Mechanical Design Engineer

OVERVIEW

This position is responsible for creating drawings, specifications and performing calculations to design precision equipment to meet the customers’ expectations, timelines and requirements in the food processing industry. To be considered for this role, you must have experience in the manufacturing industry in addition to a solid understanding of industrial machining and metal fabrication & welding practices.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Designing a complete project, system, component, and/or individual piece of custom equipment from concept thru manufacturing including assembly, testing and making modifications to the design.
• Ability to reverse engineer parts or new parts as replacement for existing equipment and newly designed equipment.
• Generate bill of materials and drawings for manufacturing.
• Continuous improvement mindset and openness to design idea modifications to meet customer requests.
• Provide technical support to the specifications of customer requests.
• Work closely with manufacturing, suppliers, and engineering colleagues throughout a project.
• Investigate and address quality control and manufacturing concerns with designs.
• Collaborate with sales, manufacturing and leadership to improve product quality and reduce costs.
• Manage inventory and availability of purchased parts and raw materials for assigned design projects.
• Research, design, evaluate, assist in the assembly, and testing of equipment and systems to ensure it meets customer requirements.
• Monitor assigned design projects from concept to completion assisting as needed to ensure delivery timelines.
• Design engineering utilizing SolidWorks to generate concept drawings, approval drawings, solid models, and a complete set of part and assembly drawings for fabrication and production.
• Ability to write technical manuals, create part lists, exploded views, assembly directions and renderings.
• Present design projects to peers or other Stone personnel for design review.
• Collaborate with machining, fabrication and assembly in troubleshooting and innovating for future projects.
• Evaluate equipment and manufacturing processes to ensure compliance with food safety standards.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent experience in an equipment manufacturing environment.
• Exceptional organizational and time-management abilities, with attention to detail.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills including strong listening skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects of all sizes simultaneously and work independently.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
• Ability to adapt to a fast-paced and evolving work environment.