Mechanical Engineering Supervisor

Build Your Career as an Mechanical Engineering Supervisor in a Growing Company

At ProMach, we’re looking for people who want to shine. You’ll have opportunities to take your career in the direction you desire. You can be creative. Strategic. Persuasive. Influential. A mechanical marvel. A customer service authority. Meticulous. A closer. A futurist.

You’ll be challenged and rewarded. Make friends and have fun. Improve our customers’ packaging performance and efficiency every day. Help build the future of packaging automation. We’re proud of that and hope you will be too.

Do we have your attention? Keep reading.

Benchmark Automation is seeking a Mechanical Engineering Supervisor to lead a team of Mechanical Engineers who design packaging machinery and product handling equipment. The candidate must perform the functions of a Senior Mechanical Engineer as well as provide leadership for the team

In this role you will be responsible for:

• Provide design engineering leadership support and oversight for all engineering projects.
• Leading the team to timeliness and accuracy of engineering releases that enable manufacturing to complete orders in an orderly and timely manner.
• Monitor designs for cost verses budget, quality design, and compliance with applicable standards and processes.
• Ensuring mechanical engineering team commitments to Controls Engineering, Project Management, Sales, Aftermarket, and Manufacturing departments are met as expected.
• Ensuring that project documentation, e.g. project reports, drawings, and timesheets are regularly reported, correct, and complete.
• Leading research and development projects on occasion that produce new designs, products and processes.
• Assign projects to the mechanical engineering team as appropriate based on skill levels and scheduling constraints.
• Establish standards for drawings, component selection, and ensure that members of the team follow them.
• Establish training plans for individuals in the team.
• Perform annual performance reviews for members of the team.
• Participate in applications reviews to ensure viability of concepts during the proposal phase.
• Assist in startup and debug as required both at Benchmark and at the client facility.
• Ensure the operator manuals are completed in a timely manner.
• Travel up to 25%.

Who we are looking for.

• A Bachelor of Engineering Degree or equivalent from a four-year college or equivalent industry experience.
• Experience with food handling machinery, sanitary design, and USDA compliance.
• A minimum of 10 years of experience conceiving, designing, and developing mechanical engineering solutions in an OEM environment.
• Leadership experience or proven leadership qualities.
• Experience with machine design using 3D CAD, preferably SolidWorks.
• Experience with linkages, cams, rotary and linear indexing mechanisms, servo motion, VFD motors, gearboxes, pneumatic and electric actuators.
• Experience integrating multiple machines to create small to complex packaging systems.
• Capable with computer software applications including MS Office
• Experience with OEM BOM release processes and engineering IP management.

• Should be creative and able to discuss complex machinery concepts without assistance.
• Should have effective communication skills. The candidate must be able to write reports and e-mail correspondence with good grammar. The candidate must be able to communicate technical information with a professional attitude.
• Should have a good understanding of manufacturing practices.
• Should be cooperative and willing to work as a coach, and a team player.
• Should self-directed and resourceful, detail oriented and able to manage multiple priorities.
• Should be confident with the ability to work under pressure.

• Should be flexible to accept assignments in support of overall site goals.

• Should add value to brainstorming sessions on technical problems.

What’s in it for you?

There's no monopoly on good ideas or limits to how far you can advance with our team. We offer an open, communicative environment that fosters individual initiative. We pride ourselves in being a company where people choose to build a career.

In addition to growth opportunities, as a ProMach employee, you receive more than just a paycheck. Total compensation includes your salary, comprehensive medical/dental programs, as well as life insurance, a generous paid time off program, and a retirement savings plan with a company match. And because we understand the importance of feeling protected, there is no waiting period for benefits – you are eligible on your first day of employment!

Pro Mach, Inc.

We have been named to the Inc. 5,000 list of fastest growing private companies in the U.S. seven times. We continue to introduce innovative products, enter new markets, expand our global presence, and actively acquire new capabilities.

We have the rewards, opportunities, and the market strengths of a large organization combined with the entrepreneurial culture of a small, fast-paced company. You will enjoy the benefits of working with a growing company that competes globally with the personal touch and feel of a smaller company where you can make an impact every day.

Benchmark

Benchmark designs and manufactures high-performance, low-maintenance, easy-to-operate product handling systems for food and bakery manufacturers, including distribution systems, automatic cartoner infeeds, shuttle and disk feeders, stackers, mergers, tray loaders, and slug loaders. Benchmark also manufactures the Southern Packaging line of intermittent motion horizontal form fill seal pouch packaging systems. Benchmark is a product brand of ProMach, a global leader in packaging line solutions. As part of the ProMach Product Handling business line, Benchmark helps our packaging customers protect and grow the reputation and trust of their consumers. ProMach is a family of best-in-class packaging solution brands serving manufacturers of all sizes and geographies in the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, personal care, and household and industrial goods industries. ProMach brands operate across the entire packaging spectrum: filling and capping, flexibles, pharma, product handling, labeling and coding, and end of line. ProMach is headquartered near Cincinnati, Ohio, with manufacturing facilities and offices throughout North America, Europe, South America, and Asia.

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ProMach is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Pro Mach uses E-Verify to verify employment eligibility of all new hires to work in the United States. Pro Mach is a drug-free workplace.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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