Hands-On Mechanical Design Engineer for Equipment Upgrades

Colonial Group; Fort Worth (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

ATCO Rubber Products, a Mueller Industries subsidiary, seeks a hands-on Manufacturing Equipment Engineer to support and improve industrial machinery on the Fort Worth shop floor. You will diagnose problems, rebuild equipment, and drive reliability improvements with maintenance teams and production personnel.

This is not desk-only; you will inspect, redesign components, and manage projects from problem identification through installation and startup, ensuring safer, more maintainable equipment

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field.
• Minimum of 5 years hands-on experience with industrial manufacturing machinery.
• Experience designing, repairing, modifying, or rebuilding industrial machinery.
• Strong understanding of bearings, shafting, power transmission, pneumatics, hydraulics, motors, gearboxes.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot mechanical and electromechanical problems on industrial manufacturing machinery.
• Lead equipment rebuilds, repairs, upgrades, and reliability improvement projects.
• Identify recurring equipment failures and develop permanent corrective actions.
• Design and modify machine components, assemblies, guarding, frames, fixtures, and mechanisms.
• Work directly with maintenance personnel to diagnose failures and improve equipment uptime.
• Evaluate bearings, shafts, gearboxes, motors, power transmission systems, pneumatics, hydraulics, and other machine components.
• Develop 3D CAD models, fabrication drawings, assembly drawings, and bills of materials.
• Support installation, startup, commissioning, and troubleshooting of new or modified equipment.
• Improve existing machinery for safety, reliability, maintainability, throughput, and operator usability.
• Coordinate projects with machinists, fabricators, electricians, controls engineers, vendors, and production personnel.
• Help develop preventive and predictive maintenance strategies for critical manufacturing equipment.
• Maintain engineering documentation and support standardization of equipment designs and replacement components.

Skills

Troubleshooting

Equipment maintenance

Reliability engineering

Mechanical design

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Documentation

On-site execution

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

Solid Edge

SolidWorks

Inventor

Job description

ATCO Rubber Products, a Mueller Industries subsidiary, seeks a hands-on Manufacturing Equipment Engineer to support and improve industrial machinery on the Fort Worth shop floor. You will diagnose problems, rebuild equipment, and drive reliability improvements with maintenance teams and production personnel.

This is not desk-only; you will inspect, redesign components, and manage projects from problem identification through installation and startup, ensuring safer, more maintainable equipment