Jobs at DISHER Engineering

Executes machine startups, launches and debugs controls systems, and tests industrial machinery at a technician level. The role is onsite in Grand Rapids with occasional travel to Ohio and Detroit. Candidates need an engineering degree or related background, controls and machine startup experience, and the ability to perform basic project management tasks such as estimating timelines. Allen Bradley knowledge is helpful.

Supports the full lifecycle of physical security system projects, including architecture, requirements, integration, testing, validation, troubleshooting, and documentation. Works with access control, video surveillance, alarms, building automation, APIs, databases, and enterprise networks. Develops test plans, conducts acceptance testing, maintains configuration baselines, provides technical recommendations, supports training, and coordinates with government, industry, program management, and installation teams. Travel to customer and partner facilities is required.

Manage multiple product development projects from approval through launch, coordinating cross-functional teams, milestones, timelines, risks, and ownership. Maintain project trackers, lead status meetings, report pipeline progress, improve development processes, analyze cycle times, and ensure launch readiness. The role requires strong communication, organization, problem-solving, and proficiency with project management software and Microsoft Office.

Lead and coordinate recruiting for engineering talent, including sourcing, screening, candidate engagement, hiring-manager partnership, and talent market guidance. Use advanced outbound sourcing techniques and multiple recruiting resources to build qualified pipelines for external partner opportunities. The role requires strong organization, communication, time management, relationship-building, and problem-solving skills, with no prior experience required.

Designs, develops, prototypes, tests, validates, and documents mechanical products and assemblies from concept through launch. Leads CAD modeling, tolerance analysis, strength calculations, FMEA, DVP&R, design reviews, validation strategies, and technical decision-making. Collaborates with mechanical, electrical, manufacturing, customer, and vendor teams; estimates project scope and timelines; contributes to engineering processes and business development; and mentors entry-level engineers. The role includes customer-site engagement and occasional domestic travel.

Plan and execute production line relocations, including equipment moves, reinstallation, revalidation, and requalification. Support industrial engineering activities involving ergonomics, material transfer, inventory, material handling, plant flow, and broader plant impacts. This onsite, two-year contract requires collaboration with a medical device customer team and hands-on work on the production floor.

Supports production line relocations, validation, flow analysis, rebalancing, and implementation of new manufacturing equipment. Responsibilities include specifying equipment, supporting procurement, coordinating vendors, qualifying and integrating equipment, assembling production lines, and debugging or ramping production systems in a highly regulated environment.

Lead reliability for copied production assets at a medical device facility. Responsibilities include building uptime and downtime analysis, validating reliability metrics, developing spare parts strategy, improving OEE and uptime, establishing reliability-centered maintenance, and maturing the reliability function. The role requires strong reliability engineering expertise, analytics skills, self-direction, and experience with automated production equipment.

Manage a $50 million manufacturing capital program for a medical device customer over a two-year onsite assignment. The role owns execution across all workstreams, navigates design controls, validation requirements, and regulated changes, and delivers large line installations, plant expansions, or major equipment programs on schedule. The manager must actively support execution and have medical device or automotive industry experience.

Supports the Program Manager with day-to-day execution of a large-scale, onsite manufacturing project. Coordinates concurrent production line moves, equipment installations, validations, and floor-level activities. Requires strong hands-on presence, the ability to manage multiple workstreams, and experience in medical device, automotive, or similarly regulated manufacturing environments.

Supports a two-year medical device manufacturing project by creating AutoCAD facility and assembly-line layouts, optimizing material flow and inventory placement, assisting with equipment moves, evaluating facility impacts, and supporting production-line transitions to reduce downtime and improve efficiency.

Manage an 18-month onsite project for a medical device customer, including risk assessments for powder coating lines, user requirement specifications, engineering support, and project release to operations. The role requires coordinating multiple projects, understanding powder coating and overhead conveyor systems, and using project, EHS, quality, and manufacturing software.

Lead mechanical design and testing for coffee brewing products and pod production equipment. Design injection-molded components, prototype and validate mechanisms, integrate and maintain automated manufacturing systems, and transition products from prototype to scaled production. Responsibilities include DFM, supplier collaboration, fabrication, equipment installation, troubleshooting, documentation, and cross-functional support with electrical and embedded controls. The role requires hands-on startup agility and ownership from concept through commercial deployment.

Design mechanical components and subsystems for a medical device frame, including a siderail subsystem. Responsibilities include creating engineering drawings and specifications, supporting assembly and development, and conducting verification testing. The engineer will design, build, test, integrate, and manufacture components using injection molding, sheet metal, powder metal, and mechanical mechanisms. This is a full-time, six-month contract requiring five days per week onsite in Portage, Michigan.

Designs electrical schematics, ladder logic, and PLC-based control systems for custom dehumidifiers and HVAC equipment. Selects electrical components, leads R&D and new product development projects, writes procedures and production standards, and drives continuous improvement. Provides field service and customer engineering support, troubleshoots systems, and applies NEC and UL requirements. Requires independent project ownership, HVAC or refrigeration knowledge, technical writing ability, and occasional customer-site travel.

Develop and integrate Ignition SCADA, HMI, and PLC control systems for automated car wash products. Responsibilities include developing Ignition Perspective and Vision applications, troubleshooting controls systems, establishing technical standards, validating product performance, and creating technical documentation and support materials. The role collaborates with engineering teams and provides technical direction for evolving automation projects.

Leads mechanical product design and development for automated car wash systems, including fluid systems, pumps, pneumatics, plumbing, CAD, prototyping, testing, analysis, and refinement. Manages projects from concept through launch, guides engineers, oversees design quality and iterations, conducts technology research, collaborates with suppliers, and leads product-category strategy and team development.

Design automotive interior plastic parts for a customer project. This full-time, onsite contract role requires 5+ years of automotive interior plastic design experience and intermediate to advanced CATIA plastics design skills. The contract is expected to last at least three months in Zeeland, Michigan.

Support a remote contract project by configuring design libraries, smart features, systems, and templates in AutoCAD Electrical. The engineer will apply strong AutoCAD Electrical expertise to establish and organize electrical design resources during a two-month project.

Lead the design of HVAC and other building mechanical systems for educational and commercial facilities. Perform calculations, equipment sizing, energy modeling, code compliance, BIM coordination, and construction administration. Provide technical leadership, coordinate multidisciplinary teams, support sustainable design and LEED goals, conduct site visits, review submittals, respond to RFIs, and mentor engineers and designers.