Mechanical Engineer 3

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office, Some degree of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) required (safety glasses, gowning, gloves, lab coat, ear plugs etc.)

Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Position Summary

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, our work enables customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. As a Mechanical Engineer III, you will be part of Value Analysis / Value Engineering (VAVE) initiatives, drive cost reduction strategies focusing on vibration and structural dynamics,  acoustics, and noise control of our scientific instruments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and optimize mechanical systems and assemblies with emphasis on vibration control, structural dynamics, and acoustic performance for high-precision scientific instruments.
• Perform vibration, structural dynamics, and acoustic analyses to optimize system performance using FEA tools.
• Design noise reduction and damping solutions using appropriate materials and engineering techniques.
• Support system integration and ensure mechanical designs meet performance, quality, manufacturability, and reliability requirements.
• Vibration/acoustic troubleshooting, including environmental/floor vibration and airborne excitation, experimental characterization, and correlation of measurements with analytical/FEA models
• Lead Value Analysis/Value Engineering (VAVE) initiatives to reduce product cost while maintaining or improving performance and quality.
• Identify opportunities for design simplification, material optimization, component standardization, and manufacturing improvements.
• Provide technical guidance in vibration and acoustic engineering across multiple product platforms.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to technical capability development.
• Support design reviews, risk assessments, DFMEA, and engineering change activities.
• Collaborate effectively with global engineering teams and external suppliers

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's/Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• 9+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Strong experience in vibration engineering, structural dynamics, and acoustics.
• Precision machine design proficiency, design for stiffness, controlling degrees of freedom, error budgeting, sensor selection, material selection, GD&T, design for manufacturability.
• Strong physics-based problem solving and structural dynamics fundamentals over expertise with a particular FEA package
• Experience using FEA tools such as ANSYS, Abaqus, COMSOL, or Nastran.
• Experience with CAD tools such as Creo, SolidWorks, or UG.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with high-precision scientific, analytical, semiconductor, medical device, or industrial equipment.
• Knowledge on structural dynamics, modal analysis, harmonics, noise control and damping materials

Preferred Competencies

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to interpret complex simulation and experimental data.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively in global cross-functional teams.
• Strong organizational and project execution skills.
• Continuous improvement mindset with focus on innovation and engineering excellence.