Mech Design Engr II
Role Overview
• Generate new VE/CE ideas from productivity events, design reviews, BOM reviews, supplier inputs, manufacturing feedback, field issues and benchmarking.
• Check each idea for technical feasibility, cost saving potential, risk, validation needs and implementation effort.
• Convert approved ideas into productivity or savings projects and drive them from concept to implementation.
• Deliver savings while maintaining design intent, product performance, quality, safety and certification compliance.
Key Skills for This Role
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You Must Have
4 to 6 years of relevant Mechanical Design experience in Industrial Automation, Instrumentation, Process Control, Marine or related industry.
Good knowledge of mechanical design principles, product development practices and manufacturing processes.
Experience in product cost reduction, value engineering, productivity or sustaining engineering projects.
Knowledge of Hazardous Area product design and global standards such as IECEx, ATEX, FM and CSA is preferred.
Strong understanding of design calculations, tolerance stack-up, GD&T, DFMEA, DFM and DFA.
Experience with castings, forgings, machined parts, plastics, sheet metal, pressure parts and surface finishing processes.
Hands-on experience in SolidWorks and Creo.
Working experience with Windchill, Teamcenter, PDM/PLM systems and ECO/ECR activities.
Good understanding of NPI and sustaining engineering life cycle.
Ability to work with global engineering, sourcing, quality, manufacturing and supplier teams.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering.
- Able to communicate effectively in English.
- Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering will be an advantage.
- You Must Have
- 4 to 6 years of relevant Mechanical Design experience in Industrial Automation, Instrumentation, Process Control, Marine or related industry.
- Good knowledge of mechanical design principles, product development practices and manufacturing processes.
- Experience in product cost reduction, value engineering, productivity or sustaining engineering projects.
- Strong understanding of design calculations, tolerance stack-up, GD&T, DFMEA, DFM and DFA.
- Experience with castings, forgings, machined parts, plastics, sheet metal, pressure parts and surface finishing processes.
- Hands-on experience in SolidWorks and Creo.
- Working experience with Windchill, Teamcenter, PDM/PLM systems and ECO/ECR activities.
- Good understanding of NPI and sustaining engineering life cycle.
- Ability to work with global engineering, sourcing, quality, manufacturing and supplier teams.
- Additional Qualifications
- Lean or Six Sigma exposure will be an advantage.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Practical engineering thinking with a cost-conscious mindset.
- Self-driven, accountable and comfortable working independently.
- Good team player with strong stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to convert ideas into executable projects and close them with measurable savings.
- Success Measures
- Number of VE/CE ideas generated and converted into savings projects.
- Annual savings delivered against business commitments.
- On-time completion of productivity projects and ECO releases.
- Successful implementation of alternate sources, design changes, localization and product simplification projects.
- Savings delivered without impact to quality, reliability, certification or customer requirements.
Additional Qualifications
Knowledge of Process Automation products and applications will be an added advantage.
Experience in VE/CE, localization, alternate sourcing, should-cost or supplier productivity projects is preferred.
Lean or Six Sigma exposure will be an advantage.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Practical engineering thinking with a cost-conscious mindset.
Self-driven, accountable and comfortable working independently.
Good team player with strong stakeholder management skills.
Ability to convert ideas into executable projects and close them with measurable savings.
Success Measures
Number of VE/CE ideas generated and converted into savings projects.
Annual savings delivered against business commitments.
On-time completion of productivity projects and ECO releases.
Successful implementation of alternate sources, design changes, localization and product simplification projects.
Savings delivered without impact to quality, reliability, certification or customer requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Directly accountable for:
- Identify and execute Value Engineering and Component Engineering opportunities for Process Automation products.
- Review product designs, drawings, BOMs and manufacturing processes to find cost, quality, manufacturability and supply continuity improvements.
- Generate new cost saving ideas through product teardown, benchmarking, supplier discussions, plant inputs and engineering reviews.
- Evaluate ideas for savings value, technical feasibility, certification impact, quality risk and implementation timeline.
- Prepare simple business cases for approved ideas and convert them into productivity or savings projects.
- Lead execution of savings projects from idea stage through design update, validation, qualification, ECO release and implementation.
- Support alternate material, alternate supplier, localization, part commonization and design optimization projects.
- Perform engineering assessments to make sure proposed changes meet product performance, reliability, safety and customer requirements.
- Prepare and review 2D production drawings, 3D CAD models, design calculations, DFMEA, tolerance stack-up, qualification documents, ECN packages and technical reports.
- Support certification and qualification impact assessments for design changes, including HazLoc products where applicable.
- Work with sourcing and suppliers to evaluate alternate components, manufacturing processes and cost reduction proposals.
- Support root cause analysis and corrective actions for product, manufacturing and field issues where design changes are needed.
- Participate in design reviews and provide practical recommendations focused on cost, manufacturability, reliability and quality.
- Support annual productivity and margin improvement goals for the Process Automation business.
- Drive product simplification, component standardization and part commonization wherever practical.
- Support obsolescence mitigation, alternate source qualification and supply risk reduction activities.
- Work with plants and suppliers to improve manufacturing process, assembly time and part cost.
- Use standard engineering and business processes for design change, validation and release.
- Provide regular updates to stakeholders on project status, risks, action items and savings realization.
Additional Position Accountabilities
Support annual productivity and margin improvement goals for the Process Automation business.
Drive product simplification, component standardization and part commonization wherever practical.
Support obsolescence mitigation, alternate source qualification and supply risk reduction activities.
Work with plants and suppliers to improve manufacturing process, assembly time and part cost.
Use standard engineering and business processes for design change, validation and release.
Provide regular updates to stakeholders on project status, risks, action items and savings realization.
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of Hazardous Area product design and global standards such as IECEx, ATEX, FM and CSA is preferred.
- Knowledge of Process Automation products and applications will be an added advantage.
- Experience in VE/CE, localization, alternate sourcing, should-cost or supplier productivity projects is preferred.
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