Mechanical Project Engineer

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Research, design and develop components, equipment, and systems to satisfy technical, timeline, cost, quality and customer requirements
• Continuous improvement of products via design enhancements, cost down measures and quality improvements that improve customer satisfaction
• Address customer and supplier driven change requests and warranty issues relating to our products
• Complete, research, design layouts, feasibility studies, cost analyses to justify design improvements
• Facilitate regular design reviews with cross functional teams for any new designs
• Create & check 3D layouts, models, detailed drawings, Bills of Materials, & engineering changes requests
• Perform basic design analysis and tolerance studies to ensure design quality is achieved
• Ensure that designs meet customer, technical, legal, and safety requirements
• Assist with test planning, prototype fabrications and builds to validate any new designs
• Collaborate with other departments including Sourcing, Production, Quality and Customer Support
• Regularly present status of design activities, and any open issues to Engineering managers
• Communicate effectively through all levels of the organization

Qualifications:

• 3+ years’ experience developing mechanical, structural and or hydraulic systems for mobile/heavy equipment
• Proficient at mechanical design using 3D-CAD (Siemens NX, preferred)
• Experience with manufacturing processes, design to cost (DTC) and value analysis (VA)
• Experience with bill of material management with ERP system (SAP, preferred)
• Experience with design of sheet metal parts, welded structures, and machining practices
• Experience with design analysis and tolerance stack-ups
• Effective collaboration skills with diverse, and multinational colleagues
   

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Technology, or comparable field required

Supervisor Responsibilities:

• None