Senior Mechanical AM Engineer

University of Dayton, Ohio•Dayton, OH

About The Position

Are you interested in working for UDRI, a national leader in scientific and engineering research, serving government, industry and nonprofit customers? UDRI contributes to the fulfillment of the University’s commitments to education, research and public service through the involvement of students, faculty, Staff, and external partners. Established as the research arm of the University of Dayton in 1956, UDRI achieved $2.75 billion in cumulative sponsored research in 2020. Sponsored research for 2022 alone exceeded $220 million. We invite qualified candidates to apply for our Engineer opening! This full time and benefit eligible position offers health, dental and vision insurance, retirement, disability, tuition assistance for you and your dependents, vacation, sick, and holiday pay. Apply today! This position is responsible for providing engineering solutions to a wide range of customer challenges utilizing a variety of advanced manufacturing methods to include additive manufacturing. At a high level, tasks include reverse engineering, CAD design, 2D drawing with focus on application of GD&T, systems engineering, FEA analysis and simulation for selected components/systems. As well, this engineer will be responsible for following all product development process steps and ensure compliance to ISO and AS standards. This role will communicate and collaborate with customers as well as a multi-disciplinary team of manufacturing, operations, testing, quality, materials, and program management members through project completion. Other efforts include but are not limited to mentoring junior engineers, assisting in process improvement efforts, participate in various technical challenges and team support activities. Occasional travel is expected for this role. This role will be working in a highly agile environment in a multifunctional team and therefore, being a team player and having flexibility, adaptability, attention to detail are key to success.

Requirements

BS degree in mechanical, aerospace engineering or related field
8+ years of experience in product development
5+ years of experience with Computer Aided Design software, preferably SolidWorks
5+ years of practical experience in 2D drawing generation, including application of GD&T
Practical experience reverse-engineering products/projects
Familiarity with various manufacturing processes such as casting, forging, extrusion, CNC machining, injection molding, thermoforming, robotics, advanced manufacturing, etc.
Attention to detail and organizational skills
Ability to perform extensive research, catalogue findings during development activities, and write reports for both internal and external use
Effective interpersonal communication and presentation skills with coworkers and clients at all levels
Self-motivation with ability to work with minimal supervision
Successful collaboration within a multi-disciplinary team
Excellent communication skills to include presentation skills
Experience generating job routers and BOM's for part manufacture
Due to requirements of our research contracts with the U.S. federal government, candidates for this position must be a U.S. Citizen

Nice To Haves

5+ years of experience performing FEA analysis using ANSYS to include static and dynamic analysis
Experience with Additive Manufacturing, including print file generation
Experience with failure analysis, root cause determination and corrective action
Experience with Model Based Definition generation (SolidWorks preferred)
MS Degree in mechanical, aerospace engineering or related field
Hands on experience conducting reverse engineering
Experience in ISO certified and/or AS9100 certified facility
Experience writing or providing cost estimates supporting ROM's and proposals
Ability to promote inclusive excellence in the workplace

Responsibilities

providing engineering solutions to a wide range of customer challenges utilizing a variety of advanced manufacturing methods to include additive manufacturing
reverse engineering
CAD design
2D drawing with focus on application of GD&T
systems engineering
FEA analysis and simulation for selected components/systems
following all product development process steps and ensure compliance to ISO and AS standards
communicate and collaborate with customers as well as a multi-disciplinary team of manufacturing, operations, testing, quality, materials, and program management members through project completion
mentoring junior engineers
assisting in process improvement efforts
participate in various technical challenges and team support activities