Mechanical Design Engineer

Mechanical Design Engineer role involves interpreting requirements to develop mechanical and electro-mechanical designs. 

Key responsibilities include:

• Understanding customer requirements and ensuring compliance
• Design validation and verification through analysis, testing, and reports
• Creating 3D CAD models and 2D manufacturing drawings
• Maintaining documentation like drawing lists, reports, and task lists
• Reviewing deviations, materials, and change requests
• Applying design principles for cost, manufacturing, and assembly
• Hands-on troubleshooting of mechanical issues
• Plans work and carries out tasks without detailed instructions, prepares for problems or opportunities in advance, undertakes additional responsibilities
• Develop and implement new ideas to improve processes
• Strong judgment and decision making
• Works harmoniously with others to get a job done, responds positively to instructions/procedures, and works well with others
• Organize and manage multiple priorities and effectively deal with tight deadlines and pressure.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Aerospace/Aeronautical Engineering from an accredited  four-year college or university.
• Experience in designing dynamic mechanical/electro-mechanical aerospace components
• Proficiency in 3D CAD software, such as SolidWorks (preferred), AutoCAD, or CATIA
• Preferred (not required): Master's degree, PMA design/certification, stress analysis skills, advanced CAD/manufacturing tools knowledge
• Ability to lift 40 lbs, work around equipment, and travel up to 15%
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be regularly required to sit, stand, bend, reach and move about the facility. The environment characteristic for this position is an office setting. Candidates should be able to adapt to a traditional business environment.

Detailed Duties and Responsibilities 

• Understand the customer requirements and track the compliance level of the design in a compliance matrix during the development phase
• Responsible for the design validation and verification, which includes analyses and tests as required
  • Loads analysis
  • Stress analysis using hand calculations or finite element analysis
  • Part and assembly tolerance analysis per ANSI Y14.5.
  • Functional, environmental, static load, robustness testing
• Responsible for the creation of mechanical parts and assemblies to meet the need of the Business Unit customers
• Use the CAD tools to create 3D models of parts and assemblies
• Generate the 2D manufacturing drawings per ANSI Y14.100, including advancing the use of Model Based Definition
• Responsible for creating and maintaining status of the drawing list for the project
• Create Test Requests and design test setups as required
• Understand and comply with all internal process requirements
• Provide a regular and clear status of all pending work
• Review and address the following items:
  • Vendor Deviation Requests
  • Material Review Reports
  • Drawing Change Requests
  • Problem Reports 
• Design parts to Cost, Manufacturability, Assembly requirements
• Ensure that the mechanical design work is performed in accordance with Design to Cost (DTC), Design for Manufacture (DFM), Design for Assembly (DFA) process requirements.
• Participate and be “hands on” in the troubleshooting of mechanical issues.
• Provide leadership on design of mechanical components and respond to Root Cause Analysis and Corrective Action Requests (RCCA)
• Get behind and advance the use of the SolidWorks suite of design tools (SW Premium with Simulation, SW Composer, SW Inspection, EPDM, SolidCAM).
• Creation, review and approval of technical reports covering the following topics:
  • Detail and Assembly Drawings per ANSI Y14.100, including advancing the use of Model Based Definition
  • Part and Assembly Tolerance Analysis per ANSI Y14.5.
  • Thermal Analysis
  • Stress Analysis
  • Applied Loads Report and Interface Loads Report
  • Root Cause Analysis and Corrective Action Requests (RCCA)All other duties as assigned