Design engineer 4 (# 7626)

Design Engineer 4 - (63763-1)   
Decatur, IL 
12 months

Job Description  
Additional Role Details: 
Design Engineer Mechanical or equivalent for large mining trucks heavy fabrications steering linkages, front, rear axles and casting development

Position’s Contributions to Work Group: 
- Position is meant to cover the responsibilities of the Large Mining Trucks’ steering arms and linkages design engineer. This backfill position aligns to our Product group and Operations teams (Decatur and Acuña) to enable the design team to support the efforts related to the quality improvement and product demand increased rates projected in the business plan. The focus of this design will be on the Rigid Frame LMT Electric Drive trucks. The Agency/TPL position is needed to lead on-site factory design/development efforts related to new product introduction and design for manufacturing projects. Among the design responsibilities of this position, the Designer is also responsible for heavy fabs Factory and Supplier collaboration support, BIQ deployment and CPI support for (Rigid Frame) Large Mining Trucks (LMT) heavy fabs at the Decatur Facility.
- Design Engineer Mechanical or equivalent for large mining trucks heavy fabrications steering linkages, front, rear axles and casting development

Reason/motivation for request:
- Backfill

Why Client? “Whether it be ground-breaking products, best in class solutions or a lifelong career, you can build what matters to you at Client. With 150 locations in countries around the world, what you create at Client travels and helps people around the world. You can collaborate with the best minds in the industry, complete meaningful work and continuously grow and develop through our various opportunities. Here, you can do the work that matters.”

Why this Role? 
This design position provides the designer with exposure to both product development and manufacturing environments, providing value thru the support on the resolution of the day-to-day product manufacturing issues, new product design introductions into the manufacturing environment and continuous product improvement while learning of our process and products.
- Exposure to the new designs or improvement of current for the (rigid frame) heavy fabrications on large mining trucks. This includes exposure to fabrication of subcomponents (brunt to shape, forming, machining and welding) and final product assembly.

Typical task breakdown: 
- Review and understand requests (emails, phone calls, in-person and virtual meetings) from the internal and external customer and peers, tech requirements or needs.
- Review of current design tasks and their status
- Participate in design and/or manufacturing meetings for each of the projects this designer participates in, as the opportunity arises.
- Understand and discuss project/product requirements, interact with Lead Designers and Tech Leaders, perform 3D modeling and basic FEA if/as needed during the development of the design concepts.
- Drawing review and mark-ups for corrections as needed for current and new designs.

Interaction with team: 
Both, virtual, on-site in person interactions with peers and customers
     
Team Structure: 
1 Engineering Manager responsible for LMT Rigid Frames, Rear/Front Axles, Steering linkages, and specialized heavy-duty mining attachments.
- 2 Team Leaders one for Productivity Class and one for Ultra class rigid frame mining trucks
- 8 Lead designer US Based
- 10 Support designers India based
- 15+ contract design engineers both US and offshore

Work environment: 
Office and shop floor work environment (PPE is required as per facility policy)

Education & Experience Required: 
- Years of experience: 8 years
- Degree requirement: BS Mechanical, Agricultural or Civil Engineering 
- Do you accept internships as job experience:   Yes
- Are there past or additional job titles or roles that would provide comparable background to this role: Not that I am aware

Top 3 Skills
3D modeling
Manufacturing of metallic parts
Good Communication skills

Additional Technical Skills – 
(Required)
- CAD proficient (Creo, Solidworks or equivalent software)
- Welding processes basic knowledge
- Basic manufacturing processes of metallic parts (brunt to shape, forming, stamping)
- Metal Casting design and manufacturing basic knowledge
- Good communication (Read, Verbal, written) skills 

(Desired)  
-  Creo Simulate, Ansys, Nastran or similar finite element 
- Tool design knowledge
- Machining process knowledge

Soft Skills
(Required)
- Receive/provide feedback and coaching
- Engineering curiosity

(Desired) 
- Ability to lead other team members
- Able to investigate further/beyond the regular available resources/means

Travel Requirement: 0-25%
Export Control Requirements: Yes