Engineer III, Mechanical Engineering

Stanley Black & Decker; Towson (MD); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Life insurance

Vision care

Wellness program

Disability insurance

401k

ESOP

PTO

Job summary

Stanley Black & Decker in Towson, MD is seeking an Engineer III, Mechanical to own design processes from concept through testing and production. You will lead cross-functional efforts, perform advanced analyses, and drive root-cause investigations to ensure robust product performance.

Strong CAD/FEA skills (CATIA a plus) and experience with DOE methods are required, with travel to manufacturing sites possible. This role aligns with STANLEY TOOLS and DEWALT Cordless Power Tools brands.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering with 3–5 years of experience.
• Experience with product development: Design, DFM, root-cause analysis, test instrumentation and data acquisition and analysis.
• Quality experience with statistical tools, process capability, DOE's, stack-ups.
• Coordination of internal and external resources.
• Possible international travel to visit manufacturing locations.

Responsibilities

• Carry out the design process to meet quality, performance, schedule and cost objectives in a cross-functional environment.
• Perform hands-on concept development, prototyping, product testing, data collection and specification definition.
• Conduct stack-ups and system analysis to ensure consistent lifetime performance of the product.
• Investigate design issues & test failures; implement corrective actions.
• Collaborate with Product Marketing, Reliability, Field Research to define customer requirements and translate into specifications and test systems.
• Lead design reviews with suppliers and stakeholders; work in a core team to bring a product from start to finish.
• Support prototype builds and initial production lots to ensure correct assembly and testing.

Skills

DOE analysis

Root cause analysis

Statistical tools

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

CATIA

FEA

CAD

Job description

Engineer III, Mechanical

D E WALT Cordless Power Tools

We Don’t Just Build The World, We Build Innovative Technology Too.

Come Build The World With Us

This is the career you've been waiting for your whole life. Joining the Stanley Black & Decker team means working in an innovative, tech-driven and highly collaborative team environment supported by over 58,000 professionals in 60 countries across the globe. Here, you'll get the unique chance to impact some of the world's most iconic brands including STANLEY TOOLS, D E WALT, CRAFTSMAN, MAC TOOLS and Black & Decker. Your ideas and solutions have the potential to reach millions of customers as we work together to write the next chapter in our history. Come build with us and take your career to new heights.

Who We Are

We're the World's largest tool company. We design and develop the tools that are used to change the world every day here in our engineering headquarters in Towson, Maryland. Our design teams are involved with every step of the process bringing these world class products to life. From conducting end user research to identify new needs, to designing and prototyping tools to ensure we meet our customers high expectations, to creating robust tests to guarantee the tools we make stand up to the toughest environments, our engineers own every aspect of the process along the way.

Who You Are

You're a strong problem solver who loves digging into the details to fully understand what is going on. You have fixed a lot of problems, so you know how sort out what is meaningful and what is not to be as efficient as possible. You have run DOE's and done the statistics to make well informed decisions. You like getting your hands dirty and want to be the one disassembling a problem to find out what is broken and how to fix it. You're agile and adaptable but work with precision to ensure we deliver top-notch customer experiences, always. You want to work on a project where you can see the fruits of your labor come to life and enjoy getting to see the finished product on the shelves of major retailers around the globe. You also have:

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering with 3 to 5 years of experience.
• Computer literate; MS Word, Power Point, Excel, FEA, 2D/3D CAD (CATIA experience a plus),
• Demonstrated ability to dissect a problem to find the root cause, design a solution and create a test method to prove out the issue really is fixed.
• Enjoys getting your hands dirty and being involved in building, testing and du-bugging tools throughout the development cycle
• Experience with product development: Design, DFM, root cause analysis, test instrumentation and data acquisition and analysis
• Quality - use of statistical tools, process capability, DOE's, stack-ups
• Coordination of internal and external resources
• Accountable for managing the design process and owning the results
• Enjoy Full/fast-paced design cycles that average 2 years and a dynamic work environment
• Possible international travel to visit manufacturing locations (post-COVID)

What You'll Do

• Successfully carry out the design process to achieve all quality, performance, schedule and cost objectives in a cross-functional environment.
• Perform hands-on concept development, prototyping, product testing, data collection and definition of product specifications.
• Independently carry out advanced stack-ups and system analysis to ensure product assembly and functionality remain consistent throughout its lifetime.
• Investigate design issues & test failures, and effectively identify, recommend and implement corrective actions to components.
• Partner with cross-functional teams (Product Marketing, Reliability, Field Research) to identify and clearly define customer requirements, and translate those requirements into appropriate product specifications and develop test systems to ensure we meet or exceed customer expectations
• Meet with suppliers, project stakeholders to review designs and alter as needed. Drive the component and assembly design review
• Work in a core team of 3-4 engineers/designers to develop a product from start to finish
• Support prototype builds for engineering and manufacturing teams and initial production lots to ensure that the products are assembled and tested in the correct way to ensure long term product quality
• Implements design and process controls, conducts root-cause analysis, and apply statistical and Lean Six-Sigma techniques to maintain and improve product quality as problems arise thru the product development cycle
• Adhere to established engineering processes for all engineering requirements to deliver a product that meets our history of guaranteed tough products

Benefits & Perks

You'll get a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits plan that includes medical, dental, life, vision, wellness program, disability, 401k, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Paid Time Off, includi