Senior Design Engineer
WENGER CORPORATION•San Antonio, TX
•$90,000 - $120,000•Onsite
About The Position
At Texas Scenic Company, a Wenger Corporation brand, the Senior Design Engineer helps deliver an exceptional customer experience by leading new product development, product improvement, and cost-reduction projects. The role includes project leadership, evaluating customer requirements, concept development, and product design. The engineer works with product managers and cross-functional teams to develop customer and functional requirements, coordinate development, validate designs, support manufacturing processes, and provide technical leadership for product customization.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, Agricultural Engineering, or a related engineering field.
- Five years of progressive product engineering experience.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering.
- SolidWorks experience.
- Proficiency with finite element analysis (FEA) software and stress calculations.
- Ability to conceptualize and formulate design possibilities and coordinate project-team development under time and financial constraints.
- Commitment to effective project leadership, coordination, and evaluation, including recommending changes to improve overall results.
- Music or theater background or interest.
Responsibilities
- Develop detailed customer requirements and corresponding product functional requirements in collaboration with the Product Manager.
- Lead multifunctional project teams to accomplish project goals.
- Encourage ideas for new products, product improvements, and cost reductions.
- Conduct engineering analysis, including strength calculations, design layouts, fits and tolerances, and CAD modeling.
- Review code compliance of custom products for use in various locations.
- Oversee accelerated product life-cycle tests and evaluate field testing and potential product misuse.
- Provide complete, documented product and engineering specifications in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
- Support new manufacturing processes for products under the role’s responsibility.
- Guide drafting and modeling by others during new product development.
- Provide technical leadership for standard product customization efforts.
- Recommend product changes to improve sales potential or reduce cost.
- Provide technical writing support for manuals and instructions.
- Coordinate and execute product development tasks with other departments, including product design and calculations, design reviews, validation testing, DFMEA, DFM, prototype development, accelerated life-cycle and environmental testing, engineering specification development, preproduction support, and field testing at beta sites.
Benefits
- Paid time off.
- Nine paid holidays.
- Generous profit sharing.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Health savings, flexible spending, and dependent care flexible spending accounts.
- Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance.
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match.
- Company-paid life insurance.
- Supplemental life insurance.
- Employee assistance program.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
