Mechanical Designer

Mechanical Designer

Job Description

• Creates innovative and practical mechanical and electromechanical concepts and designs for components, assemblies, tools, and products of varying complexity.

• Works closely with engineering, vendors, manufacturing, quality, and customers on design specifications.

• Ensures designs are free of layout process defects.

• May assist engineers with defining design standards and configurations.

• Applies Computer Aided Design (Creo 7) methodologies, theories, and techniques.

• Reviews various completed engineering documents to ensure compliance with engineering and military standards, procedures, specifications, and accuracy of calculations and dimensions.

• Provides expert technical consultation to the division and customer community relative to comprehensive and in-depth knowledge of design and drafting.

• Develops innovative concepts that satisfy functional and operational requirements for existing product lines and new product development programs by utilizing sound design principles and practices.

• Prepares moderately complex design layouts, schematics or sketches (including test plans, procedures, or specifications) of component(s) or a portion of a functional system to satisfy system and integration requirements within cost and producibility constraints.

• Prepares drawing packages to military or equivalent standards.

• Checks completed layouts, drawings, test plans, test reports, procedures, and change history documentation (e.g., engineering change notices) for clarity, completeness, conformance to engineering, military, and industrial standards, procedures, specifications, and codes, and ensures accuracy of calculations and dimensions.

• Evaluates completed drawings, specifications, and procedures for producibility and viability of design, appropriateness of tolerances, fits, finishes, materials, and validates integration of equipment.

• Performs and documents technical calculations such as design evaluations, tolerance studies, mass and section properties, static and dynamic loading.

• Identifies assembly interference, design errors, omissions and other deficiencies, and recommends revisions and/or improvements in design.

• Interfaces with various internal customers to solve moderately complex technical problems.

• May interface with external customers to solve moderately complex technical problems.

Hard Skills

• AAS Degree in Drafting or Design
• 3+ years CREO experience (Ideally 7.0 and newer)
• Experience with sheet metal or plastics
• GD&T

About Actalent

Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 30,000 consultants and more than 4,500 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

At Actalent, diversity and inclusion are a bridge towards the equity and success of our people. DE&I are embedded into our culture through:

• Hiring diverse talent

• Maintaining an inclusive environment through persistent self-reflection

• Building a culture of care, engagement, and recognition with clear outcomes

• Ensuring growth opportunities for our people

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation, such as the modification or adjustment of the job application process or interviewing process due to a disability, please email actalentaccommodation@actalentservices.com for other accommodation options.