Sr. Mechanical Design Engineer

Wood Dale, Illinois Permanent USD125,000 - USD150,000 per year View Job Description
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a growing team and business to help drive Mechanical Design projects among new and existing product lines. You will play a key part in ensuring that designs are effective for manufacturability and assembly, and align with production teams.
  • Rapid growth business, high visibility role
  • Competitive base pay & benefits, profit sharing, 10% 401k match!

About Our Client

Our client is a rapidly growing manufacturer of various metal fabricated and assembled products that provide security solutions to a wide range of customers. With over 50 years in business, they have been expanding their business presence and approaching new markets with their innovative products. As such, they are continuously developing new applications for their customers. They are looking for a tenured mechanical design engineer to join their team, focused on mechanical design and development, and offer a great package of pay, benefits, and more.

Job Description

  • Drive end-to-end product development efforts, converting market needs and customer requirements into commercially successful, manufacturable security products.
  • Develop, administer, and optimize product configurator models, rules, and logic to streamline quoting, configuration, and order-entry processes.
  • Create, verify, and standardize installation guides, technical documentation, user manuals, and product communications for internal stakeholders and field personnel.
  • Direct the design and engineering of sophisticated mechanical systems from concept through production, balancing performance, manufacturability, quality, and cost objectives.
  • Coach and support junior engineers, designers, and technicians through technical mentorship, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Manage cross-functional development teams while leading design reviews and translating customer expectations into clear engineering requirements and executable project plans.
  • Conduct detailed structural and load analyses, perform finite element simulations, select appropriate materials, and implement Design for Manufacturing (DFM) and Design for Assembly (DFA) best practices.

MPI does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, or based on an individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local law. MPI encourages applications from minorities, women, the disabled, protected veterans and all other qualified applicants.

MPI does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, or based on an individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local law. MPI encourages applications from minorities, women, the disabled, protected veterans and all other qualified applicants.

The Successful Applicant

A successful Sr. Mechanical Design Engineer should have:

  • Strong mechanical and structural experuence with a problem-solving and soltution-driven thinking
  • Ability to manage complex NPD engineering projects (Short and Long Term)
  • Engineering Degree Required - Mechanical preferred
  • 10+ years of relevant mechanical design experuence - Metals manufacturing strongly preferred
  • Knowledge of measurement toos, GD&T, FEA, etc.
  • 5-10+ years of New Product Development
  • Strong experience with AutoCAD and Autodesk Inventor
  • Knoweldge of ERP and Microsoft Suite, and Project management tools



What's on Offer

  • Annual salary of $125,000 to $150,000 depending on experience and interviews
  • Comprehensive health benefits
  • 10% 401k match
  • Profit sharing
  • More

Interested? Apply today.

Contact
Connor Whitman
Quote job ref
JN-112026-7145773

Job summary

Sector
Engineering & Manufacturing
Sub Sector
Production, Manufacturing
Industry
Industrial / Manufacturing
Where
Wood Dale
Contract Type
Permanent
Consultant name
Connor Whitman
Job Reference
JN-112026-7145773
 

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