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Senior Mechanical Engineer

Massman Companies
Madison, WI Other
POSTED ON 8/14/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 9/12/2026
Description

Design the machines behind the products people use every day.

At Ideal Pase, our engineers don't just design components-they create complete automated machines that turn an empty container into a finished product ready for the consumer. Our equipment helps package products from brands you probably already have in your kitchen, garage, or laundry room-from premium paints, hot sauces, olive oils, and food products to laundry detergents, wines, adhesives, and countless other liquids.

As a Senior Mechanical Engineer, you'll take technical ownership of sophisticated liquid-filling automation from initial concept through customer acceptance. Every application presents a new engineering challenge: How do we accurately fill a difficult product? How do we accommodate an unusual container? How do we increase speed without sacrificing precision? And how do mechanical systems, servo motion, pneumatics, instrumentation, electrical hardware, and controls come together as one reliable, high-performance machine?

You'll be one of the engineers answering those questions-and turning the answers into real equipment.

You'll lead the engineering effort from project kick-off through design, build, testing, and customer acceptance. Along the way, you'll collaborate directly with customers, manufacturing teams, controls engineers, suppliers, and other technical specialists. You'll make key design decisions, lead technical reviews, solve real-world problems as machines come to life on our production floor, and help ensure each system delivers on its performance, quality, cost, and schedule commitments.

Ideal Pase, the liquid-filling business unit of Massman Companies, is growing across our operations in Eagan, Minnesota and Madison, Wisconsin. We're looking for an experienced machine designer who wants more than a steady stream of CAD assignments. This is an opportunity to take technical ownership of complex machinery, solve challenging automation problems, influence how our next generation of equipment is designed, and experience the satisfaction of watching machines you helped create produce real products for real customers.

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Requirements

Highly qualified applicants will require the following qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Robotics, Automation, Manufacturing Engineering, Electromechanical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
  • 8 years of experience designing complex automated production machinery; 10 years preferred. Experience with packaging, liquid filling, robotics, material handling, process equipment, or similar industrial automation is highly valued.
  • Advanced mechanical design and SOLIDWORKS expertise, including complex assemblies, mechanisms, servo-driven motion, pneumatics, precision components, tooling, manufacturing drawings, BOMs, and technical documentation.
  • Strong systems-level engineering and problem-solving capability, with experience integrating mechanical designs with controls, electrical systems, sensors, instrumentation, robotics, and other automation technologies.
  • Demonstrated senior-level technical leadership and engineering judgment, with the ability to balance customer requirements, standardization, manufacturability, reliability, cost, and maintainability while effectively collaborating across engineering, manufacturing, sales, suppliers, and customers.

Salary : $85,000 - $120,000

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