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Position Summary:
 

The primary responsibility for the Mechanical Engineer is to design, develop, and maintain all mechanical aspects for a family of gear manufacturing machines and automation.

Job Responsibilities:

• Design, development, documentation, and troubleshooting of gear manufacturing machines and automation.
• Work with other engineering groups (Electrical Controls, Fluid Power, Software and Application Engineering) to facilitate a Systems Engineering approach to the machine or automation design.
• Work with Proposals and Sales to understand customer specifications and applicable safety standards to develop machine cost and schedule estimates.
• Use 3D parametric CAD software for modeling of components and systems.
• Maintain Master BOMs for current and legacy machines.
• Ensure unique customer specifications are incorporated into each design.
• Review prior executions and compare/contrast to current practice.
• Evaluate technical performance of the resultant machine.
• Provide part specification changes (Engineering Change Order) based on design requirements.
• Interface with Manufacturing Engineering to apply the appropriate part coding and documentation to facilitate efficient machine assembly.
• Prioritize and address Engineering issues in a timely manner from Assembly, Runoff, Field Service or Supply Chain.
• Facilitate Design Reviews, FMEA (Failure Mode Effects Analysis) and Risk Management meetings by coordinating the meeting, recording/ publishing meeting minutes, formalizing documents, and driving the completion of open action items.
• Respond to internal and external requests for information. 
• Work in fast paced environment.                                   
• Participate in process improvement efforts that identify deficiencies in Mechanical Engineering and systematically develop solutions.                                         

Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills & Abilities):
 

CAD Skills:

• Solid Model Creation: use of 3D CAD software (Creo preferred).  With knowledge of mapkeys, UDFs, skeletons as well as large assembly management, piping and MBD.
• Ability to properly create and detail part prints including the use of GD&T
• Understanding of version/revision logic and can resolve conflicts. Use intent to modify and locking as needed.

Business System Skill:

• Bill of Material (BOM) Creation/Maintenance: Comprehension of how BOM’s work to ensure proper part release strategy
  
• Sales Order BOM: Understand Price Book options and their dependencies.

Machine/Automation Design

• Component Design: Apply proper fits to precision components, choose a component based on the manufacturer's data to suit a design specification, design for ease of manufacturing.
• System Design: develop options based on Customer Specifications from scratch; designs consist of motion items including rails/trucks, ability to integrate numerous purchased parts to minimize manufactured parts, design for ease of assembly.
• Component/Assembly Identification: Attend machine launch meetings and verify machine and assembly completeness and compliance with the customer's requirements. 
• Impact Estimation: provide Engineering hours and material cost estimation for quotations.
• Sheet Metal Design: use proper locating holes, rip reliefs, hand bends, and slots. Design for ease of manufacturing and assembly, use proper design intent.

Detailing - GD&T:

• GD&T and Tolerance Applications: have knowledge of and understand when and where to apply GD&T.  Develop required tolerances based on manufacturer's specifications.

Communication Skills

• Proven ability to:
• Communicate technical information effectively with all functional Engineering areas and other downstream and upstream departments within the plant
• communicate effectively verbally, in various electronic formats, and in writing, to specific audiences
• prepare written reports
• give verbal presentations
• use good judgment regarding the timeliness of communications and responses 
• Ability to work with other disciplines (Technicians, Runoff Operators, Field Service, etc.)

Time Management Skills

• Ability to manage workload effectively, to plan, organize, and prioritize work and meet deadlines

Project Management Skills

• Proven ability to manage details of technical requirements including task assignments, tracking, and communications
• Manage multiple projects at once while maintaining project cost and schedule constraints

Preferred Education/Training/Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 2-5 years’ relevant experience in Mechanical Engineering.

Computer Skills:

• Creo
• SAP
• Microsoft
  
• Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Travel Requirements:

• Negligible