Mechanical Engineer 3

Major Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the global engineering team, hydraulic component suppliers and procurement professionals to identify and deliver product value on business investments.
• Maintain the department’s sustainable value creation dashboard, summarize large data sets and extract business opportunities to execute.
• Technical communications and ability to share results in leadership presentations are necessary.
• Serve as product design engineering lead for purchased finished, supplier designed component new product introduction projects.
• Leverage hydraulics component engineering processes, technical and commercial competencies and collaborate with supplier and company representatives.
• Understand machine hydraulic system architecture and components, manufacturing processes and global sourcing and apply specialized technical information to understand functional requirements, identify trends, draft detailed component requirements and improvement projects, evaluate material properties, complete design analysis/verification activities, lead detailed collaboration sessions with multiple teams, and conduct technical design reviews.

Secondary job responsibilities

• Collaborate with the global engineering team, hydraulic component suppliers and procurement professionals to identify and deliver product value on business investments.
• Serve as product design engineering lead for purchased finished, supplier designed component new product introduction projects.
• Leverage hydraulics component engineering processes, technical and commercial competencies and collaborate with supplier and company representatives.
• Understand machine hydraulic system architecture and components, manufacturing processes and global sourcing and apply specialized technical information to understand functional requirements, identify trends, draft detailed component requirements and improvement projects, evaluate material properties, complete design analysis/verification activities, lead detailed collaboration sessions with multiple teams, and conduct technical design reviews.

Education & Experience Required

• Years of experience: 5+ years industry experience
• Masters
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's degree in an accredited Engineering curriculum preferred, but open to considering an applicant with an Applied Engineering or Technical Business background
• Do not accept internships as job experience
• Are there past or additional job titles or roles that would provide comparable background to this role: Mechanical, Design Engineer, Project Team Leader

Top 3 Skills

• Advanced proficiency with collaboration/project management methods and Microsoft Office programs (e.g. SharePoint, Teams, Excel, PowerBi, etc.)
• Ability to conduct analysis on large data sets, quickly summarize key results/trends and incorporate into stakeholder reports.
• Basic knowledge of a full product development lifecycle: business value, systems interactions, requirements gathering, functional specification authoring, product development methods, testing/validation and value stream engineering.

Additional Technical Skills (Required)

• Advanced proficiency with collaboration/project management methods and Microsoft Office programs (e.g. SharePoint, Teams, Excel, PowerBi, etc.)
• Ability to conduct analysis on large data sets, quickly summarize key results/trends and incorporate into stakeholder reports.
• Basic knowledge of a full product development lifecycle: business value, systems interactions, requirements gathering, functional specification authoring, product development methods, testing/validation and value stream engineering.

(Desired) Additional Technical Skills

• Experience with modeling applications such as CREO and ability to read and interpret blueprints, technical drawings, schematics and analytical reports.
• Working knowledge of hydraulic components or systems desired.

Soft Skills (Required)

• Highly competent in both verbal and written communications, problem solving, customer service and interpersonal skills.
• Basic ability to lead team meetings, work effectively in a team environment, independently and efficiently manage one’s time, and taking initiative in completing deliverables.
• Detail oriented, analytical, innovative with problem solving ability and operating with urgency.