Senior Mechanical Engineer

Massman Companies; Madison (WI); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Massman Companies is seeking a Senior Mechanical Engineer to own the design of liquid-filling automation from concept through customer acceptance. You will tackle container challenges, optimize speed and precision, and integrate mechanical, servo, pneumatics, instrumentation, and controls into reliable equipment.

You’ll lead the engineering effort from kickoff to testing and customer acceptance, collaborating with customers, manufacturing teams, controls engineers, suppliers, and other

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Robotics, Automation, Manufacturing Engineering, Electromechanical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 8+ years of experience designing complex automated production machinery; 10+ years preferred.
• Advanced SOLIDWORKS expertise, including complex assemblies, servo-driven motion, pneumatics, BOMs, and manufacturing drawings.
• Strong systems-level engineering and problem-solving capability, with experience integrating mechanical designs with controls, electrical systems, sensors, instrumentation, robotics, and other automation technologies.
• Demonstrated senior-level technical leadership and engineering judgment, balancing customer requirements with manufacturability, reliability and cost.

Responsibilities

• Own and lead the design of sophisticated liquid-filling automation from concept through customer acceptance.
• Collaborate directly with customers, manufacturing teams, controls engineers, suppliers, and other technical specialists.
• Make key design decisions, lead technical reviews, and solve real-world problems as machines are built.
• Ensure each system delivers performance, quality, cost, and schedule commitments.

Skills

Senior technical leadership

Engineering judgment

SOLIDWORKS proficiency

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

SOLIDWORKS

Job description

Brief Description Design the machines behind the products people use every day.

Brief Description Design the machines behind the products people use every day.

At Ideal Pase, our engineers don't just design components—they create complete automated machines that turn an empty container into a finished product ready for the consumer. Our equipment helps package products from brands you probably already have in your kitchen, garage, or laundry room—from premium paints, hot sauces, olive oils, and food products to laundry detergents, wines, adhesives, and countless other liquids.

As a Senior Mechanical Engineer, you'll take technical ownership of sophisticated liquid-filling automation from initial concept through customer acceptance. Every application presents a new engineering challenge: How do we accurately fill a difficult product? How do we accommodate an unusual container? How do we increase speed without sacrificing precision? And how do mechanical systems, servo motion, pneumatics, instrumentation, electrical hardware, and controls come together as one reliable, high-performance machine?

You'll be one of the engineers answering those questions—and turning the answers into real equipment.

You'll lead the engineering effort from project kick-off through design, build, testing, and customer acceptance. Along the way, you'll collaborate directly with customers, manufacturing teams, controls engineers, suppliers, and other technical specialists. You'll make key design decisions, lead technical reviews, solve real-world problems as machines come to life on our production floor, and help ensure each system delivers on its performance, quality, cost, and schedule commitments.

Ideal Pase, the liquid-filling business unit of Massman Companies, is growing across our operations in Eagan, Minnesota and Madison, Wisconsin. We're looking for an experienced machine designer who wants more than a steady stream of CAD assignments. This is an opportunity to take technical ownership of complex machinery, solve challenging automation problems, influence how our next generation of equipment is designed, and experience the satisfaction of watching machines you helped create produce real products for real customers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Robotics, Automation, Manufacturing Engineering, Electromechanical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 8+ years of experience designing complex automated production machinery; 10+ years preferred. Experience with packaging, liquid filling, robotics, material handling, process equipment, or similar industrial automation is highly valued.
• Advanced mechanical design and SOLIDWORKS expertise, including complex assemblies, mechanisms, servo-driven motion, pneumatics, precision components, tooling, manufacturing drawings, BOMs, and technical documentation.
• Strong systems-level engineering and problem-solving capability, with experience integrating mechanical designs with controls, electrical systems, sensors, instrumentation, robotics, and other automation technologies.
• Demonstrated senior-level technical leadership and engineering judgment, with the ability to balance customer requirements, standardization, manufacturability, reliability, cost, and maintainability while effectively collaborating across engineering, manufacturing, sales, suppliers, and customers.

Summary

Massman Companies is a leader in the design and manufacturing of precision automated machinery, Massman Companies has been providing innovative packaging systems for over 40 years. From liquid filling to case packing to palletizing, Massman has solutions for a wide range of automation needs. Massman Companies include Massman Automation, EDL, Ideal Pase, ADCO, and New England Machinery.

Massman Companies prides itself on being family friendly, with our Values focused on Employee Wellness, Community Leadership, and Integrity.

Employee Wellness: Family first. Creating career, personal, and financial wellness for all employees, embodies the Massman Employee Wellness value.

Community Leadership: Lifting communities. Contributing positively where we live with our talents and resources.

Integrity: Honesty always. Doing what is right, not what is easy.