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Product Engineer

Blair Image Elements
Altoona, PA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/2/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/1/2025
Are you a mechanical design expert looking to make an impact in a collaborative environment? Do you thrive on leading projects and guiding a talented team toward success? If you're ready to take on a key technical role in a growing company, we invite you to consider joining Blair Image Elements as a Product Engineer.

At Blair Image Elements, we are committed to delivering high-quality signage and branding solutions to regional, national, and international clients. We're searching for a passionate and knowledgeable Product Engineer to be the primary technical contact for a wide range of mechanical design projects.

Blair Image Elements is a leading provider of signage and branding solutions, delivering comprehensive services to well-known regional, national, and international clients across a diverse range of markets and industries.

We Build Brands. You Build Your Career.

What You'll Be Doing

In this role, you will lead the development of complete design packages, ensuring seamless transitions from customer orders through to manufacturing and installation. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

  • Creating and managing project timelines and budgets, while serving as the technical expert during cross-functional collaborations.
  • Developing comprehensive design packages that include both original designs and adaptations of existing standards, and utilizing 2D and 3D CAD software to produce detailed shop drawings and installation instructions.
  • Providing training and troubleshooting support for technical issues, both in-house and on-site with customers.
  • Ensuring all engineered products conform to UL, state, and national code requirements, while maintaining an up-to-date departmental library of regulatory standards.
  • Crafting detailed work instructions and troubleshooting documentation to support production processes.
  • Providing guidance to a talented team of engineers, CAD technicians, and engineering interns, guiding them to produce efficient and cost-effective designs.
  • Conducting performance reviews, participating in the hiring process, and making decisions regarding departmental staffing.
  • Analyzing cost reduction ideas and ensuring manufacturability during the design phase.

What We're Looking For

To succeed in this role, you should have:

  • A Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or Applied Sciences.
  • 8 to 15 years of experience in mechanical design, with proficiency in classical and numerical methods for solving engineering challenges.
  • Expertise in mechanical drawing, design, geometric tolerancing, and familiarity with CAD and Inventor.
  • Experience with FEA stress analysis, particularly in evaluating fatigue, shock, vibration, and wind load.
  • Knowledge of general manufacturing methods and processes, including thermoformed plastics, aluminum, and steel fabrication.
  • Knowledge of structural steel and aluminum welding, along with sheet metal bending experience.

Benefits and Culture

At Blair Image Elements, we offer a comprehensive benefits package to support the well-being and financial security of our team. Employees enjoy Health, Dental, Vision, and Prescription Medicine Insurance, along with the option to participate in a Flexible Spending Account (FSA). We provide a Retirement Plan to help secure your future, and offer free life insurance for all employees, with the opportunity to add additional coverage at group rates.

Our paid time off (PTO) policy allows up to 5 weeks of vacation annually, depending on your length of service, and we also offer a Gainsharing Program with quarterly bonuses based on company performance and your tenure. For those welcoming a new addition to their family, we provide 4 weeks of paid parental leave.

We support your continued education through our Tuition Reimbursement program and reward employee milestones with Anniversary Bonuses. With our Pay on Demand option through a payroll app, you can access your wages before payday. Employees also have access to a Loan Program through a local Credit Union and receive free Company Logo Uniforms and Products annually, along with a Company-funded protective footwear program.

At Blair, we also cultivate a supportive company culture. Flexible work schedules promote a healthier work-life balance, and we host annual events like an Employee Picnic and Holiday Party to foster camaraderie. Our Blair Cares committee, run by employees, raises funds to assist fellow team members in need. We also participate in community sponsorship and donation programs and offer the Blair Scholarship to help further education.

Check us out at www.blairimage.com

Blair Image Elements is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Unless explicitly stated, any compensation listed for this position is automatically generated by affiliated websites such as Indeed.com or similar platforms and may not accurately reflect the actual salary range for this role.

Drugs and Alcohol - We have the following polices in place: Pre-Employment, Post-Accident, Reasonable Suspicion and CDL Driver Testing as well as Random Screening.

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