Senior Mechanical Design Engineer Job Description
Senior mechanical design engineer
provides engineering & technical support to Production through the mechanical assembly and testing process, ensuring quality control.
Senior Mechanical Design Engineer Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Thermal and mechanical modeling and testing of components
Lead the design, development, testing, and analysis of advanced technology gas turbine
In-depth knowledge of the Product Design, Photometric/Thermal/Vibration/IP Testing, Configuration / EC / Submittals / ETO Management, VEA Cost Reduction, and Project Management, team-based product development, team management and project management
Identify opportunities to improve Life Cycle costs of Freestyle equipment through analysis of current state
Custom automated and semi-automated machines, fixtures, and tools to support everything from early prototype builds to mass production
Hands-on build, test, debug of mechanisms and machines
This position serves as a mentor for mechanical design engineers
As required, direct and monitor the activities of less experienced mechanical design engineers, as required by the departmental manager
Drive selection and qualification of critical suppliers, lead team towards suppliers with strong capabilities in delivering high cosmetic quality parts
Provide leadership in DFA/DFM to product development teams
Senior Mechanical Design Engineer Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: FAA, EASA, PMP, B.S, GD&T, MRB, NEMA, IC, UL, CSSBB
Education for Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the senior mechanical design engineer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Engineering, Science, Design, Education, Technical, Aerospace Engineering, Physics, Mechatronics, Mathematics
Skills for Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
Desired skills for senior mechanical design engineer include:
Materials
Testing
Appropriate technical standards
Mechanical technical principles
Theories and concepts
BOCA
Excel
Machining
Motors
NFPA and OSHA
Desired experience for senior mechanical design engineer includes:
10+ years of combined career experience as an engineering project leader and hands-on mechanical design engineer of electromechanical systems for factory automation
Tooling and/or equipment design exp
Automotive, Aerospace, or heavy equipment industry experience preferred
FEA analysis exp
Machine shop and fabrication exp
GD&T Exp
Senior Mechanical Design Engineer Examples
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Senior Mechanical Design Engineer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is looking to fill the role of senior mechanical design engineer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for senior mechanical design engineer
- Perform CAE simulation of structural deflections, stresses, vibrations/shock/drop & thermal engineering
- Provide other engineering support as requested by Manager
- Prepare and review of design basisdocument for both nuclear and conventional systems of the nuclear power station design specification, over-pressure protection reports and design reports, BOMs, SCL
- Supervision of an engineering group that provides mechanical design support of existing and new products
- Design of new products and components for including plastic injection molded parts, die castings, investment castings, stampings, machines components, etc
- Work collaboratively with manufacturing to ensure new designs are feasible from a manufacturing standpoint
- Continuation engineering support for Wireless product line
- Create the mechanical design of Misfit consumer products
- Coordinates work primarily across project team(s), related groups, or within the department
- Demonstrates deep/advanced knowledge of specialized discipline and methods, and applicability to specialized product needs to support customer, operational policies and processes, and product use to translate needs into feasible technical design requirements and recommendations
Qualifications for senior mechanical design engineer
- CATIA Exp
- Has effectively led multiple products through the product development lifecycle (ideation à market) and understands how to manage to critical path so that the most efficient time to market is realized
- Understands mechanical structures and how they are joined in high volume production
- Demonstrated strong
- Knowledge of aerodynamics
- Advanced degree, MSME or MBA
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Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a senior mechanical design engineer. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for senior mechanical design engineer
- Responsible to meet Bose (and other customer’s) internal testing requirements (environmental tests, mechanical tests, EMC, ESD, ) and agency requirements (UL, FCC, CSA)
- Develops complex test protocols
- May assist with systems architecture development at the sub-system level
- Performs large or complex portions of projects where responsibility includes definition, completion, technical quality, and securing consistency across assigned areas
- Provides frequent written and oral presentations, status reports, and updates,, adapting and developing appropriate formats, presentations and content for a variety of audiences
- Provides technical leadership, trains, mentors, and takes initiative to assist junior staff and others
- Develops engineering/product concepts that are innovative, high-quality, cost-appropriate, and satisfy all stakeholder's (customer, manufacturing, material, ) needs and requirements throughout the full Product Development cycle
- Leading efforts to create or update layout drawings, fabrication drawings and engineering change orders
- Giving design review presentations and perform some fundamental types of analysis
- Drawing checks
Qualifications for senior mechanical design engineer
- Ability to work independently with limited direction, in a team environment across functional and organizational boundaries is required
- Strong mechanical design and analysis skills - The ability to develop and utilize free body diagrams, 3D CAD models, FMEA’s (failure modes & effects analysis), GD&T (geometric dimensioning & tolerancing), tolerance analysis, statistical analysis are required
- Advanced degree, MSME, MSMET or MBA
- Experience with electronics
- Must have a minimum tenure of 12 months in current role prior to applying for positions
- Must notify both immediate supervisor and local HR Manager of interest in posted position before an offer to interview will be extended
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Senior Mechanical Design Engineer Job Description
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of senior mechanical design engineer. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for senior mechanical design engineer
- Serve as a mentor to growing engineers, assist them with mastering DFSS principals as applied to the design, testing, and evaluation of complex mechanical systems
- Reviewing analysis reports
- Supporting fabrication engineering liaison
- Work closely with Engineering and Operations to ensure that existing outdoor lighting luminaries are adequately designed for manufacturing
- The responsibilities will include cost, material, manufacturing process analysis, identification and evaluation of alternatives, compliance, and tooling development
- Will be involved in the product development process before and after product introduction
- Acts as part of the process development work stream for Codman project teams
- In conjunction with R&D and Product management engineers develops equipment solutions for the processing of micro-catheters, stent systems, embolic coils and other medical devices
- Acts as liaison to vendors in regards to sourcing, developing and timely completion of tooling, fixtures and advanced assembly equipment
- Working from schematics, sketches and verbal instructions develops proposals and concepts for the efficient and robust production of small dimensional medical devices
Qualifications for senior mechanical design engineer
- Have 5 years’ experience designing electronic enclosures from concept through production
- Proficient in Solidworks (Modeling, Routing, Simulation, EPDM)
- Experience managing electrical/electronic enclosure/packaging vendors
- Experience with outdoor metal and plastic electronic enclosures
- Proficient with heat-load management analysis
- Proficient with electric wire harness design and routing
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Senior Mechanical Design Engineer Job Description
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of senior mechanical design engineer. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for senior mechanical design engineer
- Conduct economic studies and prepare (or lead the preparation of) specifications, proposals for contracts, licensing & safety documents, – this may also involve obtaining required approvals
- Quickly get up to speed with new technologies and products
- Set near and long term technology goals for our products
- Provide direction and mentorship for peers and colleagues
- Partner with a cross-functional team
- Develop strategy and create focus for a specific technology area
- Leverage a broad technical expertise
- Proactively identify and close knowledge gaps within the Hot Brewer technology area
- Serve as a primary technical interface with suppliers and partners to manage product sustainment related to the thermal or fluid mechanics subsystems
- Support and/or drive continuous improvement
Qualifications for senior mechanical design engineer
- In depth knowledge of UL, IC and NEMA packaging standards and achieving certification
- Basic understanding of DFX best practices
- Have a Masters in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
- Experience designing electrical/electronic industrial panels
- In depth knowledge of UL 1741
- Proficiency with surface modeling
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Senior Mechanical Design Engineer Job Description
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Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of senior mechanical design engineer. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for senior mechanical design engineer
- Participate in departmental initiatives to improve tools and processes (Model Based Enterprise, Guide files)
- Dynamic and thermal performance analysis for magnetics designs
- Direct technical interface for customers
- Joint development projects with precision assembly group
- Cross-functional collaboration with prototype build group and production group
- Design visualization efforts with 3D CAD models and essential component and assembly details to explore multiple design options
- Developing engineering design concepts for components and electromechanical assemblies that have stringent requirements for size, precision, reliability and cost
- Performing simple analytical modeling, simulation and analysis at parts /sub system and product levels
- Performing high level of tolerance stack up calculations and use Geomantic Dimensioning and Tolerancing
- Developing product, component test and purchase specifications
Qualifications for senior mechanical design engineer
- Experience packaging batteries
- Preferred 2 years of design or related experience
- Must have the ability to work with and/or assemble small objects and component parts
- Must be able to analyze and resolve complex product design issues of a broad scope using independent judgment
- Excellent documentation skills (Specifications, Test Plans, Test Reports)
- Experience with Matlab or Mathcad and/or M.S