Title:  Associate, Mechanical Engineer (Waco, TX)

Job Title: Associate, Mechanical Engineer 

Job Location: Waco, Texas

Job Description:

• Provide mechanical engineering support for both new product development activities as well as factory support of existing products
• Translate product requirements into a mechanical specification and test plan to be used for development
• Execute verification testing as defined by the mechanical specification and test plan
• Conduct design analysis and testing, both structural and thermal, to prove design will meet customer requirements
• Responsible for understanding customer needs, generating test procedures and finally executing the test
• Generate and/or process engineering change orders (ECO’s) as required
• Work directly with mechanical designers on CAD models and part documentation

Qualifications:

• To be eligible, applicants must be pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in engineering or have completed their Bachelor’s degree within the last 12 months, regardless of age.

   

Preferred Skills:

• CAD or analysis (FEA) tools exposure, and/or experience in mechanical design or analysis of electronic systems, structures and mechanisms
• Familiarity with transducer instrumentation, data collection and or automation and software programming for numerical analysis
• Must be able to apply the principles of Structural Mechanics to predict internal stresses and structural instabilities
• Must be able to generate free body diagrams, determine reaction forces, calculate internal loads, and develop shear and moment diagrams
• Working knowledge of one programming language
• Familiarity with finite element methods and fatigue and damage tolerance principle