
Mechanical Design Engineer
- Huntsville, AL
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Lead mechanical design and manufacturing activities on assigned projects and may require leading a cross-functional team including managing design partners as needed.
- Understand the Scope of work, estimate efforts needed, support customers to generate a comprehensive Statement of Work with expected deliverables, timeline and acceptance criteria.
- Analyze project requests, proposals, SOW's and other Engineering data to develop, evaluate, modify or design a mechanical solution in conformance to customers requirements.
- Strong collaboration skills with other internal and external team members such as industrial, manufacturing, electrical, structural, thermal, acoustic and system engineering,
- Perform VAVE (Value Analysis Value Engineering) to cost down current designs and improve manufacturability without compromising functional design intent.
- Work with the manufacturing lead on assigned projects to ensure DFX (Manufacturability, Assembly, Cost) is an integral part of the design.
- Deliver complete and accurate designs, documentation and BOMs for fabrication, assembly and installation that meet project requirements and complies with applicable US and international codes and standards.
- Responsible for the quality of design & documentation for all supporting project team members.
- Provide technical guidance to manufacturing teams in releasing new designs to production.
- Interface with supply chain in taking cost out of existing designs by recommending alternate sources or manufacturing processes without compromising customer design intent.
- Travel to customer sites to support customer designers to provide immediate feedback on their designs through dynamic interaction with their product development teams
- Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering
- Minimum of 2-4 years of relevant electromechanical product design and development, manufacturing and DFx engineering experience.
- Robust experience in sheet metal and frame fabrication, machining and welding.
- Ability to perform FEA analysis, seismic, thermal and structural primarily.
- Help facilitate taking product designs through agency certification.
- Excellent communication skills to develop and maintain proactive customer interaction.
- Proficiency in Solidworks or CREO.
- Experienced user of PowerPoint, Word, Excel and Project tools.