What are the responsibilities and job description for the Metal Foundry Design Engineer position at ME Global Inc. dba ME Elecmetal?
Who We Are
ME Global Inc. is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN and operates two foundries in North America located in Tempe, AZ and Duluth, MN. With more than 100 years of manufacturing excellence and over 1,000 employees across five continents, we are a global leader in producing high-performance metal castings for the mining, aggregate, and recycling industries.
Our products include grinding media, mill liners, crushing liners, and slag pots engineered with proprietary alloys and designs used by customers in more than 40 countries.
If you're looking for a challenging engineering career where you can make a direct impact on manufacturing, we invite you to join our team.
Position Summary
ME Global is seeking a hands-on Foundry Design Engineer to support the design, development, and continuous improvement of cast metal components, tooling, patterns, gating systems, risering, and manufacturing processes.
This position is ideal for an engineer who enjoys solving production challenges, collaborating with manufacturing teams, and developing practical casting solutions from concept through production. You will work closely with Engineering, Quality, Production, the Pattern Shop, and customers to ensure castings meet dimensional, metallurgical, quality, and cost objectives.
Key Responsibilities
- Review customer drawings, specifications, and 3D models for manufacturability.
- Design and improve casting layouts, patterns, core boxes, gating systems, risers, chills, and tooling.
- Create and modify CAD models and manufacturing drawings.
- Support mold filling and solidification simulations to improve casting quality and reduce scrap.
- Troubleshoot casting defects, dimensional issues, and production concerns with manufacturing and quality teams.
- Recommend design improvements that increase castability and reduce manufacturing costs.
- Support new product launches, sample castings, process documentation, and production standards.
- Assist estimating and quoting by evaluating tooling, cores, yields, weights, heat treatment, and finishing requirements.
- Maintain engineering documentation and product master data.
- Promote a culture focused on safety, quality, and continuous improvement.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering, Materials Science, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Experience in a metal foundry, casting operation, pattern shop, tooling environment, or heavy manufacturing preferred.
- Knowledge of sand casting processes, mold design, cores, gating, risering, shrinkage, solidification, heat treatment, and casting defects.
- Experience with CAD software including SolidWorks, AutoCAD, Inventor, Creo, or similar.
- Experience with casting simulation software such as MAGMASOFT is a plus.
- Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, GD&T, and customer specifications.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and project management skills.
- Comfortable working in both office and foundry production environments.
- Self-motivated with the ability to work effectively across multiple departments.
Why Join ME Global?
- Competitive compensation
- Quarterly performance bonus opportunities
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Excellent retirement program with strong company contributions
- Three weeks of vacation
- Eleven paid holidays
- Forty-eight hours of paid sick time annually
- Opportunities for professional growth within a global organization
- Long-term career stability with a company serving the mining industry for more than 100 years
Join a company with a century of innovation and help shape the next generation of world-class cast products. Apply today to become part of the ME Global team.
Salary : $100,000 - $130,000