Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

Requirements

• Comfortable with all phases of the product development lifecycle including design, analysis, debug, verification, transfer to manufacturing, and sustainment.
• Understand concepts of design input, design output, requirement traceability, and FMEA risk analysis
• Technical expertise with mechanism design, robotics and medical products
• Design, manufacture, and troubleshooting of electromechanical components and assemblies including brushless DC motors, brakes, encoders and other sensors
• Design, manufacture, and troubleshooting of precision mechanical components including bearings, gears, ball screws and linear actuators
• Component selection and design for reliability and manufacturability
• Mechanical analysis, including statics, dynamics, kinematics, stress, fatigue, thermal, and reliability
• Design, review and document components, structures, and mechanical assemblies in SolidWorks or similar CAD software
• Release designs following good documentation principles and configuration control methods
• Manufacturing process development and creation of assembly instructions
• Proficiency at failure analysis
• Fluency in ASME Y14.5 GD&T and tolerance stack analysis
• Demonstrated knowledge of a wide variety of manufacturing processes
• Capable of using MATLAB to create or modify test scripts and system software
• Experience with Statistical Process Control in a Mass Production environment
• Comfortable operating machine shop, measurement and test equipment
• Minimum Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering. Biomedical or other engineering discipline may be acceptable with appropriate mechanical experience
• Minimum 8 years of experience designing and manufacturing electromechanical products. Work experience in an FDA or other regulated industry preferred.

Responsibilities

• Work in or run cross-functional project teams to design, develop and verify modifications to robotic or other complex mechanisms.
• Investigate and establish root cause of latent and emerging design, manufacturing or material defects
• Develop, design, test, document, and implement solutions for these defects according to corporate standards and departmental operating procedures
• Identify, develop and implement alternate part fabrication methods and sources to reduce hardware cost and/or improve durability of supply chain
• Develop and execute design verification/validation test protocols and document results in test reports
• Provide mechanical engineering support for resolution of field and manufacturing issues
• Support and/or provide leadership to product risk assessments, Corrective and Preventive Actions, and quality/regulatory audits as required
• Provide advice, mentoring, coaching and guidance to advance the technical and business expertise of colleagues
• Identify and implement best practices between teams and engineering departments
• Establish individual and team goals consistent with overall project goals.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Mechanical Engineering
• Experience providing inputs to regulatory agency approval including UL, CE and FDA
• Excel in a fast paced, high transaction, mass-production environment
• Utilize deep technical knowledge and broad expertise to achieve company goals in creative and effective ways
• Some experience leading departmental and cross-functional projects and strategic initiatives from concept through completion
• Capacity to supervise multiple complex projects
• Ability to communicate effectively (written, oral) across all levels and organizations
• Ability to supervise and mentor other engineers
• Demonstrated excitement to learn and quickly examine tough technical problems
• Passion for creating robust, reliable products with an excellent commitment to quality
• Sense of shared responsibility and reward