What are the responsibilities and job description for the Mechanical Engineer V position at SPECTRAFORCE?
Title: Mechanical Engineer V
Location: North Reading, MA
Duration: 12 months
Job Description:
We are seeking a talented and motivated Product Development Engineer with a proven track record of implementing best in class processes within a complex design and manufacturing environment. This role will report to the Manager of Product Development and is an integral member of the Design Engineering Services team. You will be responsible for applying design for X (DFx) principles during new product introduction (NPI) of a wide range of products from initial concept to beta. You will work to integrate customer scaling requirements for safety, manufacturability, deployability, and supportability into new product designs. Additionally, you will work cross-functionally to develop best in class DFx feedback and services; guide product lifecycle changes, lead bill of material (BOM) strategy, lead technology feasibility and improvement projects, and drive to technical root cause utilizing advanced problem solving. The successful candidate will have extensive experience in both design and manufacturing combined with capability of making wide-ranging business decisions on behalf of the organization.
Key job responsibilities:
- Actively support and foster a culture of inclusion.
- Provide design for X guidance/feedback on electromechanical designs.
- Guide best practices on manufacturing tolerances using GD&T.
- Launch prototype tooling with accelerated schedules and assess project risk.
- Leverage knowledge of multiple production processes to identify risk to programs and provide mitigation strategies.
- Analyze new products dimensional data.
- Drive internal and external DFMEA reviews.
- Solve technical problems across a broad set of design and manufacturing commodities.
- Mentor team members and design engineers.
- Propose design changes that will enhance product manufacturability and testability.
- Evaluate and approve Design Engineering Changes Orders (DECOs) and Engineering Change Orders (ECOs)
- Implement best practices for engineering standards (ex. IPC-620 WHMA Class II)
- Analyze NPI failures to identify root cause and drive improvements through future DFx cycles.
- Effectively write White Papers (WP) and Manufacturing Concept Papers (MCP) to inform and influence teams and stakeholders
- Take ownership to identify issues/problems and drives them to completion with little oversight
- High level of attention to detail but flexibility to enable to business to move at a high velocity.
- Navigate projects consisting of a high level of ambiguity and provide guidance to multiple partners.
- Up to 30% travel required (domestic and international).
Required Skills:
- BSc/MSc in Aerospace, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Robotics, or equivalent
- Experience designing mechanical assemblies for electronics
- Experience with rapid prototype and scaling for production
- Experience with production tooling
- Experience in project management
- Strong communication and writing skills Experience in developing functional specifications, design verification plans and functional test procedures
- 9 years of relevant industry experience in NPI with strong knowledge of manufacturing and scaling
- Bachelors degree in an engineering discipline, Mechanical, Systems, Robotics, Electrical, Manufacturing or suitable experience.
- Proficient in 3D modeling software (ex: Solidworks)
Preferred Skills:
- Dassault 3DExperence Enovia for PLM
- Dassault 3DExperiene Catia for 3D modeling and 2D drafting
- Thermal simulation analysis using ANSYS IcePak and/or Siemens Star CCM
- Mechanical stack-up analysis
- Structural Load Analysis
- Use of engineering project management software such as JIRA, Confluence, or other Agile tools
