Senior Mechanical Engineer

Basic Qualifications: - A 4-year Bachelor of Science degree in an appropriate engineering discipline (a bachelor of applied science degree will NOT be accepted) from an accredited institution in the U.S. or a comparable foreign university.

Scope of Responsibility/Expectation: - Actively participates in internal design meetings to plan design or design review activities.
- Works on a variety of design projects that constitute a larger portion of a project.
- Conducts complex analyses and documents results. Makes recommendations for improvements.
- Implements basic design improvements.
- Designs simple test experiments. Executes complex experiments designed by more senior engineers and documents results.
- Makes and implements recommendations to improve team performance and enhance product functionality.
- Develops positive relationships with other disciplines and functions involved in the design process.
- Develops an awareness of market trends and latest technology.
- Seeks out new tools to analyze and solve problems.
- Work may be reviewed for accuracy and overall adequacy.
- Follows established processes and directions.
- Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.
- Receives general instructions on routine work, new projects or assignments.
- May provide guidance to non-exempt personnel.
- Builds productive working relationships internally and externally.
- Primary intra-organizational with occasional inter-organizational and external customer contacts on routine matters.
- Contributes to the fulfillment of projects and organizational objectives.
- Works on a variety of problems of moderately complex scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of a variety of factors.
- Developing professional expertise, applies company policies and procedures to resolve a variety of issues.

Specific Knowledge/Skills:
- Designs and analyzes products using Pro E Wildfire for cosmetic and functionality of all mechanical systems.
- This includes creating constraint drawings for PWB layout to allow internal component placement.
- Conducts all preliminary thermal and structural evaluation of the design using Flotherm and other analytical tools.
- Responsible for all tolerance analysis reports for DFM and design functionality.
- Follows a disciplined product development path through all phases of the product life cycle.
- Verifies all designs using Design Verification Testing (DVT), or analysis or simulation tools.
- Provides detailed drawings and bill of materials for all designs during the development process such that the product can be launched into production in a seamless and DFM friendly manner.

Synectics is an Equal Opportunity Employer.