Senior Mechanical Engineer

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Position: Senior Mechanical Engineer

Location: Chaska, MN

Job : R

# of Openings: 1

Design Mechanical Engineer is responsible to complete and contribute in the design, development, testing, qualification, and production support of motors in a cost effective and timely fashion to meet the customer’s needs and schedules. The engineer shall work within a multi-disciplined organization and enlist the help of other disciplines, when necessary, such as other engineers, manufacturing, purchasing, and quality assurance.

• Design electric motors in collaboration with Electromechanical Design Engineers to meet customer requirements.
  • Design of rotors, housings, endcaps, and other mechanical assemblies.
  • Sizing and selection of Bearings to meet loads and life necessary to meet system performance
• Create and modify drawings with appropriate GD&T, documentation of change and efficacy. Verify Bill of Material. Ensure accuracy of drawings.
• Design cost effective easily manufacturable hardware taking into account:
  • tolerance stack-ups
  • ease of assembly
  • meet customer installation requirements
  • materials of construction
  • methods of manufacture mechanical environment (Thermal and Vibe) and Application Loading
  • preliminary analytical results (Hand calcs and FEA)
  • mistake proofing
• Disposition non-conforming hardware and correct production/vendor issues.
• Perform failure investigations of designs.
• Create/Review and Approve processes for assembly, test, and related activities to the development and qualification testing of a design.
• Interface with internal and external customers to determine product changes needed for applications as a representative of the company.
• Write technical documents for internal and external customers.
• Participate in design reviews (internal and external)
• Support new business pursuits that address program technical requirements and associated schedule and costs.

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience solving technical problems using a methodical scientific approach.
• Experience in 3D modeling of mechanical components and assemblies preferably CREO
• Experience with Brushless DC motor design and operation
• Experience with Finite Element Analysis for Structural, Thermal and Dynamic Analysis
• Possess organizational and task management skills to work concurrent issues in parallel.
• Leadership skills to interface with various other teams and disciplines at the company.
  
  Knowledge of manufacturing processes such as additive manufacturing, casting, milling, turning, grinding, drilling, etc.
• Must be a US Citizen
• Desire todo‘whatittakes’ toaccomplishour goalsandWIN
• Speak up!
  
  Activelyparticipatein team meetings to provide constructive recommendations and initiate actions to support company initiatives/goals
• Be proactive, think ahead, and keep the big picture in mind
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to conditions typical of a manufacturing/machine shop environment, including, but not limited to fluids, fumes or airborne particles, moving mechanical parts, noise and vibration
• This job interacts both in a professional office environment and a manufacturing/machine shop environment. This role uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, printers/scanners/copier machine, as well as environments inclusive of the appropriate eye, hearing and foot protection (as required).
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