Principal Mechanical Design Engineer

Responsibilities

• Plan, conceptualize, and create mechanical designs for new and existing products while ensuring alignment with broader product, quality, manufacturability, and business objectives.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for complex mechanical and structural systems, including machine structures, winches/gearboxes, motors, sheaves, drums, enclosures, operator cabs, and related equipment systems.
• Develop mechanical and structural connection designs, including bolted, pinned, and welded connections, and guide design decisions involving complex structural interfaces.
• Evaluate tolerance stack-up for new or existing designs and recommend appropriate class fits, allowances, and tolerances for manufacturing, machining, and assembly applications.
• Prepare and review component and system drawings, including layouts, assemblies, installation drawings, and supporting technical documentation.
• Provide technical direction for component and system drafting, ensuring drawings are properly annotated with dimensions, surface finishes, weld requirements, and tolerance fits for manufacturing and machine assemblies.
• Lead project teams through complex and ambiguous technical challenges, developing execution strategies, identifying risks, and guiding work toward milestones and objectives.
• Mentor and develop engineers and technical team members by providing guidance, feedback, technical coaching, and support on complex engineering matters.
• Perform and review engineering calculations to support project design decisions; check drawings for completeness, accuracy, and compliance with applicable standards.
• Collaborate across machine system development groups, engineering leadership, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, vendors, contractors, and other internal or external stakeholders.
• Lead departmental or project meetings, facilitate technical alignment, and communicate project status, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to appropriate stakeholders.
• Develop and present technical specifications, reports, recommendations, and decision-support materials for complex projects or product improvements.
• Partner with engineering leadership on updates, new ideas, design changes, issues, resource needs, and longer-term technical direction.
• Anticipate internal and external business, technical, regulatory, or industry challenges and proactively recommend product, process, design, or service improvements.
• Provide thought leadership and technical direction to the broader engineering organization regarding structures, weldments, standards, design practices, and product reliability.
• Represent Lanco IEM engineering expertise in discussions with key external stakeholders, suppliers, customers, or technical partners as needed.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to lead teams in a structured 3-D design environment.
• Detail-oriented with the ability to interpret customer specifications, translate requirements into engineering solutions, and apply applicable industry codes and standards.
• Extensive knowledge of industry codes, standards compliance, design practices, and documentation requirements within mechanical and structural engineering.
• Detailed knowledge of bill-of-material management on drawings and within an ERP system.
• Prominent ability to lead complex projects and technical teams through ambiguous assignments with notable risk, complexity, and business impact.
• Advanced knowledge of machine design and operation, with industry knowledge in machinery operation, structural systems, fabrication, and welding.
• Extensive experience working in a structured release environment, including creation of releases, engineering change notices, and related product documentation.
• Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills, including the ability to convey complex technical information clearly and influence diverse audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects, priorities, and technical deliverables while maintaining alignment with medium- to long-term engineering goals.