What are the responsibilities and job description for the Mechanical Engineer I - Engine Design position at Generac?
The Engineer I-Engine Design is responsible for providing engineering input to the product development projects assigned to him/her including interfacing with the cross functional team consisting of engineering, operations (industrial engineering, production, and material procurement), sourcing, quality, service, and marketing.
Minimum Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or related Engineering discipline
- At least 3 months of relevant work experience
- Experience with 3D modeling to include Creo or SolidWorks
- Experience with machine design
- Designs, validates, and brings new products to market.
- Provide new product development support in the Industrial, Commercial, Residential and/or Retail generator or Power Tool product area
- Creating and maintaining CAD models, drawings, and BOMs
- Supporting product development plans (schedule, product cost, meeting design inputs)
- Interfacing with internal company personnel
- Provide technical support for assigned projects
- Specifies precise new product functional requirements
- Designs, tests and integrates standard, less complex components to produce final designs; and evaluates the design's overall effectiveness, cost (including cost/benefit analysis), reliability (risk analysis), and safety
- Designs, develops, executes and evaluates fitness-for-use testing, product specifications and process validation plans for standard products and/or components
- Creates and reviews material part specifications and bills of materials
- Collaborates with internal manufacturing partners, contract manufacturers, designers and product specialists to optimize basic designs for manufacturability
- Utilizes CAD (Computer Aided Design) or CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) systems to model new designs and produce detailed engineering drawings.
- Other Duties as assigned and the following:
- Supporting product development plans (schedule, product cost, meeting design inputs)
- Acts as a resource to more experienced engineers