Senior Mechanical Engineer

Talent Finders, LLC; Newberg (OR); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Talent Finders, LLC seeks a Senior Design Engineer III to lead the development of highly complex electro-mechanical and EM systems for global manufacturing, with a focus on precision mechanisms and reliability. This senior IC role requires mentoring juniors, driving design from concept through release, and collaborating across functions to ensure safe, robust product launches.

The ideal candidate has hands-on testing, DFMEA experience, and strong CAD skills (Inventor/SolidWorks), plus a track

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or higher with relevant design experience.
• 8–10 years of related design experience in electro-mechanical systems.
• Experience leading large projects and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead design projects from concept to launch with strong documentation.
• Model concepts and detailed designs using CAD (Inventor/SolidWorks).
• Translate customer requirements into formal specifications and drawings.
• Collaborate with cross-functional PDT to optimize cost and lead times.
• Perform risk assessment and DFMEA activities for new products.

Skills

Tight tolerance design

Gears & bearings

Motor design

CAD: Inventor/ SolidWorks

FEM/FEA

Root cause analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

Syteline

Sage ERP

Intuitive ERP

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 & Electro-Magnetic systems for use in global applications in the industrial and high tech space.. 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.