Design Engineer

Riverscape Search Agency; Brodhead (WI); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K match

Health insurance

Tuition reimbursement

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Top Echelon Software, LLC seeks a Design Engineer to design and redesign feed mixers for livestock, using Creo. You will work with engineering, sales, and manufacturing to ensure solutions meet customer needs, cost targets, and safety standards.

The role reports to the Engineering Manager and offers a collaborative, growth-oriented environment with a focus on continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• 1+ year of experience in designing agricultural or heavy equipment.
• Experience with metal fabrication, machining, and welding is helpful.
• A farm background is a plus for understanding equipment needs.

Responsibilities

• Design or redesign feed mixers for livestock using Creo.
• Develop product designs based on customer needs, manufacturability, cost, and safety.
• Define design specifications with product teams and customers.
• Create test plans and direct design testing with test personnel.
• Set product quality and tolerance specs for designs.
• Select hydraulic, power transmission, and structural components.
• Collaborate with manufacturing on tooling and processes.
• Build knowledge of products by attending trade shows and monitoring competitors.

Skills

1+ year experience designing equipment

Metal fabrication

Welding knowledge

Farm background

Education

BS Agricultural or Mechanical Engineering

Tools

Creo

Job description

Our client is a 198-year-old manufacturer of agricultural equipment, and they are looking for a Design Engineer who will focus their activities on designing and redesigning pieces of large Ag equipment.You will report to the Engineering Manager.

Company

– A major player in the agricultural equipment industry

• A growing $1.3 Billion multinational organization with over 5,000 employees.
• This location has several hundred team members
• Production orders booked out for a year.
• Dynamic CEO who was promoted from within to lead the organization to new heights.
• Outstanding culture focused on safety and the growth of the individual.

Community

• Education Access to high-quality public and private K-12 schools and tech-focused post-secondary institutions.
• Safety Safe, family-friendly community with consistently low crime rates and strong public services.
• Recreation Enjoy outdoor trails, lakes, youth sports, and weekend festivals in a close-knit, active community.
• Cost of Living Significantly below national averages—more house, savings, and quality of life for your dollar.

Benefits and Features – They truly VALUE and APPRECIATE their employees!

• EXCELLENT Benefits and Compensation Plan –3% Employer match on 401K, Health, Vision, Dental, tuition reimbursement, Employee Assistance Program, Life Insurance and more
• Reliable bonus program!
• Work/Life Balance – when you take a vacation, you get to take a REAL vacation and not a working vacation where you are tethered to your laptop and email. Your team has your back!
• Culture of continuous improvement where team members have a voice and good ideas are appreciated by all levels of the organization.
• It is a business casual workplace.
• Relocation assistance if needed

What you will be doing:

• Focus on a project basis designing or redesigning feed mixers for livestock using Creo.
• Develop and evaluate product designs based on customer needs, manufacturability, cost, and safety.
• Develop design specifications in collaboration with product management, sales and marketing, manufacturing, product development teams, product/applications testing, and customers for projects assigned
• Develop test plans and direct testing of the design with test personnel.
• Set product quality and tolerance specifications for designs.
• Design and/or select hydraulic, power transmission, and structural components.
• Work with manufacturing to develop tooling and new manufacturing processes as assigned.
• Develop a high level of knowledge of company’s products by attending trade shows, initiating customer contacts, understanding customer service requirements, and monitoring competitors.
• Keep abreast of new products, technologies, and competitive equipment in the industry and communicate information to company personnel.

What they are looking for:

• BS Agricultural or Mechanical Engineering
• 1+ year of experience designing agricultural or heavy mobile equipment, internship experience will count
• Good 3D CAD skills, they use Creo
• Knowledge of metal fabrication, machining, and welding would be very helpful
• A farm background would be wonderful