Lead Design Engineer

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Saige Partners is looking for a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer to join the team of one our top clients in the Iowa City/Cedar Rapids area who is a leader in the agriculture industry.  This position offers a generous salary plus bonus and benefits.

Senior Design Engineer

Job Overview: Our Williamsburg client, is seeking to add a NEW Senior Design Engineer to their team. 

This is a Direct Hire role.

• Design, develop and engineer new and innovative products that satisfy business needs of our customers both internal and external.
• The customer needs will be communicated through Management Requirements Documents, customer service issues, manufacturing issues, cost control and general requests by Senior Leadership. Provide engineering services to Materials, Quality Assurance, Manufacturing, Construction, and others. Coordinate development projects and recommend product opportunities.

Conceptualize, design and develop row crop production equipment products that....

• Meet predetermined product objectives; performance, cost, weight, schedule, etc.
• Provide building blocks for future, often yet-undefined, product development needs
• Support product development to new business opportunities
• Exceed the competitions’ product offerings (on specifications outlined by Management)
• Create needs in the marketplace

Additional duties and experience that will be helpful in this role... 

• Development will reflect requirements as spelled out in the Management Requirements Document or as requested by Senior Management.
• Determine design suitability through observation, analysis of data from testing and design assistance tools. This includes utilizing methods and tools such as hand-calculations, finite element analysis (FEA) stress, deflection and fatigue analysis, failure mode & effect analysis (FMEA), etc. applying outputs to determine acceptability of the design for known conditions, and then correlating expectations with empirical test data/results to make sound decisions on design configurations.
• Design and develop new and legacy products. Responsibilities span the product development lifecycle from the Marketing Requirement Definition (MRD) definition to product fruition; planning and executing activities to ensure that all design intent objectives are met.
• Mechanical components typically include machined parts, castings, moldings, powdered metal, forgings; and weldments. Hydraulic systems typically include custom control blocks and cylinders, and off-the shelf hose, valve and fitting evaluation and selection.
• Ensure design compliance with regulatory standards, and that products are intrinsically safe to assemble, service, transport and operate. Compliance will be as appropriate for Agricultural businesses that we serve.
• Communicate appropriate project information to leadership (challenges, obstacles & roadblocks) in a timely manner to facilitate business management decisions.
• Conduct project meetings such as technical design and style reviews with stakeholders (Marketing, Service Manufacturing, etc.), auditing the progress and appraising the development of project deliverables against requirements.
• Hands-on oversight of model and prototype construction, and testing and evaluation of same to verify design suitability for use. Often includes working with suppliers in initial qualification testing and with customers in field testing.
• Responsible for product technical documentation from the design of engineer-originated solid models through administration of the final drawing creation; ensuring that information critical to product configuration control and processing is accurately and adequately communicated.
• Analyze the effectiveness of standards and procedures; recommend improvements or creation of new infrastructure methods and tools to enable engineering and organizational effectiveness; design, facilitate and coordinate creation of same.
• Contribute to a professional leadership environment; one that promotes and upholds company values and business-critical objectives, ensuring that expectations and deliverables are clearly defined, plausible, understood and supported with conviction by all stakeholders.

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