Senior Engineer, Mechanical, Poultry

JBT Marel•Redmond, WA

14h•Onsite

About The Position

JBT Marel’s DSI brand R&D department designs, develops, and tests industrial equipment for the food industry, including waterjet cutters, high-speed blade cutters, and robotic harvesting systems. The Senior Engineer, Mechanical helps develop and improve cutting and product-handling equipment through design, analysis, fabrication, testing, and integration of components and prototype machines. The role also supports existing equipment in the field, manufacturing, and customers, and identifies upgrades that can improve customer satisfaction and generate incremental revenue. This is an onsite position with approximately 20% travel. The engineer reports to the Manager-Engineering Poultry.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or equivalent.
At least 5 years of engineering experience, focused on design.
Proficiency in CAD; Autodesk Inventor is preferred, though SolidWorks, ProE, or similar is acceptable.
Strong organizational, negotiating, planning, and influencing skills, both verbal and written.
Project management experience.
Well-structured and organized problem-solving and root-cause-analysis skills.
Ability to travel as needed; the position involves approximately 20% travel.
Must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future.

Responsibilities

Help develop the next generation of cutting and product-handling equipment.
Design, source, fabricate, and test component-level improvements.
Integrate tested components and subassemblies into prototype machine designs.
Analyze new designs using FEA, Mathcad, and accelerated testing in-house and in the field.
Perform risk analysis.
Complete drawing packages and ECNs to integrate new designs into the MRP system.
Support the existing fleet of portioners, harvesting machines, and cutting machines.
Respond to urgent requests from customers, service technicians, and applications engineers.
Refine recommended spare-parts lists and help set initial inventory amounts.
Revise or replace components and subassemblies that need improvement.
Work with manufacturing on ongoing and new builds.
Support prototype builds of subassemblies and full machines, frequently in person.
Support manufacturing engineers and assemblers in person and remotely.
Work with Sourcing, RCI, and QA on pricing, delivery, and quality practices.
Visit customers and understand their needs and issues.
Resolve challenging and complex machine-performance issues.
Identify potential upgrade kits or component improvements that improve customer satisfaction and create incremental revenue; design and document kits.