R&D Mechanical Engineer IV

R&D Mechanical Engineer IV

The anticipated closing date of this job posting is September 11, 2026. Actual compensation within the range will be determined based on experience, skills, and qualifications considerations.

Job Summary (the purpose and general nature of the job):
The R&D Mechanical Engineer IV will possess expert knowledge of engineering principles and will execute, and lead product development activities as directed by immediate and upper-level management with little or no guidance. This role is responsible for driving designs from concept through commercialization, ensuring designs meet performance, cost, manufacturability, quality, safety, and compliance requirements. The R&D Mechanical Engineer IV supports the global Stolle community by providing technical expertise, data-driven recommendations, and effective communication to management, manufacturing, assembly, field service, vendors, and customers to enable smooth product transitions.

This position assumes end-to-end ownership of assigned projects, including providing project direction, making decisions required for project success, and driving the project's financial outcomes.

Project Leadership Responsibilities: May provide technical leadership and project direction responsibility, including:

• Technical mentoring and training of engineers on Stolle standard operating procedures and design best practices
• Task delegation and coordination across engineering resources as needed to meet project goals
• Quality control of engineering output (drawing checks, model checks, design reviews, test plan reviews)
• Monitoring project budgets, timelines, and engineering labor estimates in coordination with management

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Provides advanced engineering support as required to the global Stolle community while drawing from a wide breadth of expert engineering knowledge.
• Maintains involvement with assigned projects from design inception through commercialization; leads technical execution through design, build, test, trial, and implementation phases.
• Assumes end-to-end ownership of assigned projects and is responsible for overall project success (technical performance, schedule, cost, manufacturability, and quality); drives issues to closure and escalates risks early with clear options and recommendations.
• Provides project direction within scope by making timely, well-supported technical decisions; aligns stakeholders, establishes priorities, and drives the financial outcomes of the project through accurate estimating, design-to-cost decisions, and active delegation of engineering tasks while monitoring material spend.
• Provides sales and marketing support on new ideas and cutting-edge, industry-changing technology; contributes to value proposition development and customer-facing technical discussions.
• Accurately estimates material cost and engineering labor on design projects; supports profitability/ROI analysis and design-for-cost decisions.
• Develops, documents, and communicates requirements; proactively revalidates requirements and performs what-if/contingency planning to mitigate design/test/trial risk.
• Offers creative, unique, and effective design solutions when presented with complex engineering problems; executes advanced problem solving and root cause analysis.
• Creates and releases complete drawing packages and models using CAD/PDM; including configurations, product structure, and bill of materials creation/management in CAD/ERP.
• Designs components and systems across varied manufacturing processes, including sheet metal, mill/lathe parts, weldments, cast parts, assemblies, mechanisms, and tooling as applicable.
• Performs and/or coordinates analysis activities such as hand calculations/rough evaluation, power/utility/torque calculations, gearing and mechanism (dynamics) analysis, fatigue/life calculations, statistical analysis, and finite element/structural analysis as appropriate.
• Develops test plans, acceptance criteria, and test rigs/fixtures as needed; executes functional and longevity testing; analyzes and documents results to support sound engineering conclusions.
• Supports dimensional/alignment/measurement and inspection activities…