Senior Mechanical Engineer (Manufacturing)

About this role:

Create and execute mechanical designs for high-volume production and automation. Work closely with Design, Manufacturing, and Automation Engineers to deliver production capable mechatronics. Leverage your analysis toolkit to ensure the production systems operate in a safe and reliable manner. Innovate on new tooling designs to allow rapid development of production systems.

What's essential:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering with a minimum of 5 years work experience that includes hands-on experience in a medium to high volume manufacturing environment.
• Expertise with Finite Element Analysis (FEA) in either Ansys, Nastran/Patran, or other commercial package.
• Experience developing welded joints to AWS (or ISO or equivalent) standards.
• Demonstrable expertise in design of mechanisms and fixtures.
• Experience leveraging Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) per ASME Y14.5 to ensure effective assembly of complex hardware.
• Experience with design for manufacture for CNC Machining, sheet metal fabrication, and structural steel framing.
• Expertise with 3D CAD such as Solidworks, Catia, Creo, Siemens NX, or similar.
• Excellent communicator, able to convey complex concepts to multidisciplinary teams.

Desirable:

• Manufacturing or Production experience preferably in the automotive, aerospace, or commercial electronics industries or similar.
• Experience implementing Poka-Yoke (Error Proofing), and PFMEA (Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis).
• Working knowledge of 3D Printing including Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM), Stereolithography (SLA), and Selective Laser Sintering (SLS)
• Demonstrable experience designing robot end effectors for high-volume production.
• AWS Certified Welding Engineer.
• Solidworks specific experience.