Senior Mechanical Engineer

ABCO Automation, Inc.; Greensboro, Winston-Salem, High Point (NC, NC, NC); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

ABCO Automation, Inc. is seeking a Senior Mechanical Engineer to lead mechanical engineering efforts for automated machines, robotic cells, and material handling systems. You will design, model, and specify components, lead risk and tolerance analyses, and drive manufacturability and DFMA improvements.

You will mentor engineers and interns while supporting fabrication, testing and installation activities to deliver projects on time and to spec.

Qualifications

• Experience designing highly complex automated machines and systems.
• Experience with DFMA and manufacturability reviews.
• Mentoring engineers and interns.

Responsibilities

• Conceptualizes and designs highly complex automatic machines and systems.
• Manages the scope of mechanical design across projects, including supervising engineers and designers.
• Leads technical risk evaluation, functional decomposition and interface management.
• Ensures commitments on cost, schedule, function, performance, serviceability, and appearance.
• Leads design reviews covering tolerances, manufacturability, and material specs; DFMA.
• Supports fabrication, testing and installation activities to ensure conformance with design.
• Provides reports and presentations on designs and test results.
• Mentors other Mechanical Engineers, Interns and apprentices.

Job description

ABCO is looking for a Senior Mechanical Engineer who can provide mechanical engineering leadership for projects as well as testing and installation support. The successful candidate will have substantial experience with automation, expert solid modeling design skills, project development experience and risk management skills. Work experience with material selection, fabrication and machining processes used for making components required.

Major Accountabilities:

• Conceptualizes and designs highly complex automatic machines, robotic cells and material handling systems, including development and checking of technical specifications, drawings and bills of material. Assignments require creativity, initiative and good engineering judgement.
• Manages the scope of work for mechanical design on projects, including planning, supervising and verifying the work of other engineers and designers to ensure effective performance of the work.
• Provides leadership and direction in technical risk evaluation, functional decomposition and interface management to design team. Provides technical expertise in automation and equipment engineering practices.
• Ensures commitments on projects are met including cost, schedule, function, performance, serviceability, and appearance. Delivers complete and accurate designs within the allotted time.
• Leads design reviews to evaluate: functional and regulatory requirements, error budget development, tolerance analysis, sub-assembly decomposition, manufacturability, material specifications, bills of material development including use of standard components, and validation processes. Experienced with DFMA product development techniques.
• Supports sales activities including initial customer meetings, design conceptualization, hours estimating and quote generation. Develops and maintains positive customer relations and works to identify additional sales opportunities.
• Creates 3D part/assembly models and detail drawings for manufacture per design best practices using Solidworks®. Must be able to perform tolerance and finite element analysis on components and assemblies. Working knowledge of Inventor®, AutoCAD®, and other CAD software a plus.
• Supports fabrication, testing and installation activities to ensure products and systems conform to engineering design and customer specifications.
• Devises and promotes continuous improvement efforts focused on work systems and methods.
• Provides effective reports and presentations to communicate concepts, designs, test results, etc.
• Effectively uses company’s systems and procedures, to manage work in an accurate and timely manner.
• Mentors other Mechanical Engineers, Interns and apprentices