Staff Mechanical Engineer

The Engineer IV – Staff Mechanical Engineer

is responsible for providing engineering input to the product development projects assigned to him/her including interfacing with the cross functional team consisting of engineering, operations (industrial engineering, production, and material procurement), sourcing, quality, service, and marketing.

- Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or related discipline; - 7+ years of relevant work experience;

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience in systems engineering and new product design and development.

- Able to solve complex engineering problems utilizing 8D methodology.

- Strong technical skills to include 3D modeling in Creo.

- Experience in volume manufacturing of outdoor power equipment or other machinery related industries

- Experience with machine design, fabricated components, weldments, stampings, machining, belt systems

- Advanced knowledge of GD&T and assembly tolerance analysis

- Advance knowledge of Design for Assembly and Design for Cost

- Design experience with a variety of materials (ie plastics, steel, aluminum) and basic knowledge of material specs and use.

- Ability to conduct basic analysis using DFMEA, FEA, & hand calculations

- Applies engineering knowledge and experience to improve products, services and processes.

- Ability to perform detail-oriented work with a high degree of accuracy on multiple projects of increasing complexity

- Previous experience with SAP or equivalent ERP.

- Ability to translate technical information to all audiences.

- Strong written communication and presentation skills.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

- Designs, validates, and brings new products to market.

- Specifies precise new product functional requirements; designs, tests and integrates a variety of increasingly complex components to produce final designs; and evaluates the design's overall effectiveness, cost (including cost/benefit analysis), reliability (risk analysis), and safety.

- Designs, develops, executes and evaluates fitness-for-use testing, product specifications and process validation plans for a variety of increasingly complex products and/or components; creates and reviews material part specifications and bills of materials.

- Collaborates with internal manufacturing partners, contract manufacturers, designers and product specialists to optimize increasingly complex designs for manufacturability.

- Utilizes CAD (Computer Aided Design) or CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) systems to model new designs and produce detailed engineering drawings.

- Supporting product development plans (schedule, product cost, meeting design inputs).

- Acts as a resource to mentor and teach less experienced engineers.

- Other duties as assigned.

Generac is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range for this role based in South Burlington, VT is