Senior Mechanical Project Engineer
ann Arbor, MI
Job Description:
· · The candidates need to have a very strongautomation or machine design background
Summary:
The Senior Mechanical ProjectEngineer is responsible for engineering mechanical designs in the BU Productsdepartment.
General Duties:
• Design and develop machine concepts to customer andproject specifications for all equipment including purchased and manufactured
• Work with applications engineering and sales to fullyunderstand scope of work, project requirements and time-lines & projectschedules
• Assist with creating proposal models,drawings and sketches during the quoting phase
• Work with project management to fully understand projectrequirements, develop cost effective and innovative solutions and work throughany design concerns or missing information
• Collaborate with internal and external vendors to createand test functional prototypes of new components including component changesand design improvements
• Ensure that all designs and concepts arein compliance with current safety standards
• Ensure that actual design costs are withinthe estimated project design costs
• Work within project milestones includingbudgets, schedules and project time-lines
• Work with and lead design team of engineers on projectswith responsibility of assigning design work on projects to the team and leadthem effectively throughout the project
• Responsible for planning and implementing all internaldesign reviews, external customer design reviews and project handover tomanufacturing
• Work with manufacturing and operations toalign engineering with assembly and machining capabilities
• Attend kick-off meetings with team; assign engineeringresponsibilities to mechanical design engineers and work with the team as theproject lead
• Understand fully and apply GD&T to drawing package asrequired by technical specifications and/or project requirements
• Oversee design, detail, bills of materials, designreviews and check of all aspects of the mechanical design package
Key Skills:
- primarily in automation design. That is machine design, moving equipment.