Designer III

Location: Painted Post, NY (100% onsite; non‑local candidates must be willing to relocate at their own expense).

Responsibilities

• Support the development of custom equipment, fixtures, tooling, prototypes, and manufacturing systems.
• Transform conceptual designs and engineering direction into complete, manufacturable mechanical designs ready for procurement, fabrication, assembly, and deployment.
• Perform equipment assembly, fitting, troubleshooting, vendor interaction, and support procurement activities.
• Develop complete mechanical designs from sketches, concepts, engineering direction, and preliminary layouts.
• Create detailed 3D models, assemblies, manufacturing drawings, fabrication drawings, and assembly documentation using SolidWorks.
• Generate and maintain bills of material (BOMs), part specifications, and engineering documentation within SolidWorks PDM.
• Select and specify purchased components, standard hardware, and commercial‑off‑the‑shelf equipment appropriate for project requirements.
• Work closely with internal supply chain, procurement, and manufacturing personnel to source and procure components and equipment.
• Interface directly with external suppliers and vendors to identify, specify, quote, and procure mechanical components, assemblies, and fabricated equipment.
• Apply sound mechanical design principles including appropriate tolerance schemes, constraint methods, fit selection, manufacturability, maintainability, and assembly considerations.
• Produce manufacturing‑ready documentation suitable for internal shops, external fabricators, and equipment vendors.
• Support prototype construction, assembly, fitting, debugging, troubleshooting, and design refinement activities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant mechanical engineering experience.
• Proficiency with SolidWorks.

Pay

Pay Range: $50 – $53 per hour, depending on experience.
Contract: 1 year with possible extension and/or conversion.

Benefits

• Referral bonus for any candidate hired.