Senior/Principal Mechanical Design Engineer & GD&T Leader

SilencerCo, LLC; Riverton (UT); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Zev Technologies in Utah seeks an experienced Senior/Principal Design Engineer to lead mechanical design efforts and mentor the team. This hands-on leader will bridge Engineering, Quality, Operations, Procurement, and Manufacturing while building durable processes and documentation.

The role emphasizes moving away from reactive quality issues toward a proactive culture of continuous improvement, with strong emphasis on GD&T, supplier collaboration, and go/no-go inspection gauges.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field, or equivalent hands-on experience.
• 8+ years mechanical design experience for Senior level, or 12+ years for Principal level, with a demonstrated track record in mechanism design.
• Deep, demonstrated expertise in GD&T (ASME Y14.5), with the ability to teach and mentor others in its application and interpretation.
• Experience designing go/no-go and functional inspection gaging.
• Strong CAD design and drawing skills; SolidWorks strongly preferred.
• Direct, hands-on experience sourcing, vetting, and managing suppliers and contract manufacturers.
• Demonstrated experience working cross-functionally with Quality, Operations, Procurement, and Manufacturing.
• Comfortable coaching and mentoring other engineers - whether or not the role carries formal management responsibility.
• Experience prioritizing engineering work against a product roadmap, and partnering with Product/Project Management on planning, timelines, and resourcing.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior technical resource and mentor for the design engineering team, strengthening the team's design judgment, GD&T fluency, and design-for-manufacturability thinking.
• Provide day-to-day technical guidance and help unblock the team on complex mechanism design, tolerancing, and manufacturability problems.
• Help the team focus on and complete its highest-priority work; coach engineers through problems rather than simply solving them personally.
• Support skill development and growth conversations for team members, in partnership with engineering leadership.
• Prioritize the team's tasks and projects based on the product roadmap and business priorities.
• Partner with Product and Project Management to support planning, timelines, and resourcing for the roadmap.
• Translate roadmap priorities into actionable, sequenced engineering plans and adjust focus as priorities shift.
• Design, document, and implement engineering processes and standards where they don't yet exist.
• Lead the shift from reactive firefighting to proactive continuous improvement with root-cause analysis and lessons-learned reviews.
• Build and maintain GD&T standards, drawing templates, and design documentation to raise baseline skill level.
• Track and drive measurable improvement in metrics like first-pass drawing quality and supplier acceptance.

Skills

Mechanism design

Mentoring engineers

Cross-functional collaboration

Planning & roadmap alignment

Go/no-go inspection understanding

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field

Tools

SolidWorks

ASME Y14.5 GD&T knowledge

Job description

Zev Technologies in Utah seeks an experienced Senior/Principal Design Engineer to lead mechanical design efforts and mentor the team. This hands-on leader will bridge Engineering, Quality, Operations, Procurement, and Manufacturing while building durable processes and documentation.

The role emphasizes moving away from reactive quality issues toward a proactive culture of continuous improvement, with strong emphasis on GD&T, supplier collaboration, and go/no-go inspection gauges.