Direct hire Mechanical Engineeer

Location: Birmingham, AL. Onsite 5 days a week and travels 50%

Duration: Full time, permanent

Job Description

Senior Mechanical Engineer:

To be successful as a senior mechanical engineer, you should keep abreast of developments in your field and outside of your discipline. Exceptional senior mechanical engineers should constantly be upskilling themselves and be able to work on multiple projects simultaneously.

Expect 50% travel within the southeast

Skills needed for success:

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering is a plus
• 10+ years of experience
• Resume of completed projects in the automotive and conveyance markets.
• Experience integrating mechanical designs into production or test environments.
• Experience working with AutoCAD Inventor, Catia, and MicroStation.
• Basic knowledge and experience working with controls engineers to define appropriate controls design.
• Relevant certifications, registrations, and licenses may be required.
• Superb creativity, vision, and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of blueprints reading and Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing (GD&T) and associated tolerancing.
• Excellent math skills: ability to apply advanced mathematical principles and statistics to solve problems.
• Firm grasp of engineering concepts, and experience designing mechanical systems and products.
• Exceptional technical and problem-solving skills and reasoning ability.
• Ability to communicate effectively and clearly.
• Must be self-motivated and a great team worker.
• Quality focus
• Strong interpersonal skills.

What you'll do:

• Analyzing problems and coming up with designs to solve them.
• Develops designs for tooling, test equipment and machinery related to both production and developmental products. Includes development of specifications, design criteria and drawings.
• Networking and collaborating with other engineers and professionals.
• Support field crews in verifying final installation is per design and specifications.
• Plans, conducts, technically directs, and evaluates projects or tasks, requiring coordination of the efforts of engineers and technical support staff.
• Working within the budget to deliver safe and efficient products on time.
• Works with vendors to produce tooling and associated hardware.
• Integrates hardware into production & research/development cycles.
• Work with customers and technical personnel to ensure requirements are met in production. Sets up prototype equipment and uses experimental materials to test theories/designs developed.
• Discusses progress and interim findings at monthly technical review meetings. Continues with project in original concept, or modifies direction based on commentary and decision of technical review committee.
• Performs specialized programming, design, or analysis of tasks under indirect supervision.
• Follows detailed instructions as to working plans and methods.
• Knowledgeable of applicable concepts, principles, and procedures in task area.
• Prepares product reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends.
• Maintains product and company reputation by complying with government regulations.
• Responsible for formulation of the opinions, decisions, and ultimate performance of the task specified in the statement of work contained in the task order.
• Applies engineering experience to perform functions such as systems integration, configuration management, quality assurance, testing and analysis.
• Must be capable of independently performing high-level assessment and review functions for problems called out in the individual delivery orders and shall be required to provide definitive written and oral results/recommendations for tests that have been conducted.