Ready to help design innovative rigging solutions used in performing arts venues around the world? ETC is looking for a Mechanical Design Engineer to join our Professional Services - Rigging team. Whether you're a recent engineering graduate or an experienced professional, we welcome applicants at all career levels. In this role, you'll contribute to the design, testing, and implementation of rigging systems and structural supports, working alongside a collaborative team of engineers to deliver safe, reliable, and industry-leading solutions.
You'll have the opportunity to work from either our Middleton, Wisconsin or Victor, New York office while gaining hands-on experience with product design, AutoCAD and SolidWorks, field surveys, testing, and continuous product improvement. If you enjoy solving technical challenges and seeing your designs come to life, we'd love to hear from you.
Please contact Kennedy Kitelinger at [email protected] or 608.824.5318 if you have questions about the position or application process
Representative Responsibilities:
• Performs assigned project tasks under direct supervision of more senior-level engineers
• Participates in the development effort under the direction of management and more senior team members
• Makes design modifications or improvements to development projects with supervision
• Maintains project reference documentation
• Develops test and verification procedures
• May be involved in continuing engineering maintenance and manufacturing floor support of existing products
• Provides task completion time estimates
• Attends identified training classes
• Participates as a team member, works effectively in a team environment
• Becomes familiar with tools and applications utilized by department
• Learns department and corporate policies, procedures, and plans
Position Specific Duties:
• Perform calculations for design of rigging systems and structural supports with supervision of senior engineers
• Determine loading, specify components and equipment, and integrate into a system meeting the overall design requirements and safety standards with supervision
• Produce detailed part, assembly, and submittal drawings in Auto-CAD and/or Solidworks
• Work in Word and Excel to create support documents for manufacturing authorization, hoist requirement calculations, weight estimations, shaft sizing, and other data sheets embedded in CAD files
• Perform testing functions on products as required
• Coordinate with venders and subcontractors as needed
• Make and implement suggestions for product and process improvement
• Flexibly work in other roles, such as design, drafting, manufacturing, installation, etc., on an as needed basis to meet deadlines/customer expectations
• Complete site surveys at customer facilities
• Some travel required
• Performs other duties as assigned
• Completes special projects and assignments in a positive and timely manner
Minimum Requirements:
• Technical Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field
• 0-3 years of job-related experience
• Communication Skills
• Demonstrates basic written/verbal skills
• Has good grasp of grammar and sentence structure for technical writing
• Listens/gives constructive feedback
• Good group interaction skills
• Ability to follow directions and project plans
• Creativity/Problem Solving
• Demonstrates ability to solve problems of limited scope and perform root cause analysis
• Analyzes data using standard, straightforward methods
• Grasps technical concepts and asks for clarification and direction when needed
• Technical Expertise
• Ability to implement designs for well-defined blocks
• Understands and applies accepted engineering principles and practices
• Assists with design or modification of a product, service, or process
• Reasonable knowledge of various low volume assembly methods
• Good working knowledge of AutoCAD and Solidworks a plus
• Ability to maintain individual task list and log time in approved timekeeping program
• Ability to work at heights
• Valid driver’s license required
Skills Required
- Technical bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field
- 0-3 years of job-related experience
- Basic written and verbal communication skills
- Technical writing ability with good grammar and sentence structure
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment
- Ability to follow directions and project plans
- Problem-solving and root cause analysis ability
- Ability to analyze data using standard methods
- Understanding of accepted engineering principles and practices
- Ability to implement designs for well-defined components or systems
- Knowledge of low-volume assembly methods
- Working knowledge of AutoCAD and SolidWorks
- Ability to maintain task lists and log time in an approved timekeeping system
- Ability to work at heights
- Valid driver's license
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What We Do
A global leader in the manufacturing of lighting and rigging technology, ETC employs nearly 1400 people in 13 corporate offices around the world. ETC is proud of its industry reputation for unmatched technical and customer service, 24/7/365. And with a family of over 300 authorized service centers throughout the world, staffed by hundreds of certified technicians, customers are never far from an ETC resource with a face and a name. ETC develops professional tools and makes them accessible to everyone. Their products are found in small and large venues worldwide, such as theatres, churches, restaurants, hotels, schools, television studios, casinos, theme parks, and opera houses. Founded in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1975, ETC was begun with the passionate belief that there was a better way to make a lighting control console. A small group of university students challenged themselves by creating a microprocessor-based console that outdid other boards on the market at the time. That entrepreneurial spirit grew into an award-winning business. To learn more about ETC and our history of innovation, visit www.etcconnect.com.
