Principal Mechanical Engineering

Spectrum Safety Solutions

With approximately 1,500 employees operating in more than 20 countries, Spectrum Safety Solutions is a global leader in fire detection and suppression solutions for high-hazard applications across verticals such as critical infrastructure, oil and gas, marine and clean energy. Our global team leverages strong customer relationships across four recognized brands, Det-Tronics, Marioff, Autronica, and Fireye, to deliver differentiated lifecycle solutions and advance growth across key segments. Carved out from Carrier’s Fire & Security business in July 2024, Spectrum Safety Solutions is now a privately held company under the ownership of Sentinel Capital Partners.

Det-Tronics

We make the world a better place to live! At Spectrum’s Det-Tronics, we build and maintain comfortable, accessible, efficient, healthy, safe, secure, and sustainable environments. Det-Tronics is a $180M technologically innovative, projects-based global brand protecting customers in many challenging environments with high end flame and gas detection products and systems. Det-Tronics is a part of Spectrum Safety Solutions and has a global footprint with manufacturing sites in the U.S. and sales presence in all key geographies.

About this role

The Principal Mechanical Engineer leads and manages hardware aspects of products throughout their entire lifecycle from architecture, planning, design through verification and validation. Provides mechanical-design technical leadership for teams in cross-functional new product development and sustaining engineering projects. Hardware design development is for products based on different complex sensing technologies (e.g. Optical, Electrochemical) and communication technologies (wired and wireless).

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership to mechanical team members.
• Lead mechanical strategic planning, concept generation, architecture definition and translation to system/subsystem/component definitions, with a focus on manufacturability, reliability, safety, and sustainability.
• Lead the capture of mechanical requirements and associated rationale(s) for regulated products.
• Collaborate with other engineers and designers on requirements development, product risk analyses, design and technical reviews, and other product development deliverables.
• Support project managers by providing work breakdown plans and task estimates in support of project plans and schedules.
• Manage tools and processes necessary to ensure traceability from requirements to test cases.
• Lead and contribute to the development of resolutions to product mechanical-related issues in development projects and manufacturing operations.
• Follow development processes, lead technical reviews, ensure product requirements comply with company standards, and properly document work deliverables.
• Work closely with technical and subject matter experts to ensure accurate and complete use case coverage and regulation compliance.
• Ensure that mechanical designs are rigorously documented, supported and substantiated with analytical and/or numerical analyses e.g., FEA and tolerance analyses, tested at different stages of development, and controlled.
• Establish (as needed), implement, and maintain written verification and testing standards and policies.
• Work closely with Approvals and Test Engineers to develop and execute mechanical tests.
• Participate in roadmap planning and identify competency/resource gaps and implement plans to close the gaps.
• Support multiple product development programs at a given time.
• Develop and implement risk mitigating solutions.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• 7 years of experience including with CAD tools.
• 5 years developing electro-mechanical products.
• Must have led the mechanical development of at least one (1) product development effort from inception through market launch.
• Due to contractual agreements, must be a US citizen, green card holder, or permanent resident.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3 years' experience with PTC Creo and Windchill CAD tools.
• Advanced degree strongly preferred.
• Platformed product development desired.
• Strong mechanical discipline knowledge and expert in mechanical engineering design analyses (particularly tolerance analyses and FEA) and testing methods.
• Experience working with vendors in design for manufacturability in die/investment casting, injection molding, machining, assembly, and troubleshooting manufacturing defects in defective materials reviews.
• Possess a thorough knowledge of design practices, methodologies, tools, and instruments preferably for regulated products. High hazard application (Industrial Life Safety, SIL2, explosion-proof enclosure) knowledge is strongly preferred.
• Experience with functional safety standards (e.g., IEC 61508) and Functional Safety certified is desired.
• Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills for collaboration with project stakeholders (Product Managers, Customers, and other Engineers).
• Skilled in collaborating with other engineers to distill market needs into defined technical requirements, system/subsystem/component architectures, and verification/ validation test plans.
• Demonstrated root cause analysis skills (Lean Six Sigma, 5 Whys, Ishikawa diagrams).
• Expert knowledge of GD&T and ASME Y14.5 drawing best practices.
• Ability to work both collaboratively and independently on assignments to foster continuous improvement of team functions and deliverables.
• Experienced with FMEAs and developing control techniques to mitigate risks.
• Self-motivated and demonstrated ability to lead process improvement activities.
• Must be able to perform essential job functions safely, and work within established company guidelines.