Principal Mechanical Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Plan, conceptualize, and create mechanical designs for manufacturing processes, piece-parts, BOM, automation equipment, including scope development, prototyping, and fabrication.
• Ensure deliverables, maintain safe machine design standards, and meet regulatory compliance requirements
• Work closely with process development engineers to define design specs/limits to enable robust and reliable manufacturing process
• Interface with equipment and process engineering teams to implement changes or improvement to the product designs and to facilitate transfer of designs to production
• Create and maintain control drawings for electrodes and cells; maintain SolidWorks PDM Database; Perform detailed documentation to track project development and design process
• Support pilot and production of final product by troubleshooting process and component problems

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's/Master’s degree in mechanical engineering or in a related field
• 5 years of experience working in Engineering and Production Environment
• Fluent in mechanical design and documentation using SolidWorks 3D design tools. Experience with additional CAD tools is a plus.
• Experience in Numerical Techniques (CFD, FEA etc) for stress, thermal and fluid dynamical analysis is an added advantage
• Hands on and problem-solving experience with a variety of commercial and/or industrial automation projects and has experience designing mechanical systems and products
• Creative problem-solving and managing measured risk
• Experience using basic machine shop tools, mill, band saw, drill press, etc.
• Strong technical and problem-solving skills and reasoning ability
• Ability to communicate effectively and clearly
• Experience managing formal engineering release process using PLM systems such as TeamCenter or Arena.  
• Design Automation experience using DriveWorks automation.