Mechanical Engineer

Join Crane Currency as a Mechanical Engineer in Nashua, NH, where you’ll take on complex engineering challenges and lead the transfer, installation, and launch of critical manufacturing equipment across our global operations.

Crane Currency is a premier industrial technology company and a pioneer in currency manufacturing and advanced micro-optics technology for securing physical products. Yes, chances are you have our product in your wallet right now! Our sophisticated equipment and software leverage proprietary core capabilities with detection and sensing technologies. Around the world, our customers trust us to anticipate their needs with innovative, reliable, and high-quality currency & authentication solutions and services—just as they have for generations.

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As a Mechanical Engineer – Technology Transfer, you will lead the mechanical engineering work required to relocate, install, commission, qualify, and stabilize production equipment across our manufacturing sites. You will turn manufacturing and business requirements into practical equipment-transfer plans and coordinate the technical work needed to ensure transferred assets meet safety, quality, reliability, and production requirements. Working across Engineering, Operations, Maintenance, Quality, Validation, suppliers, and contractors, you will resolve installation and startup challenges while improving equipment performance.

You will also maintain critical technical documentation and transfer the knowledge receiving-site teams need to sustain the equipment after project completion.

• Own the mechanical-engineering workstream for assigned technology-transfer projects from initial assessment through stable production and project closeout.
• Evaluate equipment condition, transfer feasibility, capacity, maintainability, safety risks, interfaces, and site-readiness requirements before relocation or installation.
• Translate process and production needs into equipment specifications, mechanical designs, layouts, concepts, and practical installation requirements.
• Create or update mechanical drawings and models using Autodesk Inventor and maintain accurate design files, bills of materials, and equipment documentation.
• Coordinate equipment disassembly, preservation, rigging, transportation, reassembly, alignment, utility connection, guarding, and integration with site infrastructure.
• Lead or support design reviews, installation-readiness reviews, commissioning plans, punch-list management, and technical acceptance decisions.
• Partner with Quality and Validation to define and execute qualification and performance-verification activities and document results, deviations, and corrective actions.
• Provide technical direction to suppliers, contractors, fabricators, machinists, and internal trades; verify work against specifications, drawings, schedules, and safety requirements.

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related engineering discipline or commensurate experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience moving design concepts through specification, design, prototyping, manufacture, installation, debugging, technical support, and maintenance.
• Advanced working knowledge of Autodesk Inventor or comparable 3D mechanical-design software.
• Practical knowledge of machining and fabrication methods, including milling machines, lathes, and drill presses.
• Knowledge of pneumatic and hydraulic system design, specification, installation, and troubleshooting.
• Experience installing, commissioning, transferring, upgrading, or improving manufacturing equipment within an operating production environment.

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