Mechanical Product Development Engineer

Mechanical Product Development Engineer – Document & Mail Automation 

Position Summary 

OPEX Corporation is currently looking for a full time Mechanical Product Development Engineer to work at our World Headquarters in Moorestown, NJ.  This position reports to the Product Development Mechanical Engineering Manager and is focused on the development of automation equipment and processes in the fields of mail processing and document imaging.

Please review the videos and product literature on our opex.com website to learn more about our company, the industries we serve and the solutions we develop.

Responsibilities

The Mechanical Product Development Engineer will play a key role in conceiving of, developing and productizing industry-leading, highly integrated, software controlled electro-mechanical solutions that drive process efficiency and transactional integrity for our customers. 

This role will:

• Ultimately lead the delivery of complex production-level designs for new products and support those new products through production start and initial field adoption
• Collaborate with all engineering disciplines as well as management, manufacturing and service representatives
• Architect new products and product improvements
• Participate in project schedule creation
• Participate in brainstorms of best ideas and solutions
• Lead analytical and empirical design-guidance data mining efforts
• Lead design efforts within and beyond CAD
• Strive to deliver solutions that meet functional, cost and schedule requirements
• Provide guidance to mechanical designers and technicians
• Lead and participate in concept and design reviews
• Develop necessary breadboards and prototypes 
• Lead design-confirmation testing 
• Lead reliability testing
• Provide timely and accurate project updates to management
• Work closely with in-house manufacturing and assembly teams and outside vendors 
• Close projects in a strong manner by ensuring timely delivery of manufacturing documentation, cost data and necessary safety certificates
• Take ownership of tasks from start to finish

Requirements

• BS or MS in Mechanical Engineering
• 5 years of hands-on electro-mechanical product/machine/equipment design engineering experience
• Experience bringing creative and innovative mechanical solutions to and through Production 
• 3 years of Solid Modeling experience (Inventor, Creo/ProEngineer, Solidworks, etc.)
• Injection molded plastic part design experience would be a plus
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated engineering creativity, organizational skill and ability to multi-task
• Hands-on design guidance and design confirmation testing and data acquisition experience
• Mechanical analytical experience (FEA, DOE, Test Plans, Engineering statistical analysis, tolerance analysis, etc.)
• Strong understanding of manufacturing processes and how to design to best leverage them
• Strong team player and comfortable leading small groups of engineers and designers
• Demonstrated ability to own an assignment and see it through to completion
• Skilled in the areas of schedule and cost estimation and adherence
• Comfortable working on cross-functional teams of mechanical, electrical, software and safety engineers and able to collaborate effectively and efficiently
• Engineering project management experience would be a plus
• Experience with designing electro-mechanical products for high volumes (10k per year) would be a plus
• A keen design eye and experience reviewing others’ design work would be a plus
• Design engineering experience in the printing, scanning, copying industries would be a plus
• Ability to travel when necessary (typically less than 2 weeks per year)

Physical/Work Environments

• Employee will primarily be working in an office environment with occasional travel to customer sites (4 days in the office per week)
• Sitting for an extended period of time
• Some walking between facilities
• Employee will frequently lift up to 10 lbs and occasionally lift up to 25 lbs