Senior Mechanical Engineer

Job Purpose

Designing, developing, and testing new products. Managing projects, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring products meet design specifications and quality standards throughout the development process.

Key Responsibilities

• Demonstrate with minimal direction the attributes of good planning, driving for results, customer focus (both internal and external), good creativity, and problem solving abilities, in addition to good written and oral communication skills
• Develop modular approach to hardware design and architecture
• Generate concepts and develop detailed designs for the mechanical systems
• Conduct detailed engineering analyses on components and sub-assemblies
• Proactively assess the technical risks and resolve the design issues by providing reliable solutions
• Ensure quality is built into designs and driven through product development
• Develop a mechanical timeline for their own developments and is accountable for it.
• Support project planning and execute design implementation.
• Deliver module designs based on planned cost, schedule and quality
• Develop test methodology, experimentation, prototype to verify design.
• Work in close support of the marketing department in the analysis of customer need (VOC) and in the development of product specifications.
• Translate product requirements into a functional system
• Work with manufacturing team to support injection molding, gear design, machining, sheet metal and assembly
• Participate in other aspects of the product development such as : solving manufacturing issues, product performance, repair issues, product improvements, and value engineering
• Work cross-functionally with internal team and other core disciplines (EE, Firmware, Software, Marketing)
• Ability to apply advanced mechanical engineering principles and theories to complex issues.
• Mentor and coach junior engineers on project basis

Requisite Criteria

• A Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering with minimum 8 years of relevant professional experience in mechanical design.
• Candidate must have full experience in product development from conceptualization to mass production.
• Knowledge of mechanical engineering design principles and practice
• Experience designing complex mechanisms, such as clutches, gear trains, cams, and linkages
• Knowledge of electro-mechanical components such as motors, power transmission and sensors
• Expertise in the design of plastic, sheet metal, gear design, die-cast parts, rubber, electro-mechanical & mechanism parts/assemblies
• Fluent in SolidWorks CAD software or/and FEA
• Sound knowledge of Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing
• Knowledge of Design of Experiments and Six Sigma is preferred
• Competence with analytical techniques such as Design for Failure Modes and Effects Analysis, Design for Assembly, Design for Manufacturing, and Pugh Matrix is preferred

Skills

• Good command of English in both written & spoken
• Must have strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Energizing, self-motivated and independent
• Very customer oriented
• Good ability to multitask
• Strong analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills
• Good team player among internal and cross functional team