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Mechanical Engineer

Aditi Consulting
Buffalo, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 1/7/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/22/2026

Salary: $110k - $115k/Year
 
Responsibilities:
  • Design and develop mechanical systems per customer and technical requirements
  • Mentor and coach junior engineers, fostering technical growth and knowledge sharing
  • Make key design decisions that impact product performance, cost, and manufacturability
  • Aligning engineering solutions with objectives
  • Drive innovation through technology exploration, patent contributions, or process
  • Lead engineering efforts from concept through production launch
  • Conduct DFMEA sessions to identify and mitigate design risks
  • Manage APQP/NPD processes for successful product launches
  • Lead root cause analysis and corrective actions for quality/field issues
  • Deliver cost-effective solutions based on performance and spec evaluations
  • Collaborate with manufacturing and supply chain for DFM/DFA alignment
  • Create and review detailed drawings, layouts, and schematics
  • Oversee prototype builds and validation testing, including test planning
  • Analyze test results to enhance product performance and reliability
  • Support Sales and Field Service in resolving technical issues
  • Lead 8D teams for systemic problem-solving and continuous improvement
  • Maintain clear communication with internal teams and external partners
  • Contribute to long-term engineering strategy and innovation initiatives
 
Requirements:
  • Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering (master’s preferred; ABET-accredited)
  • 10 years of relevant experience
  • Basic project management skills and ability to lead engineering based medium sized projects or parts of projects, including lower-level engineers
  • Experience with development of mechanical based systems in transportation
  • Strong knowledge of mechanical design of systems and components including engineering & manufacturing principles, practices, and procedures
  • Excellent problem-solving skills
  • Expertise in APQP/NPD Stage Gate, DFMEA, RCA/8D’s, DFM/DFA, Tolerance Stack
  • Working knowledge in Poka-Yoke, PPAP, VAVE, Lean Six Sigma, GD&T, DOE
  • Proficiency in SolidWorks or similar
  • Strong organizational and time management skills with a track record of managing multiple projects successfully
  • Ability to mentor junior engineers and lead cross-functional teams
 
Skills:
  • Problem Analysis: Collects and organizes relevant information from various sources, identifies trends, and quickly identifies key aspects when analyzing large data sets.
  • Results Orientation: Sets ambitious goals independently, delivers results better or sooner than expected, and makes proposals for more efficient or effective methods.
  • Integrity: Takes personal responsibility, is honest about opportunities and risks, keeps promises, and informs others frankly about issues.
  • Teamwork: Works collaboratively towards collective results, comes up with ideas to improve team performance, and helps others achieve their goals.
  • Learning Ability: Applies new information and ideas proactively, changes behavior based on feedback and combines new and existing knowledge.
  • Creativity: Comes up with new, unconventional ideas and solutions, questions conventional views, and makes use of unusual sources.
  • Self-Organization: Organizes and prioritizes tasks independently to efficiently reach goals, identifies workload issues, and realistically plans time needed.
  • Written Communication: Writes concise, reader-focused communications using examples, metaphors, and illustrations to clarify.
  • Adaptability: Adjusts activities and behavior independently when changes are necessary, responds effectively to unexpected issues, and adapts plans as needed.
  • Stress Tolerance: Remains calm and continues to work effectively under serious time pressure or in the face of resistance, setbacks, and disappointments.
  • Initiative: Takes action independently, is proactive in coming up with proposals and ideas, and takes on tasks without being asked.
  • Customer Orientation: Actively works to identify customer needs, makes suitable proposals, monitors customer satisfaction, and provides clear communication about what can/cannot be done.
 
Pay Transparency: The typical base pay for this role across the U.S. is: $110k - $115k/ year. Final offer amounts, within the base pay set forth above, are determined by factors including your relevant skills, education and experience. Full-time employees are eligible for benefits including medical, dental, and vision benefits, health savings account option for qualified medical plan enrollments, accrual of up to 10 paid days off, 3 days paid bereavement leave, 401(k) plan participation with employer match, life and disability insurance, commuter benefits, dependent care flexible spending account, accident insurance, critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, travel reimbursement, accommodations for work travel, and discretionary performance or recognition bonus. Sick leave and mobile phone reimbursement as required by state or local law.
 
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