What are the responsibilities and job description for the Mechanical Engineer position at Norican Group?
Join Norican Group – Where Innovation Meets Excellence!
Position: Mechanical Engineer
Location: LaGrange, GA
About Us:
Norican Group is the proud home to six leading, globally operating brands: DISA, Italpresse Gauss, StrikoWestofen, Wheelabrator, Monitizer, and Simpson, all supported by our dedicated Norican digital data engineers. As one strong global partner, we serve our customers better, faster, and more efficiently, providing them with access to all we have to offer. From melting, dosing, and molding through to surface preparation, we provide solutions to solve our customers’ challenges.
Why Join Us?
- Global Network: Be part of a global network of engineering expertise, manufacturing capacity, and service support.
- Innovation: Work with the latest knowledge and know-how to keep our customers performing at their best.
- Sustainability: We lead for sustainability, ensuring the company’s long-term success and viability by innovating in all that we do.
- Diversity & Teamwork: Embrace and build on diversity and teamwork. Our differences make us strong, and we value diverse voices and perspectives.
- Commitment: Deliver on commitments to all stakeholders, increasing profit and sustainability for our customers, creating a safe and enjoyable working environment, and treating suppliers fairly.
- Employee Development: Develop your potential and excellence. We invest in and grow your capabilities, giving you the confidence and trust to make changes and rewarding achievers and learners.
Benefits:
• Employer paid health insurance options
• Employer paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability coverage
• Employer paid life insurance
• Employer paid critical illness and accidental coverage
• 401k with employer match
• Paid vacation and sick time
• Paid holidays
• Annual bonus opportunity
Position Purpose
Under general direction, initiates, plans, designs, and oversees major equipment modernization projects to meet customer requirements. Projects will be completed in accordance with existing Wheelabrator Engineering design practices and standards.
Job Functions
- Develop design concepts, calculations, layouts, assemblies, pneumatic schematics, ventilation layouts, and detail drawings. Create associated bills of material.
- Review sales order, customer specifications and related documents to ensure the design meets customer requirements. Attend order launch meetings.
- Prepare required forms including partial releases, final releases, revision releases, customer adjustments, approval prints, certified prints, EQST/assembly list, and other forms required by ISO procedures and work instructions.
- Update machine manuals in accordance with EMP orders.
- Interact with the plant and field representatives to resolve design related issues. Some travel may be required to verify EMP fit-up and requirements.
- Collaborate with Electrical Engineers on the application and operation of specific designs.
- Coordinate and interface with other departments to effect solutions associated with Wheelabrator aftermarket business. This may include loading or classifying parts, providing technical assistance to sales or customers, and updating or improving obsolete designs to facilitate completion of customer orders.
- Stay updated with latest CAD technologies and may provide technical training and support to CAD users
- Perform special projects and duties as required.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's Degree (four-year college or university) in Mechanical Engineering preferred
- 5 years related experience preferred
- Strong skills in 2D and 3D design software and Windows Office applications.
- Understand and utilize fundamental design practices and demonstrate experience in product design using CAD and/or three-dimensional modeling software.
- Understanding and experience in stress calculations and machine drive calculations, pneumatic and hydraulic components and controls, standard welding practices, bill of material structure, and revision of control environment
- Strong emphasis as a team player that thrives in a team environment and presents themselves in professional manner.