Principal Mechanical Engineer
- Process Equipment # Principal Mechanical Engineer
- Process Equipment
- Honey Brook, PA
- $115,000
- 130,000 per year
- Full-Time | On-Site
- Achilles is recruiting a
- Principal Mechanical Engineer
- to serve as a senior technical leader for a manufacturer of highly engineered steam and process equipment.
This is an individual-contributor technical leadership role rather than a traditional people-management position. You will be a go-to engineer for a product line involving pressure, steam, mechanical systems, instrumentation, and controls integration. The right person will bring deep mechanical product-design experience and be comfortable helping other engineers solve difficult technical problems while still remaining hands-on with design, calculations, troubleshooting, and product development. ## What Youll Do
- Serve as a senior technical resource for a complex engineered equipment product line
- Lead mechanical design decisions and technical design reviews
- Drive new product development from concept through design, prototyping, validation, and release
- Troubleshoot field issues and lead root-cause analysis
- Improve existing products for reliability, manufacturability, cost, and performance
- Perform and review engineering calculations
- Maintain and review ASME Section VIII calculation packages
- Coordinate mechanical and controls design across integrated equipment systems
- Develop and maintain engineering standards and reusable design practices
- Mentor engineers through technical reviews and hands-on coaching
- Work closely with manufacturing, quality, sales, purchasing, project management, testing, installation, and customers ## What Were Looking For
- 8+ years of machine design, product design, or closely related mechanical engineering experience
- Strong experience with several of the following:
- Steam systems or steam-component selection
- Pressure vessels or high-temperature/high-pressure equipment
- Industrial process equipment
- Pneumatic systems
- Stress or failure calculations
- Instrumentation and sensor selection
- P&IDs
- 3+ years of SolidWorks experience
- Ability to create and review detailed engineering drawings and calculation packages
- Experience setting or maintaining engineering design standards
- Enough controls knowledge to work effectively around PLC/HMI systems, instrumentation, control valves, and I/O
- Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent Experience with autoclaves, sterile-processing equipment, ASME Section VIII, cGMP environments, SolidWorks PDM, welding/GD&T, or pressure equipment is highly valuable.
A Pennsylvania PE license is a plus, but not required. This position is based on-site in Honey Brook, PA.