
Senior Mechanical Engineer - Innovation
- Duncan, SC
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Design responsibility for individual components to complete integrated machine systems.
- Partner with customers and sales executives, other mechanical and electrical design engineers, manufacturing personnel and customer service technicians.
- Research and prepare specifications
- Develop and test prototypes
- Process documentation
- Train other engineers and technicians
- Project reporting, tracking and organization
- Lead, facilitate, and manage continuous improvement initiatives
- Other responsibilities as needed.
- Minimum 10 years of mechanical engineering experience with increasing levels of complexity and responsibility.
- Experience in materials, component selection, and general machine shop processes.
- Experience with increasingly complex machine and/or system design using state of the art CAD and analysis tools (SolidWorks, ProE, or equivalent).
- Prioritization: able to prioritize customer needs to develop and maintain productive customer relationships.
- Initiative: proactive, take prompt action to accomplish objectives and achieve goals beyond what is required.
- Ambitious: eager to grow in this role and in the business.
- Dealing with Ambiguity: effectively cope with change; shift gears comfortably; decide and act without having the total picture; comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
- Team Building: Inspire and foster team commitment, spirit, pride and trust; facilitate cooperation and motivate team members to accomplish group goals.
- Business Acumen: define and develop business strategic goals through creativity and innovation while implementing related plans.
- Excellent verbal, written and presentation communication skills with ability to leverage for effective presentations.
- Professional with customer centric focus.
- Goal oriented and driven to become an impactful contributor to the business.
- Excellent organizational and time management skills with strong attention to detail.
- Ability to interface with a variety of team members from different disciplines.
- Demonstrated ability to advance multiple projects concurrently as an individual contributor or as part of a team to develop a machine system or subsystem.
- Demonstrated effective critical thinking, analytical and problem-solving ability.
- Ability to work under pressure with deadlines in a fast-paced, changing environment.
- Responsive and able to work in a dynamic environment and set priorities with minimal supervision.
- Ability to manage and effectively lead change.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite and able to learn new applications without difficulty.
- Master’s degree in related technical field.
- Experience in rapid new product development, Lean development or Agile methods.
- Packaging experience.
- Experience designing and hands on follow through manufacturing, build and test.
- Experience with Power transmission, pneumatics, and complex mechanical mechanism design.
- Knowledge and experience with engineering bills of material (BOM) structure organization and usage.
- Field experience in installation and/or troubleshooting.
- Project management experience.
- High achiever with a positive can-do attitude, who works well in a team environment while realizing both individual and team goals through relationship building.
- Periodic travel required, less than 20%