Senior Mechanical Engineer

Senior Mechanical Engineer Job Description

Objectives:

Do you want to serve a higher purpose?

Are you looking for a career and not just another job?

The people at Industrial Scientific are making a difference. We believe that great people working with great tools in a supportive environment will deliver better products and services and do their best work for our customers. Our leaders understand the critical elements of breakthrough performance: bringing out the best in people; creating a climate of trust, openness and high performance; fostering candor and initiative; and treating people fairly and with dignity. Industrial Scientific provides the environment, leadership and support that enable employees to exceed their career expectations.

Industrial Scientific's product development team includes skilled engineers, designers and technicians in the disciplines of electrical, mechanical, and firmware engineering.  Third-party design partners are used (both locally and abroad) to augment our in-house team or to provide specific expertise. For the most part, we build what we design – often in our modern manufacturing factory right here in Western Pennsylvania.

We design and develop a wide variety of world-class gas detection instruments, sensors, accessories and infrastructure for worker connectivity and remote management. Our designs include the latest mixed-signal embedded computing technology, mechanical packaging, miniaturization, and compelling user-interfaces.  We partner with a dedicated, in-house application software team providing feature-rich web-based applications that help our customers keep their workers safe. 

A Senior Mechanical Engineer is a skilled engineering professional who contributes to our engineering design projects. This person will often participate in the ISC Stage-Gate Product Development Process as a Mechanical Engineer.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

This position is responsible for the detailed mechanical design throughout the Product Development life-cycle. This position may occasionally be involved in Enhancement & Sustaining projects for ISC legacy products. This position is expected to work closely with various cross-functional groups to fully assure a properly designed product from concept to production. 

The duties may include, but are not limited to:

• Designing mechanical components and assemblies such as enclosures and pneumatics, electrical hardware packaging and accessories to meet product goals including certifications
• Optimize designs utilizing materials and manufacturing process knowledge
• Define and execute system level specifications and requirements
• Establishing strategic direction of mechanical designs
• Developing technical design documentation, including analyses
• Troubleshooting of new and legacy designs
• Follow, enforce and mature the corporate engineering processes
• Lead design reviews, prototyping and testing activities
• Champion design for manufacturability, reliability and serviceability
• Designing legacy product upgrades
• Training in the technical use and servicing of new designs
• Collaborative participation in cross-functional product development teams
• Act as central liaison with quality assurance during product testing

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum BSME from an accredited engineering college or university
• Minimum 2+ year's experience in product development, mechanical engineering or hardware design
• Ability to produce high quality parametric models and detailed drawings using linear dimensioning and GD&T
• Demonstrated experience with injection-molded plastic design and broad understanding of molding material properties
• Demonstrated experience with CAD Solid modeling
• Experience in project management
• Self-starter with the ability to work as part of a team while also meeting individual responsibilities

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in electronics packaging design and manufacturing
• Understanding of injection molding tooling and processes, including multi-shot and insert molding
• Demonstrated experience with Creo or ProE CAD software
• Experience with Finite Element Analysis (FEA) – ideally using ANSYS Mechanical and/or Autodesk Moldflow
• Experience with Windchill PLM, JIRA and JAMA (requirements management tool)
• Experience using statistical analysis models
• Demonstrated understanding of safety-critical system design in a regulated industry.
• Experience in regulated industries (e.g. medical devices, aerospace, automotive).

Soft Skills:

• Able to work effectively in a formal product development team environment
• Able to exercise independent, sound judgment and decision making
• Able to commit to and work under deadlines
• Ability to use analytical thinking. 
• Demonstrated understanding of Stage-Gate development process
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Manage third party on and off-shore development teams when needed