Description
Job Title: Mechanical Engineer
Location: Erie, PA
Employment Type: Direct Hire
Industry: Manufacturing
Compensation: $70K - $80K/year.
Schedule: 40 hours/week
About the Opportunity
- This role is part of the Engineering Team in a small manufacturing environment.
- This is an excellent opportunity to join a long-established but growing family-owned company.
- Acts with integrity, drive for results, communicates and influences, demonstrates business acumen, thinks strategically, drives a continuous improvement culture, develops employees, team and self.
Why You'll Love Working Here
- Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability.
- Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries.
- People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work.
- Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates.
Why This Opportunity is Exciting
- This role offers the chance to join a company that prioritizes both people and performance-where your contributions directly impact client success while giving you room to grow and develop professionally.
What You'll Do
- Perform full lifecycle product development (design, develop, test prototypes and manufactured tools).
- Research, analyze, and design tools and components that meet or exceed customer needs and requirements.
- Work with various foundries, tool and die companies, and local machine shops to produce new or re-designed components for tools.
- Where needed, re-design tools to upgrade, reduce costs, and increase profitability.
- Continuously work to reduce overall costs.
- Work directly with external and internal groups to design for manufacturability.
- Identify, formulate, and produce effective solutions to emerging problems.
- Evaluate final product's overall performance, reliability, and safety.
- Alter and modify designs to meet requirements.
- Prepare product reports and documentation (i.e., product specifications and operating instructions, process and inspection sheets, and assembly instructions).
- Assist customer service to support end users in the field.
Job Requirements
What You'll Bring
- Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering Technology.
What Sets You Apart
- 3+ years of experience in industrial manufacturing.
- Fluent with 2D and 3D engineering design and manufacturing tools utilizing Creo.
- Excellent communication and people skills.
- Excellent team and leadership skills, proficient analytical and computer skills.
- Adequate knowledge of engineering analysis, mathematical computing, and analysis tools (Creo Simulate software).
- Solid understanding of core concepts including mechanics, kinematics, thermodynamics, materials science, and other related topics.
- Ability to communicate technical knowledge.
- Technical writing skills.
- Experience with motors, circuitry, cordless technology, and related fields.
- Basic computer skills.
Additional Information
- Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check.
- Lifting/Moving 20-50 lbs; Frequent.
- Ability to move over 50 lbs using lifting aide equipment; Occasional.
- Twisting/Bending.
- Pushing/Pulling/moving objects, equipment with wheels; Frequent.
- Climbing/accessing heights; Seldom.
- Sitting; Seldom.
- Standing; Frequent with ability to stand for extended periods of time.
- Walking; Frequent.
- Talking / Hearing; Occasional.
- Writing; Seldom.
- Manual Keying/Data Entry; Occasional.
Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, TalentRise, Viaduct) are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran.
Applicants for this position must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position does not meet the employment requirements for individuals with F-1 OPT STEM work authorization status.