Mechanical Engineer

Essential functions:

• Performing calculations to meet design requirements as pertains to pressure, flow, heat removal, etc. to establish baseline system design parameters and material and labor cost estimates.
• Developing schematics, bills of material and layouts for both hydraulic and supporting electrical systems.
• Producing detailed drawings for vendor fabricated equipment such as reservoirs and other components.
• Providing customer instructional tools to include:
• Working schematics of hydraulic and electrical systems for fabrication and start up, as well as layouts and mounting instructions and dimensions.
• Various operating data such as oil pressure and flow settings, electrical point to point connections, etc.
• roviding technical guidance and assistance and working collaboratively with staff throughout the company including:
• Providing technical assistance to inside and outside salespersons, shop foreman and other shop personnel.
• Providing technical assistance to personnel as pertains to fitting and component selection, system layout, piping and other fabrication practices.
• Assisting parts coordinator with conversions of unavailable components to meet deliveries.
• Providing troubleshooting assistance and corrective action to fabricators during testing.
• Performing field service supervision and start up assistance as required to complete the overall project start up and operation requirements.
• Participating in the quality improvement process as warranted.
• Providing project management support to include:
• Monitoring, maintaining and revising project budgets to reflect the actual project costs.
• Suggesting technical improvements to projects and quote change-orders. 
• Implementing, coordinating and completing change-order work. 
• Communicating with multiple sub-contractors to coordinate work and maintain the overall project schedule.
• Providing on-site technical support / field supervision to ensure that work is performed properly and in a timely manner by the appropriate tradespersons.
• Maintaining project documentation and collecting sub-contractor field test data/reports in order to meet project submittal requirements.
• Attending weekly project status meetings in order to report current work process to the customer and coordinate upcoming work with all parties (i.e. customer, contractor, sub-contractors, and tradespersons).
• Responding to off-hour phone calls for technical support.
• Ability to develop PLC based control logic programming for various process control functions dictated by customer operating requirements a plus.

Education, Experience, Skills

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering
• Demonstrated experience working in a manufacturing environment (preferably with hydraulic systems).
• Ability to develop hydraulic schematics, select material and guide technicians in fabricating hydraulic systems.
• Understanding of relay logic industrial control panel design with ability to develop electrical schematics, select material and guide technicians in fabricating control panels.
• Proven attention to detail, excellent communicator and customer service oriented.