Senior Mechanical R&D Engineer: Lead Innovation & Design

LIFE TECHNOLOGIES HOLDINGS PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Thermo Fisher Scientific is seeking a Staff Engineer, Mechanical R&D in Singapore. You will lead mechanical design initiatives across product development, contributing to cost optimization and quality improvements while collaborating with R&D, quality and procurement teams.

You'll guide a mechanical/industrial design team, manage multiple functions and ensure on-time launches. Expertise in 3D CAD (SolidWorks), design for manufacturing, and CFD/flow analysis are essential.

Qualifications

• Mechanical design in product development life cycle.
• Design for Manufacturing in machining, casting, plastics injection molding and sheetmetal.
• Geometrical dimensioning and tolerancing.
• Good knowledge in optomechanical, electromechanical mechanism and mechanism design.
• Familiar in analyzing flow/thermal characteristics (CFD/flow simulation).
• Completed and lead at least one product life cycle design.
• Project management.

Responsibilities

• Lead a mechanical/Industrial Design team and ensure adequate resources to projects.
• Capable of technical leading multiple functions in an assigned project and to manage project timeline in ensuring successful launch of product.
• Generates/Provides conceptual proposal in supporting mechanical design review.
• Provide/Guide team on mechanical architecture and together coordinating with design center on finalizing industrial design.
• Execute/Review/Approve detail design utilizing 3-dimensional modeling and 2-dimensional detail drawings.
• Proficient in 3D CAD modeling preferably Solidworks.
• Establish modular design and full product bill of material structure.
• Create/Review/Approve sub-assembly test plan and report if any.
• Ensuring team's design fully integrated into mechanical architecture and design robustness.
• Provide coaching to the juniors and suggest design enhancement if necessary.
• Ability to work with vendors on design for manufacturability and supplier/vendor on cost negotiation in order to achieve product Cost of Goods Sold (COGS).
• Good understanding of design to cost target on mechanical architecture.
• Ability to manage a team and drive for results
• Drive/contribute to technology and innovation into R&D portal
• Support and assign to technology development if any

Skills

Mechanical design

3D CAD modeling

SolidWorks

Design for Manufacturing

Project management

Flow/thermal analysis

Mentoring juniors

Cost optimization

Cross-functional collaboration

Risk assessment

Education

Degree/Master in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

SolidWorks

CFD software

Job description

Thermo Fisher Scientific is seeking a Staff Engineer, Mechanical R&D in Singapore. You will lead mechanical design initiatives across product development, contributing to cost optimization and quality improvements while collaborating with R&D, quality and procurement teams.

You'll guide a mechanical/industrial design team, manage multiple functions and ensure on-time launches. Expertise in 3D CAD (SolidWorks), design for manufacturing, and CFD/flow analysis are essential.