What are the responsibilities and job description for the Mechanical Engineer position at MtronPTI?
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Job Description
About Us:
Since 1965, MtronPTI has been at the forefront of innovation, crafting top-tier RF and Microwave electronic components. Our products are vital to the communication systems of satellites, UAVs, and other critical technologies in the military, aerospace, and space industries. We pride ourselves on our unwavering commitment to excellence and the highest quality standards. At MtronPTI, collaboration, continuous improvement, and a passion for cutting-edge technology drive our success.
POSITION SUMMARY:
This position is responsible for providing mechanical engineering oversight to a group of electrical design engineers developing new RF and Microwave components and subsystems. Supports project teams in a fast-paced team environment to deliver new products to customers on time, meeting or exceeding all requirements and resulting in profitable products when transitioned to production.
Major Duties
- Apply principles of mechanical engineering and utilize Finite Element Modeling and simulation software to mechanically optimize new military and aerospace products.
- Develop and document mechanical design best practices for new and existing product families.
- Review, optimize, and approve all new mechanical drawings.
- Ensure new products are mechanically designed to meet all applicable regulatory standards (MIL, ANSI, ASTM, etc ).
- Use FEM tools to perform detailed analyses and generate reports to show compliance with customers environmental requirements like vibration, shock, temperature, and pressure.
- Estimate costs of mechanical components utilized in new products, including material and labor of internally machined or fabricated housings/covers in support of quotes for new products.
- Interface with Manufacturing Engineering to develop and optimize new and existing mechanical processes required to support new products.
- Provide technical support to production and purchasing departments to ensure mechanical components for prototypes are procured and delivered on time.
- Participate in required project meetings: Project kick-offs, peer design reviews, schedule-reviews and pre-ship reviews.
- Provide necessary mechanical engineering support during transition of new products to production.
- Support mature products already in production that need design engineering support for improvement or optimization of mechanical components.
- Educate, train, mentor and coach other design engineers, drafters and technicians that have less experience or knowledge in the mechanical engineering field.
- Stay up to date on technology and industry trends and propose new materials and processes to management that can give the company a competitive advantage.
Minimum Qualifications:
Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:
- Must have advanced working knowledge of solid modeling and analysis using SolidWorks.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work well with others to perform a wide variety of tasks in a fast-paced engineering/production environment.
- Desirable: Extensive knowledge of technologies and processes used in CNC machining, fabrication, plating, welding and EDM of aluminum and stainless-steel enclosures.
- Desirable: Experience with MIL-STD and FAA level environmental testing.
- Desirable: Experience and working knowledge Additive Manufacturing
Education:
- BSME or equivalent relevant experience.
