Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

Essential Functions & Responsibilities

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily.
• Design, prototype, test and trouble shoot electromechanical access control products.
• Apply advanced mathematical analysis & FEA in validation of designs prior to prototyping & physical testing.
• Provide design solutions that fulfill product requirements, expressed and implied (through industry knowledge).
• Visualize and communicate design solutions that meet the desired project outcome.
• Prepare formal reports on product status and summaries for executive staff.
• Define appropriate tolerances for parts within assemblies to ensure it is producible and provides for a reliable, interchangeable assembly.
• Apply engineering principles to design challenges while being aware of the implications of cost, schedule and manufacturability of the product.
• Apply basic, industry drafting standards and geometric dimensioning and tolerance methods (e.g. ASME Y14.5).
• Maintain an awareness of changes in the industry and in the development of components that may assist future design activities.

Qualifications

• Education and/or Experience: Bachelor's or Master’s degree (B. S. in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent) from four-year college or university; and 10+ years related experience in engineering.
• Computer Skills: Must have working knowledge of word processing and spreadsheet, e-mail and internet software. Must be proficient in SolidWorks.
• Language Ability: For business and safety reasons, ability to write reports and business correspondence in English and effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, technicians, and assemblers in English.
• Mathematical Ability: Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory and factor analysis.
• Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply principles of logic or scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems. Ability to deal with non-verbal symbolism (formulas, scientific equations, graphs, musical notes, etc.) in its most difficult phases. Ability to deal with a variety of abstract and concrete variables.