Mechanical Design Engineer

• Engineer, develop, and prove out product concepts and designs.
• Design and analyze hydraulic circuits and circuit components for customer applications.
• Modify, update, or change existing product and component drawings, test procedures, and assembly instructions.
• Communicate design and development work to other departments via Engineering Change Orders, New Product Releases, Special Project Authorizations, etc.
• Setup and operate product testing in a laboratory environment. Validate results with mathematical analysis.
• Review, recommend, direct, and/or create product designs, modifications, and cost estimates and analyze technology, resource needs, and market demand, to plan and assess the feasibility of products and project scope.
• Coordinate and direct projects, making detailed plans to accomplish goals and directing the integration of technical activities to meet objectives.
• Consult with customers after the sales department has established initial contact, to discuss all product issues related to form, fit, and function.
• Set scientific and technical goals within broad outlines provided by top management.
• Work on, investigate, and report or serve as a resource on projects requiring advanced knowledge of a particular field of specialization.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Education and/or Experience

This position requires education equivalent to a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from a four-year college or university and 1 to 3 years of progressively responsible engineering experience for a manufacturing company that includes: design responsibility for the development and oversight of products, hydraulic circuit design, valve, pump, or motor design. Active participation in a hydraulics or SAE society during undergraduate program is highly desired.

Language Skills

Have the ability to read, analyze and interpret engineering designs, drawings, test results and studies and all other related information pertaining to materials, treatments, processing, and manufacturing. Have ability to respond to inquiries or complaints from customers. Have ability to write reports and business correspondence. Have ability to effectively present information to management and customers.

Mathematical Skills

Have ability to calculate figures and amounts such as proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Have ability to apply concepts of algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, and other engineering computations dealing with finite element analysis, and material fatigue. Have ability to explain mathematical calculations and their relationship to product form, fit, function, limits, and life expectancy.

Reasoning Ability

Have ability to define problems, collect and research data, establish facts, use intuition and experience to complement data, and draw valid conclusions. Have ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical, complex, and/or diverse information in mathematical form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. The employee is occasionally required to reach above shoulders, climb, kneel, or crouch. The employee must have the ability to frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and capability to occasionally lift and/or to move up to 25 pounds. Using hand tools, the employee must be able to assemble and disassemble test-stand set-ups, products, and their installation and come into close contact with various operating fluids required for the test, function, and performance evaluation of products.

Other Qualifications

This position requires the ability to operate a variety of office equipment such as a personal computer, calculator, telephone, fax machine, hoists, cranes, lab and production test stand equipment along with associated devices used for monitoring and measuring all size and performance aspects of a product under development, test or production.

COMPANY BENEFITS

Dynex offers competitive pay and an excellent benefit package, including:

• Comprehensive medical plan with employer contribution Health Savings Account
• Dental and vision plans
• 401(k) retirement plan with generous company contributions
• Employer-paid:
• Group term life insurance
• Accidental death and dismemberment
• Short-term disability
• Training opportunities
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Long-term disability
• Voluntary life insurance options
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Up to 13 paid Holiday days, includes building shut down the week of 4th of July.
• Tuition Reimbursement Program