Senior Mechanical Design Engineer - Live Events & Rigging

TAIT; Lititz, Northern (Lancaster County, KY); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive medical, dental, vision

Health Savings Account (HSA)

401(k) with company match

Paid vacation and 12 holidays

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Flexible Spending Accounts

Parental leave

Job summary

TAIT seeks a Mechanical Design Engineer to lead project-based mechanical design for specialized machinery, rigging systems, and structures used in live entertainment. You will collaborate across departments to move concepts from initial idea to opening night, ensuring safety, quality, and manufacturability.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in related technical fields, strong 3D CAD skills (Inventor preferred), and experience with rigging and modular structures.

Qualifications

• BA/BS/BFA in technical theater, engineering, architecture, industrial design and 5+ years of experience in a related technical field

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with project teams to develop innovative and effective technical solutions that align with project objectives and exceed client expectations.
• Plan and execute technical solutions to work within scope, schedule, and budget.
• Apply TAIT design best practices to design for fit and finish, manufacturing efficiency, onsite assembly + disassembly, and packaging.
• Identify and understand the underlying physics of complex problems to create successful technical solutions.
• Identify and prioritize project specific requirements and constraints to drive technical solutions.
• Apply TAIT Project Delivery best practices and processes including design reviews, project team meetings, and use of planning systems/software.
• Participate in client meetings and produce client-facing drawing packages as needed.
• Communicate effectively through hand sketches, 2D CAD drawings and cross sections.
• Efficiently generate robust and clean 3D models to support TAIT’s collaborative design process.
• Produce pitch studies, schematics, storyboards, weight studies, and other supporting tasks to advance the design + engineering process.
• Identify appropriate timing and scale of prototyping to support design + engineering process.
• Recognize aspects of project work requiring engineering rigor to collaborate with internal and external engineering review on assigned project work.
• Identify long lead time items and work with purchasing department to procure project specific components and materials.
• Use custom TAIT CAD tools as appropriate in design and detailing processes.
• Maintain project documentation including drawing redlines and operation manuals as required
• Release assembly and part drawings to be manufactured internal to TAIT as well as through subcontracting vendors using appropriate dimensioning and tolerancing.
• Efficiently solve technical issues as they may arise during fabrication, testing, and/or commissioning.
• Support legacy TAIT equipment as required by project needs and/or support department requests.
• Maintain awareness of standard of solutions within TAIT’s markets, product lines, and platforms.
• Maintain awareness of TAIT’s markets and competition.

Skills

3D CAD modeling

Overhead rigging design

Machinery design

Structural design

Live entertainment tech knowledge

Cross-functional collaboration

Based in Lititz PA

Education

BA/BS/BFA in technical theater, engineering, architecture, industrial design

Tools

Autodesk Inventor

BIM

Job description

TAIT seeks a Mechanical Design Engineer to lead project-based mechanical design for specialized machinery, rigging systems, and structures used in live entertainment. You will collaborate across departments to move concepts from initial idea to opening night, ensuring safety, quality, and manufacturability.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in related technical fields, strong 3D CAD skills (Inventor preferred), and experience with rigging and modular structures.