Sr Mechanical Engineer

Andover, Massachusetts, United States, 01810

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At Sloan Valve Company, our culture is built on more than a century of innovation, responsibility, and purpose. Founded in 1906, Sloan helped shape the modern plumbing industry and continues to lead in water-efficient solutions. Guided by our values—family spirit, community, integrity, and innovation—we foster a culture of trust, accountability, and pride. As a fourth-generation family-owned company, our employees are driven by meaningful work that advances sustainability and supports the communities we serve.

Be a leader on the forefront of game changing touch-free, water conservation product technology. Work in a dynamic, challenging environment, leveraging your leadership to bring people and products together in new and exciting ways. Assume technical ownership of design and development of Sloan’s growing sensor operated technologies. Responsible for engineering analysis, prototyping, and experiments to support new product development and production as well as maintaining existing product lines, and ensuring high standards of quality

• Design and maintain new products in a team based, stage gate development process in cooperation with the PMO. Design and document components & complex assemblies. Develop and document engineering specifications and material requirements as required. Process ECNs. Follow established document control procedures.
• Plan effective component and system level experimentation to verify and validate engineering designs to product requirements. Capable of designing unique R&D tests
• Analyze and resolve design challenges and quality issues via a solid understanding of the science behind the design through appropriate engineering analysis including FEA and CFD, DFMEA, tolerance analysis, statistical methods, design of experiments, simulation, calculation and other engineering methodologies
• Prepare clear and concise documentation for designs, including drawings, inspection requirements, calibration procedures, and work instructions. Prepare knowledge briefs, white papers, and engineering reports
• Communicate and collaborate effectively with all levels of the organization both orally and in written fashion. Coordinate engineering activity with Sloan partners and design sites. Participate in setting design standards across the organization
• Leads other engineers in major development projects - makes work assignments and follows up on work content. Instructs junior engineers on process and problem solving.
• Other duties and responsibilities as required.

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Master's degree preferred
• General experience working with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.).
• Ability to produce supporting documentation including 2-D drawings
• Comfortable working in multiple software packages with complicated surface profiles.
• Proficiency and expertise in 3-D Modeling
• Strong analytical skills in hydraulics, mechanisms, dynamics and tolerance analysis

• Experience in design of sensors and related products
• Experience using Creo, FEA software, statistical software
• Knowledge of 6 sigma and design of 6 sigma principles
• Knowledge of statistics, failure analysis and design of experiments.

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