Senior Design Engineer - Military Veterans

What you’ll do:

• Lead efforts to compile, study, and reconcile product requirements and standards to design, develop, validate, and document MCCB products.
• Identify and prioritize projects to eliminate potential design and performance issues during new product development or enhance existing product performance and margin.
• Develop strong technical knowledge in circuit breaker design, testing, application, and applicable governing regulatory standards (UL, CSA, IEC, NEMA, etc.).
• Utilize statistical quality tools to establish performance baselines and identify focus areas for product performance enhancements and robustness improvements.
• Perform and leverage modelling / simulation activities on component and system level to ensure robust designs and adequate performance margins.  
• Learn and integrate Design for Six Sigma, CeTol, GD&T, simulation & modeling software, and phase-gate development processes.
• Maintain product listings and quickly address any third party testing non-conformances to minimize financial sales and delivery impact.
• Establish control plans, component & process verifications and defining critical-to-quality characteristics.
• Engage and collaborate with marketing, industrialization, manufacturing, project management and other key teams to ensure successful product development and launch.
• Utilize communication skills to support customer technical questions and provide routine updates to manager, leadership team, and engineering organization on key projects & metric performances.

Qualifications:

Required (Basic) Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, mechanical preferred, from an accredited institution
2 years of experience working in mechanical or electromechanical component / product design
Must be authorized to work in U.S. without sponsorship now and in the future
May require up to 10% travel.

Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with Six-Sigma quality tools and methodology
Knowledge of circuit breakers and applicable standards
General knowledge of product design for cost-effective manufacture, working knowledge of regulatory standards.
Experience with engineering computer applications. Pro/Engineer Creo or similar, Excel, and computer-based simulation modeling (static stress, thermal, kinematics/dynamics, tolerances, etc.).
Bilingual with fluency in English and Spanish.
 

Skills:

• Cross-functional teamwork and written & verbal communication skills. Fundamentals of project management.
• Methodical mechanical problem solver. Fundamentals of electricity. 
• Understanding of product requirements and performance margins. System, product & component design.
• Laboratory skills and safe work practices.