Senior Mechanical Engineer

Our Client is seeking a hands-on Senior Mechanical Engineer to lead mechanical design and contribute to the long-term development of the company's engineering organization. The selected candidate will work closely with senior leadership and participate in a structured, multi-year transfer of product knowledge, technical authority, and engineering responsibility. This highly visible position combines engineered-to-order capital-equipment design, system integration, fabrication support, field problem-solving, and technical team leadership.

This is not a purely administrative management position. The selected candidate must remain technically engaged and capable of performing original design work, reviewing engineering work, resolving complex equipment problems, and improving engineering practices.

• Lead the mechanical design of engineered-to-order industrial equipment from initial requirements through production release, fabrication, installation, and field support.
• Perform hands-on Solid Works design work involving equipment layouts, complex assemblies, production drawings, components, and engineering changes.
• Review and approve mechanical drawings and designs.
• Lead formal design reviews addressing equipment performance, safety, manufacturability, serviceability, cost, and schedule.
• Integrate fabricated structures, burners, gas trains, fans, ductwork, instrumentation, controls, and purchased components into complete operating systems.
• Provide day-to-day technical direction, work prioritization, coaching, and development for an established mechanical engineering team.
• Partner with electrical engineering, project management, purchasing, fabrication, field service, sales, suppliers, and customers.
• Resolve design, fabrication, installation, commissioning, and operating problems using disciplined root-cause analysis.
• Identify technical and project-execution risks early and communicate practical recommendations to senior leadership.
• Improve engineering standards, drawing quality, component standardization, revision control, and Solid Works/PDM practices.
• Capture essential product and process knowledge as part of CPI's structured engineering-leadership transition.
• Support customer sites, suppliers, equipment inspections, installations, commissioning activities, and field troubleshooting as required.

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from an accredited institution.
• Typically 10 or more years of progressively responsible mechanical-engineering experience.
• Demonstrated experience designing complex industrial capital equipment, preferably in an engineered-to-order environment.
• Advanced and current Solid Works proficiency, including original design, equipment layouts, complex assemblies, production drawings, design reviews, and engineering changes.
• Experience supporting mechanical designs through fabrication and assembly.
• Experience supporting equipment installation, commissioning, field troubleshooting, or aftermarket service.
• Experience integrating fabricated mechanical assemblies with purchased equipment, instrumentation, electrical systems, and controls.
• Demonstrated technical leadership through team supervision, project leadership, design authority, engineer mentoring, work assignment, or department-level responsibility.
• Demonstrated ability to resolve design, fabrication, installation, and field-performance problems using structured root-cause analysis.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with customers, senior leaders, engineers, fabrication personnel, suppliers, and field technicians.
• Ability to travel to supplier and customer locations as required.

• Experience designing thermal oxidizers, air-pollution-control equipment, industrial ovens, furnaces, burners, gas trains, boilers, process-heating systems, heat-recovery systems, or related thermal equipment.
• Working knowledge of industrial combustion and process-airflow systems.
• Solid Works PDM experience.
• Experience supporting equipment using Allen-Bradley or Siemens controls.
• Familiarity with NFPA 86, applicable ASME practices, OSHA requirements, and industrial-equipment risk assessment.
• Experience improving drawing-release, revision-control, engineering-change, configuration-management, or…