Senior Design Engineer

Mid-level Mechanical Design Engineer with a minimum of 10+ years of work experience in machine design to support design projects.

Experience in packaging machinery – design and development of new, advanced, and updated mechanical systems for vertical packaging, flow wrapping, bag filling, and palletizing machinery and product feed systems is mandatory.

Mandatory Skills:

Packaging machinery design experience.

Good understanding of packaging machine functions and design principles.

Experience with complex machine and/or system design using state of the art CAD and analysis tools (SolidWorks, Creo, or equivalent).

Familiar with Electrical / Controls / Pneumatics and hydraulics basics.

Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite and able to learn new applications without difficulty.

Field experience in installation and/or troubleshooting.

Essential duties and responsibilities:

Research and prepare product/machine specifications.

Design responsibility for individual components to complete integrated machine systems.

Partner with customers and sales executives, other mechanical and electrical design engineers, manufacturing personnel and customer service technicians.

Develops engineering models and/or drawings (using company standards and tools) including Bills of Materials (BOMs).

Project reporting, tracking and organization.

Performs continuous improvement/cost reductions on machines and options.

Performs risk assessments for specific machines and/or options.

Creates documentation needed to approve the quality of machinery/options.

Participates in sales meetings to describe product-related issues and ongoing work.

Participates in customer meetings to discuss specific machine layouts, specifications, etc.

Train Customer Service, Production Engineering and Customer on machine setup, operation, and maintenance.

Dealing with Ambiguity: effectively cope with change; shift gears comfortably; decide and act without having the total picture; comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.

Performs all commitments/tasks in a timely and professional manner.

Technical skills:

Industry specific machine design experience:

Packaging Machines - Vertical packaging, flow wrapping, bag filling, and palletizing machinery and product feed systems are mandatory.

Experience in materials, component selection, and general machine shop processes.

Experience with Power transmission, pneumatics, and mechanism design.

Knowledgeable in selection of mechanical OEM parts (sprockets, belts, etc.).

3D CAD modelling and detailing engineering – should be able to create 3D modeling and 2D manufacturing drawings applying GD&T principles.

Experience in CAD data management using PDM / PLM software.

Adherence to CAD standards – ISO, ANSI, experience in MBD will be an added advantage.

Should have worked on at least couple of engineering projects from start to finish (Scope, Specification, Idea, Concept Engineering and Cross-functional team experience.