What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Mechanical Engineer position at Bullard?
Job Summary:
The Sr. Mechanical Engineer architects and designs new mechanical systems for highly innovative safety products.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
- None, however, leadership experience and a player/coach mindset are crucial. You will work hands-on and informally lead more junior team members.
Duties/Responsibilities:
- Lead and implement the mechanical requirements, design, development, and validation of new life-saving electromechanical products.
- Establish product specifications including design objectives, product features, cost targets, and deadlines based upon project requirements.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure product definition is clear, complete, and achievable and are consistent with market and product research data. Participation in qualitative research activities with end users.
- Collaborate with a cross-functional project team with contributors from product management, product development, sales, manufacturing and operations services to develop and validate new products that meet product specifications.
- Develop testing and evaluation protocols and design experiments as well as oversee the evaluation of related product systems and components.
- Analyze test and product evaluation data and present the results.
Skills/Experience:
- Experience in product categories that involve personal protective equipment that impact a user’s comfort, protect against impacts (falling objects, slips/trips/falls) and/or protect breathing (air purification, flow, etc.)
- Engineering drawings and geometric dimensioning & tolerancing (GD&T)
- Strong mechanical or mechatronics engineering background
- Injection molded plastics design experience strongly preferred
- Demonstrated CAD experience, especially with SolidWorks
- Fluid dynamics, especially with compressible fluid flow
- Experience in the following areas is a plus:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Air filtration design
- Respirators
- Computational fluid dynamics
- Experience in testing and failure mode analysis
- Experience with Designing for Manufacturability and Assembly
- Strong understanding of manufacturing processes
- Excellent communicator and able to make good analysis presentations
- Demonstrated ability to work well with others in a team environment
- Self-starter with a passion for problem-solving and enthusiastic advocacy for the customers’ needs, the products, and the company
Education and Experience:
- B.S. in an Engineering discipline
- 10 years of experience in Mechanical Engineering of new products or related
Physical Requirements:
- Prolonged periods of sitting or standing
- Frequent use of a computer, keyboard, and other standard office equipment.
Location:
This position will be based in Lexington, KY with routine and frequent travel as needed.
Safety Adherence Statement:
Demonstrates the ability to understand and adhere to all company safety practices, policies, and procedures to maintain a safe working environment for self and others.
Disclaimer:
This job description is not intended and should not be construed to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills efforts or working conditions associated with the job; it is intended to be an accurate reflection of those principal job elements essential to the job. Incumbents may be required to perform other duties as assigned or as required by the needs of the business.
