associates degree or technical certification, including engineering technology. SolidWorks user certification strongly encouraged.


• 1+ years of related experience with bachelor's degree in mechanical or structural engineering from an ABET accredited college or university.

• Proficiency reading, interpreting, and generating engineering drawings


• Strong written, verbal, and graphical communication skills


• Strong analytical problem-solving skills


• Must be willing/eager to learn & contribute to hands-on assignments


• Must be detail oriented


• Must be capable of working in a multi-discipline, fast-paced team environment

• Proficiency with GD&T principles and drafting standards


• Demonstrated ability to perform detailed tolerance analysis on multi-piece assemblies, interpret the results, and resolve component conflicts.


• Demonstrated ability to optimize component or assembly designs for manufacturing, part count reduction, material savings, and manufacturability.


• Must be familiar with engineering processes, i.e. change procedures, quality control, and approval processes, document control, and file management of CAD data.


• Familiarity with various manufacturing processes including but not limited to machining, i.e. milling & turning, welding, fabricating, bending/forming, and rigging.


• Fluent with SolidWorks, including assembly modeling, in-context relationships, configurations, bottom up and top-down techniques.


• Experience working with SolidWorks PDM (Enterprise/Professional desired) in a multi-user environment or similar PLM/PDM system.


• Must have demonstrated proficiency using Microsoft Office products including but not limited to Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.

• Proficiency with AutoCAD or similar 2D CAD packages


• Proficiency with SolidWorks add-ons including weldments, routing, simulation tools, and composer.


• Proficiency with engineering and manufacturing related modules of ERP systems including Part, Bill of Material, and Method of Manufacture creation and maintenance.