Mechanical Engineer

Mechanical Engineer

POSTED: September 13, 2024

  • Full Time
  • Brookfield, WI
  • This position has been filled

Laacke & Joys Company

Demonstrate and grow your skills with an Exciting, Diverse, and Growing company!

Job Description

Job Summary

As the Mechanical Engineer, you will provide technical and creative ideas, contribute to projects of high complexity, and ensure product development success by relating and responding to project needs with consistent design methodologies, and creative vision.

Responsibilities

  • Create new product upgrades in existing propriety intensive use Chairs.
  • Design, with the profile from Marketing/sales, a new intensive use chair.
  • Designing and redesigning plastics and foam parts which will be integrated into the existing units and new products.
  • Create all the necessary SolidWorks parts, assemblies, and drawings.
  • Generate all necessary documentation for vendors and production team.
  • Update BOM’s in ERP system to reflect all revision changes on intensive use chair line.
  • Organize files in our PDM vault to maintain current revision levels.
  • Work with manufacturing to maximize the VQC of the upgraded and existing intensive products through the production process.
  • Support marketing department by generating necessary drawings and models for instruction manuals.
  • Introduce new capital equipment that can increase the VQC across the manufacturing process.
  • Present new ideas that will impact the VQC at any point in the manufacturing continuum.

Qualifications

  • BS degree in Mechanical Engineering
  • Minimum of 2-4 years of experience (preferably in a manufacturing setting)
  • Proficient and efficient use of SolidWorks – part, assembly, and drawings knowledge
  • Proficient and comfortable using freeform shapes/surfaces and curves in SolidWorks.
  • Mechanical aptitude, out of the box thinker, self-starter
  • Experience designing parts that will be manufactured using plastic blow, rotational, and injection molding preferred but not required.
  • Ability to work as a teammate with several other functional leaders.
  • Outstanding research and investigative skills.
  • Exceptional analytical skills.
  • Strong communication skills both verbal and written.