Mechanical Engineer

Location: Delphos

Production Equipment Design & Modernization | Food Manufacturing | 1st Shift This Jobot Job is hosted by:
Adrian Martinez Are you a fit? Easy Apply now by clicking the "Quick Apply" button and sending us your resume. Salary: $90,000 - $130,000 per year A bit about us:
Founded nearly four decades ago and based in Delphos, Ohio, we are an established food manufacturer producing refrigerated dips, desserts, yoghurt, salsa, and specialty foods sold in grocery stores nationwide. Since our founding in 1988, we have grown from a small local operation into a trusted family of recognizable refrigerated brands while maintaining our commitment to quality, consistency, and thoughtful innovation.

We continue to invest in the equipment, engineering capabilities, and manufacturing systems necessary to support our growth and produce fresh foods built for real life. Why join us? High-Impact Design Role:
Modernize and improve the production and packaging equipment the plant relies on every day. Full Project Ownership:
Follow designs from initial concept and engineering calculations through fabrication, installation, validation, and startup. Hands-On Engineering:
Divide your time between CAD design, the fabrication and maintenance shops, and the production floor. Stable 1st-Shift

Schedule:

Primary schedule of 6:00 a.m.–2:30 p.m. Technical Variety:
Work with machinery, conveyance, guarding, utilities, power transmission, pneumatics, hydraulics, and custom fabrication. Visible Results:
See your designs installed and operating in a live manufacturing environment. Cross-Functional Exposure:
Partner with maintenance, manufacturing engineering, sanitation, operations, fabricators, vendors, and equipment suppliers. Established Manufacturer:
Join a growing organization with nearly four decades of food-manufacturing experience. Job Details We are seeking a hands-on Mechanical Engineer to design, modify, specify, and validate the physical equipment and mechanical systems supporting our food-manufacturing operation. This individual will develop new equipment solutions, modernize aging production and packaging equipment, and ensure that all mechanical designs are safe, sanitary, maintainable, reproducible, and appropriate for the manufacturing environment.

The Mechanical Engineer will create complete 3D models, fabrication drawings, equipment layouts, and bills of material while supporting projects through fabrication, installation, testing, and startup. Success in this role is measured by whether the finished equipment installs correctly, operates reliably, withstands production demands, meets sanitation requirements, and can be maintained effectively.

Key Responsibilities and Duties Mechanical Design and Fabrication Develop 3D models and complete fabrication drawings for production and packaging equipment, change parts, tooling, fixtures, guards, transitions, chutes, hoppers, frames, and platforms. Specify dimensions, tolerances, surface finishes, materials, fasteners, and fabrication requirements. Perform and document engineering calculations involving loads, stress, deflection, fatigue, torque, drive sizing, and power transmission. Select materials, coatings, finishes, and elastomers appropriate for food contact, washdown, cleaning chemicals, temperature, corrosion, and wear.

Apply sanitary-design principles involving surface finish, radii, drainability, cleanability, joints, fasteners, crevices, and hollow structures. Coordinate fabrication through internal resources and outside vendors, including drawing release, quoting, design reviews, inspections, and final acceptance. Maintain controlled drawings, revision histories, equipment files, and bills of material. Production and Packaging Equipment Design and validate modifications to existing production and packaging equipment. Modernize aging machinery through equipment redesigns, component upgrades, rebuilds, and obsolete-part replacement.

Evaluate how proposed modifications affect machine safety, sanitation, maintainability, warranties, and OEM support. Design conveyance and material-handling systems involving transfers, accumulation, elevation changes, and product flow. Size and select motors, gear reducers, belts, chains, bearings, couplings, and related drive components. Design machine guarding and access systems in accordance with applicable safety standards. Support machine-safety risk assessments and corrective actions. Develop pneumatic and hydraulic circuits and specify components…