Senior Mechanical Engineer - Marine

Overview:

We are seeking a full-time Senior Mechanical Engineer on our Marine product team in our Olathe, KS location. In this role, you will be responsible for providing advanced engineering skills and project planning for mechanical or electromechanical solutions or systems within our Marine product line (including fish finders, chart plotters, sonars, trolling motors, and more). Please submit a portfolio with your application.

Responsibilities:

Essential Functions

1. Able to complete the most difficult tasks as a Master CAD-user including the completion of complex mechanical designs.
2. Knowledge of injection molding, die casting, sheet metal stamping, machining, material requirements, material performance, material limitations, etc.
3. Specify test plans, mock up and test complex mechanical systems with complex performance requirements to validate and verify compliance with design requirements.
4. Manage basic tradeoffs, determine risk mitigation plans, determine project goal/objective feasibility, provide technical input to product development plans/concept documents, and drive process vendors to evaluate complex mechanical designs and understand risk.
5. Lead explorations of new technologies and make estimates on moderately complex mechanical designs including: tooling, part cost, and design time.
6. Knowledge of Industry and Garmin product qualification tests (environmental and others).
7. Provide reliable solutions to a wide range of difficult problems using sound problem-solving techniques and offer process improvements and author new procedures.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications

1. Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering AND a minimum of 5 years relevant experience OR an equivalent combination of education and experience.
2. Demonstrated knowledge and capability to use CAD software (Solidworks and/or Onshape) for completing complex mechanical designs.
3. Product design experience.

Desired Qualifications

1. Electronic packaging design experience.
2. Passion for the outdoors, fishing, diving, boating.
3. Experience with OnShape.