Engineer, develop, and prove out product concepts and designs. Design and analyze hydraulic circuits and circuit components for customer applications. Modify, update, or change existing product and component drawings, test procedures, and assembly instructions. Communicate design and development work to other departments via Engineering Change Orders, New Product Releases, Special Project Authorizations, etc. Setup and operate product testing in a laboratory environment. Validate results with mathematical analysis. Review, recommend, direct, and/or create product designs, modifications, and cost estimates and analyze technology, resource needs, and market demand, to plan and assess the feasibility of products and project scope. Coordinate and direct projects, making detailed plans to accomplish goals and directing the integration of technical activities to meet objectives. Consult with customers after the sales department has established initial contact, to discuss all product issues related to form, fit, and function. Set scientific and technical goals within broad outlines provided by top management. Work on, investigate, and report or serve as a resource on projects requiring advanced knowledge of a particular field of specialization.
QUALIFICATIONS
Education and/or Experience Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering 1 to 3 years of Design responsibility for the development and oversight of products Hydraulic circuit design Valve, pump, or motor design Active participation in a hydraulics or SAE society during undergraduate program is highly desired. Language Skills Read, analyze, and interpret engineering designs, drawings, test results and studies, and all other related information pertaining to materials, treatments, processing, and manufacturing. Respond to inquiries or complaints from customers. Write reports and business correspondence. Effectively present information to management and customers. Mathematical Skills Calculate figures and amounts such as proportions, percentages, area, circumference, volume Apply concepts of algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, and other engineering computations dealing with finite element analysis, and material fatigue. Explain mathematical calculations and their relationship to product form, fit, function, limits, and life expectancy. Reasoning Ability Define problems, collect and research data, establish facts, use intuition and experience to complement data, and draw valid conclusions. Interpret an extensive variety of technical, complex, and/or diverse information in mathematical form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables. Physical Demands Occasionally required to reach above shoulders, climb, kneel, or crouch. Frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and capability to occasionally lift and/or to move up to 25 pounds. Using hand tools, assemble and disassemble test-stand set-ups, products, and their installation and come into close contact with various operating fluids required for the test, function, and performance evaluation of products. Other Qualifications Operate a variety of office equipment such as a personal computer, calculator, telephone, fax machine, Operate hoists, cranes, lab and production test stand equipment along with associated devices used for monitoring and measuring all size and performance aspects of a product under development, test or production.
