Senior Mechanical Engineer

Qualifications

• The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following skills and experience:
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline.
• Product development experience within industrial, electronics, instrumentation, automation, communications, or related industries.
• Strong experience designing electromechanical assemblies and industrial product enclosures containing embedded electronics, communications hardware, sensors, and power systems.
• Expert-level proficiency using SolidWorks or equivalent 3D CAD platforms.
• Extensive experience applying thermal management techniques including conduction, convection, radiation, airflow management, heatsinks, thermal interfaces, and environmental derating.
• Strong understanding of structural mechanics, vibration, fatigue, shock loading, mechanical reliability, and environmental robustness.
• Proven experience using simulation and analysis tools to support product development and design validation.
• Experience supporting environmental qualification testing and reliability verification activities.
• Strong knowledge of sheet metal, machined, cast, moulded, fabricated, and injection-moulded component design.
• Strong understanding of GD&T, tolerance analysis, materials selection, DFMA, and engineering best practices.
• Experience managing product structures, Bills of Materials (BOMs), engineering documentation, and design releases within PLM systems.
• Hands-on experience working with PLM and ERP systems such as Oracle Agile PLM, Oracle Cloud PLM, Windchill, Teamcenter, Arena, or similar platforms.
• Experience using SolidWorks PDM, Autodesk Vault, or similar engineering data management systems for revision control, configuration management, and product releases.
• Strong experience managing ECR, ECO, ECN, deviation, waiver, and product release workflows.
• Experience developing customer-specific product modifications, configurable product variants, and engineered solutions for industrial products.
• Experience conducting root-cause analysis and resolving complex product design, manufacturing, and field issues.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, leadership, and technical communication skills.
• Ability to work independently while contributing effectively within cross-functional engineering teams.

Preferred Skills

• Experience developing products for the electrical power, utility, industrial automation, monitoring, or critical infrastructure sectors.
• Extensive experience with Finite Element Analysis (FEA) for structural, stress, vibration, shock, and modal analysis.
• Extensive experience with thermal modelling, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), and thermal simulation tools.
• Experience with ANSYS Mechanical, ANSYS Icepak, SolidWorks Simulation, Creo Simulate, COMSOL, Siemens NX Simulation, or equivalent engineering analysis tools.
• Experience designing products to withstand harsh industrial, transportation, seismic, shock, and vibration environments.
• Strong understanding of vibration isolation techniques, damping strategies, structural reinforcement methods, and environmental mitigation approaches.
• Experience designing products requiring IP-rated environmental protection and long-term outdoor deployment.
• Experience supporting accelerated life testing, HALT, HASS, reliability growth, and failure analysis activities.
• Experience supporting compliance and regulatory activities including UL, CE, IEC, IEEE, RoHS, and REACH requirements.
• Experience supporting manufacturing transfers, supplier qualification, contract manufacturers, and global supply chains.
• Experience integrating CAD, PLM, and ERP systems to support efficient engineering and manufacturing workflows.
• Experience supporting customer-specific solutions, configurable product architectures, engineered-to-order (ETO) products, application engineering activities, and technical proposal development.
• Familiarity with Python, engineering automation tools, simulation scripting, or AI-assisted engineering workflows.
• Experience using JIRA, Confluence, and modern product development processes.

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