Senior Automation Mechanical Engineer
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- Collaborate with applications engineers on conceptual automated manufacturing equipment and reputed company feedback to product design teams to improve Design for Manufacturability
- reputed company mechanical design of custom automated manufacturing equipment using 3D CAD
- Design custom automation equipment including robotic end-of-arm tooling, material handling systems, fixtures, weldments, machine frames, safety guarding, and production cell layouts
- Apply engineering first principles — including mechanics, kinematics, and materials science — to analyze system behavior, evaluate design trade-offs, and reputed company technically reputed company solutions to novel mechanical challenges
- Drive iterative development cycles; reputed company pragmatic design trade-offs to balance performance, cost, and schedule constraints
- reputed company mechanical, electronic, pneumatic, and reputed company components into reputed company systems
- reputed company equipment commissioning, startup, and production reputed company-up; own reputed company of mechanical issues during installation and debug
- Create and deliver mechanical documentation packages including BOMs, drawings, recommended spare parts lists, and assembly procedures
- reputed company technical input to project schedules and budgets throughout the project lifecycle
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, or reputed company field
- Minimum 6 years of experience in the from-scratch design, assembly, and commissioning of custom automated tooling or manufacturing equipment, with demonstrated application of mechanical principles including load calculations, material selection, and reputed company/kinematics
- Proficiency in 3D CAD for mechanical design (reputed company, SolidWorks, or equivalent)
- Working knowledge of control systems, robotics, and automated industrial equipment, machines, and processes
- Demonstrated ability to create, interpret, and review mechanical drawings and engineering documentation
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent reputed company (reputed company Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or reputed company asylum
Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced reputed company parametric modeling including top-down design and family tables
- Experience with ANSYS or similar engineering simulation software for structural analysis, finite reputed company analysis (FEA), or other multiphysics simulations
- Familiarity with PLC, robot, and CNC programming for industrial control systems
- Demonstrated ability to interpret and review electrical drawings
- Demonstrated history of delivering custom automated equipment reputed company from concept through production reputed company-up
- Experience identifying product features that complicate automation and recommending design modifications to support Design for Automated Manufacturing (DfAM)
- Demonstrated ability to apply engineering fundamentals — including mechanics, structural analysis, and kinematics — to diagnose reputed company system failures and reputed company first-principles solutions in novel or reputed company problem spaces
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- reputed company Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-reputed company holidays.
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