Exhibit Engineer

Exhibit Engineers are the primary contributors responsible for exhibit design and production. In this role, you will ensure the functionality, reliability, safety, efficiency, and cost effectiveness of each exhibit. Important to this position is the emphasis on the design and building of interactive exhibits with complex mechanical, electrical, and technical systems within design, budget, and schedule to fulfill the needs of the project. In addition to new exhibit design and production, you will have an active role in the maintenance and improvement of existing exhibits, design practices, and documentation standards.

Responsibilities

Execution:

• Consistently deliver high-quality exhibit engineering across a number of projects under the direction of project leadership.
• Engineer exhibit designs that fit into budget and schedule, meeting regular milestones.
• Produce complete sets of design documentation including: part and assembly drawings, bills of materials, electronics and wiring schematics, maintenance manual pages and assembly instructions.
• Provide support to Production Management and project teams as needed in regards to purchasing efforts, including occasional management of subcontractor and vendor relationships.
• Collaborate with design and production staff to find efficient ways to create exhibits.
• Travel to and participate in off-site installations, maintenance trips, and de-installations up to 25%.
• Consistently deliver high-quality exhibit engineering across a number of projects with minimum supervision.
• Facilitate technical aspects of off-site installations, maintenance trips, and de-installations.
• Provide support as needed to Project Management with regards to off-site logistics and client relations.
• Solutions/Idea Generation: Regularly implement a wide variety of practical and innovative engineering strategies. Work to find creative ways to bring new and appropriate technologies into our current system.
  
  

Facilities Work/Institutional Support

• Contribute to general operations, including design, project management and shop.
• Provide technical advice to help production staff order and build exhibits; promote quality, efficiency, and decreasing costs.
• Flexibility: Adapt to project constraints with proactive solutions. Work comfortably and productively on a range of projects from rough, in-house prototypes to highly-finished, turn-key client projects.
• Judgment: Make timely exhibit engineering decisions. Show strong creative discernment and good discipline around choice of forms, materials, and processes.
• Other duties as assigned
  
  

Qualifications

• 5 years of advanced shop knowledge: wood, metal, and plastic fabrication; prototyping and fabrication of exhibits using appropriate production methods; uphold safety standards.
• 5 years of advanced experience with Autodesk Inventor essential, plus working knowledge of AutoCAD, MS Office 365.
• Bachelor’s Degree and/or additional education required.
• Demonstrated ability to work on multiple projects and problems simultaneously with minimal supervision.
• Talent for collaboration and effective teamwork and demonstrated ability to work with people at all levels of an organization.
• Ability to effectively communicate ideas and concepts through hand sketching, basic drawing skills preferred.
• Comfortable taking direction and mentoring from senior shop staff, senior engineers, and project leadership.
• Ability to adhere to budgets and timelines for individual exhibits and projects, and to proactively communicate expected variances.