Mechanical Engineer

Location: Hood River, OR 97031
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Division: Engineering
Job Status: Full-Time
Days Worked: Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri.

ANPC is a global supplier of precision approach guidance and area surveillance solutions aimed at improving the safety and capacity of civil and military aviation for customers on all seven continents. Our transponder-based solutions are designed to serve airfields where others cannot. We are a team of extraordinary professionals working together to perform an important mission to uniquely serve airports with terrain, obstacles and other challenges that no other business can provide.

Job Summary

We aren’t looking for a "cubicle-only" engineer. You’ll be the counterpart to the team on the production floor—the bridge between a high-level concept and a physical reality. We deal with hundreds of different tech branches, so if you get bored doing the same thing every day, you’ll love it here. You need to be as comfortable with a rapid prototype as you are with a formal requirements-based design.

Essential Job Functions

• Full-Lifecycle Design:
  Establish, maintain, and control both allocated and derived requirements. You’ll handle everything from "napkin-sketch" prototypes to rigorous, FAA designs with high design assurance.
• Production Partnership:
  Work hand-in-hand with the folks on the production floor. This role requires strong interpersonal skills and an understanding of Design for Manufacturability (DFM) principles, ensuring our designs are practical to build.
• Documentation & Precision:
  Act as both a Drafter and a Checker. You will create detailed design documentation, manage configuration control, and build/maintain accurate Bills of Materials (BOM).
• Technical Analysis:
  Perform detailed mechanical design, including tolerance stack-up analysis and geometric tolerancing.
• Safety Analysis:
  Use structured processes like Failure Modes, Effects, and Analysis (DFMEA and PFMEA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Human Error Analysis (HEA), etc. to ensure compliance to design assurance levels.
• Simulation and Modeling – FEA to validate structural and thermal performance, developing testing procedures to validate prototypes, 3D printing.
• 3D Modeling – Expertise in creating precise, digital models before making physical items, generating 2D drawings for manufacturing and outsourcing using software such as SOLIDWORKS.
• Prototyping & Testing:
  Procure materials and get your hands dirty constructing prototype assemblies. You will also support environmental test facilities, ensuring our gear survives the real world.
• Environmental Design and Verification – design and validation expertise to ensure specific shock, vibration, temperature and other ruggedization requirements.
• Verification:
  Generate verification procedures and conduct testing (e.g., stability and structural suitability) to ensure compliance.
• Configuration Management and Process Assurance: PLM tools, baselines, change control, BOMs and Indented BOMs, CI definitions, non-conformance (MRB), Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA), Physical Configuration Audits (PCAs).
• Participate in Configuration Control Boards (CCB) and Material Review Boards (MRB). You’ll also conduct peer reviews of other engineers' work to keep our standards high.

Education and Work Experience Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering
• 3-5 years of experience as a Mechanical Engineer, specifically in the design and development of electro-mechanical devices.
• Experience with SOLIDWORKS or other 3D computer-aided design and engineering software.
• Strong skills in problem solving, analytical thinking, methodical exploration of alternatives, breaking down problems into manageable chunks, prioritizing, creating innovative solutions
• Experience in Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GDT&E) – methods for ensuring parts fit, function and are manufacturable
• Understanding of Electromechanical Design – Electronic Assemblies (i.e., PCBs), Cable Assemblies, IPC Standards (IPC-J-STD-001, IPC-A-610)
• Experience with a formal PLM such as PDXpert
• Knowledge of agile development is helpful.
• Attention to detail.
• Excellent writing, graphical, presentation…