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Mechanical Engineer I - Engine Design

Generac
Waukesha, WI Full Time
POSTED ON 4/14/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/11/2026
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

  • Bachelor of Science in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or related Engineering discipline
  • At least 3 months of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with 3D modeling to include Creo or SolidWorks
  • Experience with machine design

Essential Duties

  • 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

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