Engineering; Non IT and Research - Mechanical Engineer

Mechanical Engineer

ONSITE Hours of Shift: M-F Office Hours

Confirmed payrate: $65/hr Temp to Hire Position:
Potential

MUST HAVE:
Candidates should be strong in both CAD design and hands-on work.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue exceeding $25 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, improving patient diagnostics and therapies or increasing productivity in their laboratories, we are here to support them.

Our R&D team is solving complex engineering problems to enable our customers to find cures for Cancer, vaccines for deadly diseases, and effective drugs to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. Bothell is home to the EVOS® line of fully integrated all-in-one digital inverted microscopes and High Content Analysis imaging instrumentation. Be part of the end-to-end development process for life-changing scientific instrumentation and make your mark on the world!

This is a full-time contract position with an approximate 12-month term. This position may be eligible for extension or conversion to direct hire at the end of the term.

What will you do:

• Lead the product design and mechanical engineering from concept to production, with a strong emphasis on rapid prototyping and proof of concept testing during the early stages of development
• Develop product requirements and translate them to system requirements with subsystem and part level design specifications
• Design products and components that are easy to use, simple to produce (DFM, VE), and practical to maintain
• Design and build fixtures for test and assembly of mechanical and electrical components
• Support a sustainable production environment with well-considered designs and rapid response to manufacturing feedback
• Rigorously document part designs, assembly processes, and methods of operation to support manufacturing and future designs changes.
• Support an integrated engineering community by participating in concept and design reviews both within and outside of your discipline
• Apply engineering and tolerance best practices (GD&T) to innovative designs in areas such as Optics, Mechanics, and Motion Control.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering
• Minimum 5 years of relevant engineering work experience
• Experience leading and driving product development processes
• Ability to advance projects with minimal oversight
• Hands-on experience assembling physical prototypes
• Must be able to effectively communicate design goals and product specification to management and peers
• Strong proficiency with Solid Works
• Strong general computer literacy

Preferred Qualifications:

• MS Degree in Mechanical Engineering
• Experience working with optical systems and/or opto-mechanical designs
• Experience or knowledge of liquid handling systems

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, each one of our 50,000 extraordinary minds has a unique story to tell. Join us and contribute to our singular mission—enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.