Senior Design Engineer

Talent Finders, LLC; Newberg (OR); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Talent Finders, LLC in Oregon is seeking a Senior Design Engineer to join a dynamic engineering team. This senior individual contributor will design high‑level electro‑mechanical systems and mentor junior engineers, with a focus on tight tolerance mechanisms including gears, bearings and motors.

The role leads projects from concept to launch, collaborates across disciplines, performs tolerance and FEA analyses, ensures manufacturability and safety, and supports product testing in a fast‑paced

Qualifications

• 8-10 years of related design experience.
• Proven ability to lead large, complex projects.
• Experience with high-tolerance mechanical design.
• Ability to mentor junior engineers.
• Experience with electro-mechanical systems in heavy industrial applications.

Responsibilities

• Lead design projects from concept to completion.
• Mentor junior engineers on the team.
• Translate customer requirements into specifications.
• Perform tolerance analysis and design for manufacturability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional PDT.
• Support product testing and field deployments.

Skills

Tight tolerance design

Gears & bearings

Electro-mechanical systems

CAD modeling

Cross-functional collaboration

Root cause analysis

Product testing & validation

Lean principles

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

Autodesk Inventor

SolidWorks

Finite Element Analysis

GD&T

Syteline

Sage

Job description

Extremely well run manufacturer of sophisticated capital equipment seeks a Senior Design Engineer to join the team. This key role will be a senior individual contributor on the team and will be expected to not only execute high level designs of complex electro-mechanical equipment but also mentor more junior engineers on the team. Ideal candidates will have expeirence with tight tolerance mechanicsm design, ideally to include gears, bearings, motors, etc. Fantastic team within a very growing company. The company embraces a hybrid work environment with 2 days working from home the norm, if desired.

SUMMARY: The Senior Design Engineer III shall have experience developing highly complex electromechanical systems for use in heavy industrial global applications. The role requires leading design projects from the start and through completion, supporting product documentation and collaborating in a cross functional team environment using formal product development methodologies. The applicable candidate must have the ability to effectively foresee product risks and mitigate them to ensure an effective product launch as well as ensure operator safety during operation. The position will require the ability to define, design, test and launch new products into the marketplace quickly and effectively with little or no rework. The candidate shall have hands-on experience in product testing, troubleshooting and ensuring the product is meeting all advertised requirements. Experience in use of computational engineering tools, finite element analysis, tolerance stack up analysis and other analysis tools is preferred.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Willingly, consistently and professionally demonstrates the values of our company while supporting the company vision, mission in exceeding our customer expectations.
• Shall be a strong engineer with the ability to evaluate and develop complex mechanisms with robust precision movements for various applications.
• Shall be capable of modeling concepts and detailed designs using CAD software; (Autodesk Inventor or SolidWorks preferred).
• Shall be able to translate customer requirements into a product specification with the intent of implementation into formal design documentation.
• Shall be able to collaborate with a cross functional product development team to meet or exceed the customer/market requirements and optimize costs and lead-times to market.
• Shall be a critical thinker with ability to quickly evaluate risks of project deliverables as well as design solution features vs. requirements.
• May have experience in evaluating product risks through formal tools such as DFMEA or equivalent.
• May have experience in designing large fabrications with high tolerance features to support integration with electro-mechanical mechanisms.
• May have experience with sizing appropriate system power sources; hydraulic, pneumatic, AC Electrics, DC Electrics, etc.
• May have experience in properly sizing components to ensure stress, strain and fatigue of components are within working range of the product application.
• May have experience generating prints per ASME or ANSI standards with effective use of GD&T.
• Possess strong verbal, written and cross functional communications skills. Must be able to work with cross functional Product Development Team (PDT) to ensure product features are defined, designed and validated prior to product launch.
• Offer creative and innovative suggestions for solutions to problems while supporting new standard product definition requirements.
• Shall have experience working directly with customers/end users to capture product requirements as well as understand market requirements.
• Work proactively with operations to ensure customer expectations are exceeded through Stage gate product development processes, resulting in a robust manufacturable design.
• Capable of managing several projects at once, requiring strong time management skills.
• Shall be able to complete multiple component tolerance stack-up analysis for large assemblies.
• Shall have experienced in completing formal root cause analysis of quality issues and support eliminating equipment down time during the life of the product.
• Provides direction and required details for layouts and drafting to machine designer/drafter team.
• Provides engineering-based project management communication with the program office.
• Provides overall systems solution focus based on customer/market requirements.
• Effective customer communication (voice of customer) to understand complete application/needs.
• Effectively considers implications of machine configuration on system/operator safety.
• Supports final product testing/demonstrations with hands on approach and specification focus.
• Able to support customer on-site testing (when necessary) and provide operational support in a real-time environment
• Defines Verification and Validation steps through detailed product specification and product testing.
• Capable of providing customer training, when necessary, on new products.
• Capable of generating product Bills of Materials and Item Cards in ERP system; Syteline, Sage or Intuitive.
• Understands and abides by sound design for manufacturability principles.
• Applies lean principles to work flow/project management for process improvements.
• Establish partnerships with major key accounts with and interest of solving their product needs and supporting the Sales team with technical solutions.
• Capable of working with 3rd party engineering firms with an interest of expanding engineering capacity when necessary.
• Ability to effectively conduct product and system risk assessments; formal and informal.
• Handles stress in a professional manner, demonstrates the ability to get along with others, demonstrates successful attendance and punctuality, and works overtime / extra hours as required to meet spikes in business.
• Travel to gather critical information to meet customer and business needs is required (passport needed). (Less than 10% travel, primarily domestic, international travel required on occasion.)
• Other duties as required.

EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE

Bachelors in Engineering or higher; 8-10 years of related design experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Proven ability to lead, manage, and complete large and complex projects.