Mechanical Engineer(Contract)
Schaumburg, IL
Job Requisition: 7337
Hourly Pay Range: $40.50. Individual salaries are based on education, geographic location, and alignment to the market data.
Description for Mechanical Engineer:
The RF Site Hardware team is an organization within the Products and Solutions group of Client. Our team is responsible for developing and maintaining sophisticated and highly reliable communications, infrastructure, and networking products for Mission Critical and commercial communication products across a variety of global markets and standards. The RF Site Hardware Engineering team develops state of the art Digital, RF, Mechanical and Power Supply solutions to meet our customer’s needs.
This is a product design and development position designing and providing support of highly sophisticated and reliable communications infrastructure products for professional and mission critical markets. Engineers in this position will function primarily as a mechanical engineer supporting quality issues, and cost or process improvements of existing product lines, but may also contribute to larger team projects and new product development
Responsibilities for Mechanical Engineer:
- Identifying and or executing cost reductions of part designs and existing products.
- Supporting part change requests and quality issues identified by vendors.
- Supporting factory quality and process issues and providing feedback to resolve.
- Working with suppliers and commodity teams to meet cost and lead-time goals for tooling and piece parts.
- Setting up and maintaining bills of materials and releasing mechanical prints.
- Performing mechanical verification tests per product specifications and writing test reports.
- Preparing concept and prototype designs of mechanical systems as well as hands on design and analysis of individual parts and components.
- Modeling complex component and assembly designs using advanced 3D CAD tools, and interpreting and generating 2D drawings per mechanical drafting standards.
- Understanding and analysis of tolerances and effects on design.
- Preparing concept and prototype designs of mechanical systems as well as hands on design and analysis of individual parts and components, that meets customer requirements and expectations, reliability and robustness requirements, manufacturing processes and safety guidelines.
- Modeling complex component and assembly designs using advanced 3D CAD tools, and interpreting and generating 2D drawings per mechanical drafting standards.
- Designing and conducting experiments using statistical tools and techniques to confirm analyses, evaluating new or existing designs to conform to product specifications.
- Understanding and analysis of tolerances and effects on design.
- Working with suppliers and commodity teams to meet cost and lead-time goals for tooling and piece parts.
Requirements for Mechanical Engineer:
- Hands-on experience with 3D modeling and surfacing software, Creo Parametric (Pro/Engineer) or equivalent, to design components and assemblies.
- Familiarity and understanding of design and manufacturing of parts such as:
- Die casting, machining, sheet metal and stampings, plastic injection molding, compression molded rubber, connectors, cables, and printed circuit board assemblies.
- Degree required: Bachelor’s in mechanical engineering or related field.
- Must have 2-3 years of experience with PTC Creo.
- Must understand basic of designing
- Understanding of tolerances, drawing dimensioning schemes, tolerance analysis.
- Understanding of Bill of Materials and assembly specifications.
- Works autonomously but able to work effectively with other engineers within mechanical and other disciplines (electrical engineering, procurement, manufacturing, etc…).
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Quick learner
- Strong comprehension skills
- There may be occasional lifting or prototypes for testing or lab support. 25 pounds max
- Must be eligible to work in the United States without sponsorship
Nice-to-Haves for Mechanical Engineer:
- Previous experience with PCB assembly processes and techniques.
- Previous experience designing sheet metal, die castings and cable assemblies is preferred.
- Familiarity with statistical tolerance analysis.
- Familiarity with Oracle Agile PLM.
- Ability to perform hand or FEA calculations for stress and thermal. Demonstrated experience in Finite Element Analysis for structural and heat transfer applications highly desirable.
- Use of test equipment such as thermal imaging, thermal scanners, air flow analysis and strain gauge tools. Ability to work with other engineers within mechanical and other disciplines (electrical engineering, procurement, manufacturing, etc…).
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects.
- Generates concise and comprehensive design and test report documents.
- Summarizes complex technical concepts clearly.
- Good writing and communication skills.
Benefits for Mechanical Engineer:
- Comprehensive medical and dental insurance
- 401(k) plan eligibility after 6 months of employment
- Paid Time Off accrual
