Design Engineer

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Engineer, develop, and prove out product concepts and designs.
• Design and analyze hydraulic circuits and circuit components for customer applications.
• Modify, update, or change existing product and component drawings, test procedures, and assembly instructions.
• Communicate design and development work to other departments via Engineering Change Orders, New Product Releases, Special Project Authorizations, etc.
• Setup and operate product testing in a laboratory environment. Validate results with mathematical analysis.
• Review, recommend, direct, and/or create product designs, modifications, and cost estimates and analyze technology, resource needs, and market demand, to plan and assess the feasibility of products and project scope.
• Coordinate and direct projects, making detailed plans to accomplish goals and directing the integration of technical activities to meet objectives.
• Consult with customers after the sales department has established initial contact, to discuss all product issues related to form, fit, and function.
• Set scientific and technical goals within broad outlines provided by top management.
• Work on, investigate, and report or serve as a resource on projects requiring advanced knowledge of a particular field of specialization.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Education and/or Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering
• 1 to 3 years of
  • Design responsibility for the development and oversight of products
  • Hydraulic circuit design
  • Valve, pump, or motor design
• Active participation in a hydraulics or SAE society during undergraduate program is highly desired.

Language Skills

• Read, analyze, and interpret engineering designs, drawings, test results and studies, and all other related information pertaining to materials, treatments, processing, and manufacturing.  
• Respond to inquiries or complaints from customers.  
• Write reports and business correspondence. 
• Effectively present information to management and customers.

Mathematical Skills

• Calculate figures and amounts such as proportions, percentages, area, circumference, volume
• Apply concepts of algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, and other engineering computations dealing with finite element analysis, and material fatigue. 
• Explain mathematical calculations and their relationship to product form, fit, function, limits, and life expectancy.

Reasoning Ability

• Define problems, collect and research data, establish facts, use intuition and experience to complement data, and draw valid conclusions.  
• Interpret an extensive variety of technical, complex, and/or diverse information in mathematical form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Physical Demands

• Occasionally required to reach above shoulders, climb, kneel, or crouch. 
• Frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and capability to occasionally lift and/or to move up to 25 pounds. 
• Using hand tools, assemble and disassemble test-stand set-ups, products, and their installation and come into close contact with various operating fluids required for the test, function, and performance evaluation of products. 

Other Qualifications

• Operate a variety of office equipment such as a personal computer, calculator, telephone, fax machine, 
• Operate hoists, cranes, lab and production test stand equipment along with associated devices used for monitoring and measuring all size and performance aspects of a product under development, test or production.