Mechanical Design Engineer

JOB DESCRIPTION

Horton Pedestrian Access Solutions, a division of Overhead Door Corporation, multiple service locations, and more than 200 value-adding distribution partners across North America, Horton Pedestrian Access Solutions addresses a broad range of specialty door and access applications under the brands Horton Automatics, Won-Door, and Door Services Corporation. Horton’s breadth of solutions enables architects to achieve their unique design vision, combining exceptional functionality and code compliance with elegant and flexible designs.

Horton Automatics brand provides the broadest portfolio of automatic doors in the industry, which specialty applications for healthcare, security, and office buildings.

Horton Pedestrian Access Solutions, a division of Overhead Door Corporation, multiple service locations, and more than 200 value-adding distribution partners across North America, Horton Pedestrian Access Solutions addresses a broad range of specialty door and access applications under the brands Horton Automatics, Won-Door, and Door Services Corporation. Horton’s breadth of solutions enables architects to achieve their unique design vision, combining exceptional functionality and code compliance with elegant and flexible designs.

Horton Automatics brand provides the broadest portfolio of automatic doors in the industry, which specialty applications for healthcare, security, and office buildings.

This role involves the design, development, and improvement of electro-mechanical automated door systems, ensuring compliance with industry and regulatory standards. The engineer manages all phases of the product lifecycle—from conceptual design and testing to troubleshooting and sustaining engineering. Responsibilities include supporting cross-functional teams (marketing, production, suppliers), conducting performance testing, managing product improvements and obsolescence, and coordinating product certifications. The position also involves technical problem-solving, prototype development, cost-reduction evaluations, and maintaining product reliability and performance.

Project management tasks such as creating budgets, timelines, and scopes are also required. This position is not eligible for employer-sponsored work authorization.

• Designs electro-mechanical automated door systems to industry and regulatory standards.
• Performs a variety of engineering work in planning, design and improvement of products.
• Defines, documents, analyzes, performs, and interprets developmental tests for new and/or modified products or product components including parts and processes from outside vendors.
• Investigates and resolves product issues in conjunction with other engineering and technical personnel.
• Provides technical support and advice to marketing department, distributors, architects, the production floor, and other engineering groups as needed.
• Aids in troubleshooting and resolving existing product issues in the field and production floor
• Manages obsolescence projects for older products or product lines
• Designs product improvements for existing products
• Acts as liaison with outside suppliers in establishing or modifying specifications for purchased items.
• Devises and applies testing procedures for parts or sub-assemblies received from outside vendors.
• Participates in the design reviews, stage gate process reviews and design for manufacture reviews.
• Works with Product Managers to initiate the first article production and participates in the first article inspection process.
• Research new and existing technologies for applications to our products to enhance operational performance and reliability.
• Review new product design projects and prepares them for transition into the sustaining engineering department from a design maintenance perspective.
• Construct prototypes of new products and ensure that their designed usage meet the product specifications.
• Manage product testing for special applications and manage any outside vendors that may participate in the testing.
• Perform life cycle testing on proposed cost reducing material to ensure that they meet the product specifications indicated and…