Senior Mechanical Engineer

Senior Mechanical Engineer USA – Duluth - Georgia As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to work in a dynamic and collaborative environment, where your ideas and contributions will be valued and respected. As a team member of our global new product development team, a Mechanical Engineer is responsible for defining, designing, testing, documenting, and releasing new products for the Nordson Product Assembly Division.  A successful Mechanical Engineer will use sound engineering principles to develop principally adhesive dispensing products that meet or exceed our product requirements ensuring our new products meet safety, regulatory, and quality standards for new products that deliver overall value and performance for our customers.  In addition, the Mechanical Engineer will work to meet our stage-gate requirements delivering products that are on-time, meet cost targets, and are of the highest quality.  Working alone or as part of a larger project team, the Mechanical Engineer will successfully collaborate with others and apply an innovative attitude and energy to help our customers and Nordson succeed.
  Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities

• May conduct feasibility studies on new and modified designs.

• Exercises judgment within broadly defined practices and policies in selecting methods, techniques, and evaluation criterion for obtaining results
• Devises new approaches to problems encountered. 
• May direct support personnel in preparation of detailed design, design testing, prototype fabrication and manufacturing. 
• Applies engineering principles leading to robust designs meeting all product requirements.
• Designs mechanical aspects of our products including adhesive applicators, melters and related systems in a variety of different forms, materials, and functions.
• Ability to develop and execute test plans that provide sound data proving designs meet the highest of standards regarding safety, regulatory, and quality guidelines.
• Follows our phase-gate process, nVision, planning and meeting project milestones and cost targets on-time with good quality.
• Works with Electrical and Software engineering disciplines to integrate designs into one cohesive product meeting all performance requirements.
• Collaborates with product line management to develop and review specifications.
• Work as partners with Operations, designing products for manufacturing while supporting the building and training for prototype builds and beta test versions.
• Supports Voice-of-Customer(VOC) discussions with customers as required.
• Plans and coordinates large projects or several small projects. 
• Other duties may be assigned as required

Education and Experience Requirements Requires a BS Mechanical Engineering degree plus 7 – 10 years of experience or equivalent relevant experience.

• Solidworks experience or equivalent is required.
• Experience with sensors, measuring devices, control systems, and automation is preferred.
• phase-gate & project management experience is preferred.
• Experience developing & launching new products is a plus.
• Experience with customer interactions and factory visits is a plus.
• Experience using an Enterprise Resource Planning system, SAP is a plus.

Office environment To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty
satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and talk or hear, occasionally required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms; requires close vision ability. Noise level is usually moderate.
  Travel Required Estimated 5-10%