Mechanical Design Engineer

This position is within the Linear Motion Division of the Automation & Controls Segment, a global team of approximately 1,500 associates generating $400M in revenue across 9 main sites in the United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Europe.

About the role

The Mechanical Design Engineer II develops new products (platform or Customer Lead Opportunity - CLO) that meet performance, cost, and quality requirements. This role also creates clear technical documentation and procedures for reference by other design, manufacturing, or quality engineers.

Responsibilities

• Provide drawings and documentation for moderately complex components and processes.
• Recommend and document solutions for complex components and processes to the engineering manager or project team.
• Use computer-aided design analysis tools to optimize designs efficiently.
• Support existing products through cost reduction, failure analysis, application solutions, and product derivatives.
• Perform MRB dispositioning (Material Review Board).
• Meet Tall Gates and contract deliverables (launch OTD, product and project cost, and quality metrics).
• Deliver designs that meet VOC (Voice of Customer) and VOP (Voice of Process) inputs and requirements.
• Create product and process design documentation leveraging reference designs and best practices to enable design traceability.
• Review existing designs to support selection of alternate designs and components while maintaining original design intent.

Requirements

• 4-year degree (BS) in Mechanical Engineering or a related discipline.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience.
• Ability to perform design calculations.
• Proficiency with computer-aided design tools; SolidWorks and PDM experience desirable.
• Understanding of design requirements, part function, and manufacturing principles.
• Ability to facilitate technical discussions with internal and external customers (application or specification review and VOC).
• Ability to solve moderately complex problems.
• Willingness to travel 5-10% of the time by all forms of transportation.

Skills

• Analytical Thinking: Identifies patterns across data or situations that are not obviously related.
• Specialized Knowledge: Familiarity and experience with DFM (Design for Manufacturing), FEA (Finite Element Analysis), and DFMEA (Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis).
• Communication: Listens to others and creates clarity through verbal and written communications.
• Customer Focus: Clearly articulates customer needs to drive satisfaction; provides excellent service to internal and external customers.
• Decision Making: Makes timely and informed decisions considering facts, constraints, risks, and likely impacts.
• Entrepreneurial Spirit: Actively seeks and recognizes opportunities that help the company grow, improve, and evolve.
• Organizational Effectiveness: Effectively navigates organizational structures and drives momentum to achieve desired outcomes.
• Problem Solving: Methodically defines, investigates, and executes effective solutions.

Physical Demand and Work Environment

• Regularly required to use hands, reach with hands and arms, talk, or hear.
• Frequently required to stand, walk, and sit.
• Works in a moderate noise environment.

Pay

Expected base salary range: $80,000 - $90,000. The salary range reflects base pay compensation for this position and may vary based on factors such as physical worksite location, geographic market, candidate's skill set, experience, education, and internal peer comparisons. Federal export control laws may limit this opportunity to "U.S. Persons," including U.S. citizens, nationals, permanent residents, asylees, and refugees.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
• Spending accounts (HSA, Health Care FSA, and Dependent Care FSA).
• Paid time off and holidays.
• 401k retirement plan with employer matching contributions.
• Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) insurance.
• Paid leaves.
• Tuition assistance.

About the Company

Regal Rexnord is a publicly held global industrial manufacturer with 30,000 associates worldwide. The company provides sustainable solutions that power, transmit, and control motion through electric motors, air moving subsystems, power transmission components, and automation offerings (controls, actuators, drives, and precision motors). Key end markets include factory automation, food & beverage, aerospace, medical, data center, warehouse, alternative energy, residential and commercial buildings, general industrial, construction, metals and mining, and agriculture.

Regal Rexnord operates through three segments: Industrial Powertrain Solutions, Power Efficiency Solutions, and Automation & Motion Control, with facilities worldwide.