Mechanical Design Engineer (R&D Engineer)

Mechanical Design Engineer (R&D Engineer)

Position Summary, Responsibilities and Expectations:

• Provide mechanical design and own decision making to deliver our next generation of products to timely launch schedules, according to product- and marketing requirements
• Provide creative solutions for simple- to complex engineering and schedule items
• Collaborate extensively with electrical- and thermal engineers, product managers, designers, manufacturing and other internal- or external (suppliers) group to ensure successful development and launch of new products
• Maintain regular and consistent communication across teams and reporting of project status, risks, and change control as required
• Manage issue troubleshooting and resolution for the mechanical portion component programs
• Prioritize deliverables, tasks, and issues; manage change requests against scheduling and resource constraints
• Support DVT, OOBE, and Regulatory team efforts during the product development cycle
• Provide inputs for the mechanical portion of component program development budget and schedule
• Proactively assist with cost reduction programs
• Proactively assist in product testing and validation
• Create/Review EE CAD, BOM, DFM inputs as required
• Support exit meetings, core team meetings, escalation meetings etc.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Proficiency in engineering analysis, development and documentation
• Direct experience in mechanical construction design, including sheet metal and polymer injection molding design
• Advanced 3D CAD skills (Solidworks or similar)
• Advanced assembly drawing skills
• Good knowledge of DFM
• Ability to analyse and interpret options for critical design elements and features and determine optimum selection
• Ability to validate designs, both novel and existing
• Ability to develop patentable ideas
• Excellent attention to detail in both design and change management
• Excellent prioritization, problem solving and decision making skills and ability to work with multiple parallel project
• Excellent communication and reporting skills
• Experience with injection molding design
• Good knowledge of thermodynamics and heat transfer
• Good knowledge of polymer material science

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or relevant experience
• 3+ Years industry experience
• PDM/PLM knowledge is a plus
• Solidworks CSWA/CSWP certificate is a plus
• Solidworks Simulation (FEM) experience is a plus
• Phyton programming skills is a plus
• Material science experience is a plus
• Project management experience is a plus
• Being a PC/Gaming enthusiast is a plus