Senior Design Engineer

Christensen Arms•Gunnison, UT

About The Position

The Senior Design Engineer applies scientific principles to innovate, design, develop, test, and implement technologies, components, subsystems, machines, tooling, and systems. The role ensures designs comply with specifications, requirements, and customer guarantees across applicable operating conditions, and that novel ideas and implementations are captured and protected through applicable intellectual property processes and tools. The engineer designs major components and portions of functional systems, prototypes, and products using computer-aided design, simulation, and other engineering tools. The role develops and improves products and manufacturing operations; evaluates design factors such as manufacturability, material and equipment availability, interchangeability, strength-to-weight efficiency, specifications, and cost; and designs and tests metallic and non-metallic structures, materials, and fabrication processes. The position also manages new product development projects and provides technical leadership to engineering colleagues.

Requirements

At least a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or manufacturing engineering and 10 years of relevant design or manufacturing engineering experience; alternatively, at least 15 years of relevant prior design experience with demonstrated examples of technical engineering proficiency.
Demonstrated leadership, mentorship, and training skills, with the ability to influence others.
Ability to mentor and support a team of primarily intermediate- to experienced-level design and manufacturing engineering professionals.
Ability to set objectives and guide others on approaches to achieve operational results.
Resourceful, creative problem-solving ability and understanding of the scientific method and making design decisions using experimentally derived data.

Nice To Haves

Experience designing firearms.
Experience designing components for metal casting, composites, and plastic injection molding.
A master’s degree in engineering or another technical field.

Responsibilities

Prepare new or revised designs, drawings, and working plans to improve products and facilitate manufacturing operations while meeting agreed product requirements.
Create and present manufacturing plans, using design-for-manufacturing reviews to evaluate the effectiveness, viability, and quality of manufacturing processes.
Develop and execute test plans to ensure product designs meet performance, reliability, cosmetic, and quality requirements.
Provide technical leadership and train less experienced engineers to help them diagnose and solve problems and build their capabilities.
Coordinate with affected organizations to exchange information, ideas, and techniques for product or process design.
Coordinate interrelated manufacturing-process design efforts with other engineering personnel and support project completion.
Consult manufacturing engineering, quality, and supply chain personnel about specifications and the interfaces between hardware and system operational and performance requirements.
Ensure adherence to the engineering budget and use available resources wisely.
Develop data, layouts, sketches, and notes for design proposals.
Investigate design considerations including manufacturability, availability of materials and equipment, interchangeability, replaceability, strength-to-weight efficiency, contractual specifications, and cost.
Design, develop, and test metallic and non-metallic structures and materials and related fabrication processes.
Manage new product development projects.
Capture and protect novel ideas and implementations using applicable intellectual property processes and tools.