Position Summary

/ A Mechanical Engineer provides department design efforts by researching, planning, designing, and purchasing mechanical and electromechanical equipment for the metallurgical, specialty metals, hazardous waste treatment, and aerospace industries. They also provide sales support, customer support, and project support of systems utilizing electrical, hydraulic, vacuum, and pneumatic components for equipment such as plasma welders, plasma melters, induction vacuum casters, electron beam melters, and vacuum arc re-melters, as well as associated material handling equipment.

Job Responsibilities

/ Provide engineering department support by generating high quality high accuracy technical evaluations and reports of designs utilizing hand calculations, FEA, or other methods.

/ Provide technical support for the Sales Department including system sizing analysis, equipment conceptual and detailed layouts, customer visits, and cost analysis.

/ Develop clear and concise engineering specifications for design and/or procurement of subsystems, components, and engineering services.

/ Generate high quality written reports, proposals, instructions, manuals, white papers, and other documentation that may be distributed to customers, internal users, or the public at large.

/ Develop written methods and procedures for testing equipment and systems.

/ Provide reports on the status of project milestones and adjusts schedules accordingly.

/ Review documents such as customer design specifications and requests for quotes to determine feasibility of design and applicability of Retech products to customer needs.

/ Generate creative solutions, use feedback to modify design, apply design principals, and demonstrate attention to detail.

/ Support fabrication and installation activities to ensure products and systems conform to engineering design and customer specifications. 

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

/ Minimum of 1 year experience with Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, or other 3D CAD programs.

/ Minimum of 1 year experience using FEA Software or similar.

/ Ability to perform heat transfer analysis and energy balance on complex systems.

/ Ability to perform calculations for sizing components like pumps, motors, gearboxes, hydraulic/pneumatic cylinders.

/ Strong stress analysis skills.

/ Working knowledge of FEA analysis.

/ Proven track record in generating innovative and practical ideas.

/ Experience with industrial schematics or P&IDs.

/ Working knowledge of recognized industry standards.

/ Ability to maintain project schedules and adhere to budgets.

/ Working knowledge of materials suitable for use in high temperature, corrosive environments.

Education and Experience:

/ BSME from a four-year college or university.

Personal Skills/Attributes required for the Position:

/ Proven track record of generating innovative and practical ideas.

/ Excellent verbal and written communication skills for both internal and external customers.

/ Exceptional organization skills with attention to detail.

/ Ability to be proactive and manage time effectively to meet deadlines.

/ Detail-orientated with ability to respond quickly to a fast-moving and ever-changing environment.

/ Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.

/ A work style which is “people oriented” and can obtain the best out of team members.

Physical Demands:

/ The employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend, hear and talk.  

/ The employee is frequently required to use hands.  

/ The employee occasionally will be required to reach with hands or arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl.  

/ The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 15 pounds.  

/ Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, and depth perception.

/ The work environment is an office setting with periodic need to visit the plant floor.  

/ The position may be required to work long hours extending into the weekends on some occasions.

/ The position may also need to travel for short or extended trips as needed.

/ The position must also be able and willing to travel to international and domestic sites for sales, installation, and customer service support.

/ Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.