Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Research, design, and develop components, equipment, and systems to satisfy technical, timeline, cost, quality, and customer requirements
- Complete research, design layouts, feasibility studies, and cost analysis to ensure the right design direction
- Facilitate regular design reviews with cross-functional teams
- Create & check 3D models, layouts, detailed drawings, bills of materials, & engineering changes requests
- Perform basic design analysis and tolerance studies to ensure design quality is achieved
- Assist with test planning, prototype fabrications, and builds to validate any new designs
- Verify that designs meet regulatory and safety requirements
- Collaborate with other departments including Procurement, Production, Quality, and Customer Support
- Continuously improve products via design enhancements, cost-down measures, and quality improvements that increase customer satisfaction
- Regularly present status of design activities and any open issues to Engineering managers
- Communicate effectively through all levels of the organization
Qualifications:
- 3+ years’ experience developing mechanical, structural, and/or hydraulic systems for mobile/heavy equipment
- Proficient at mechanical design using 3D-CAD (Siemens NX preferred)
- Experience with manufacturing processes, design to cost (DTC), and value analysis (VA)
- Experience with bill of material management with ERP system (SAP preferred)
- Experience with design of sheet metal parts, welded structures, and machining practices
- Experience with design analysis and tolerance stack-ups
- Effective collaboration skills with diverse and multinational colleagues
- Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Technology, or comparable field required
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What We Do
Looking to make your move? Then you’ve come to the right place! We are the KION Group, and the world of intralogistics is our home. Our solutions ensure the smooth flow of materials and information in production plants, warehouses, and distribution centers in over 100 countries.
We have around 41,000 employees who make a real difference, helping us to become who we are today: the biggest manufacturer of forklift trucks and warehouse handling equipment in Europe, and one of the world’s leading warehouse automation providers.
Successful? We are, but it’s all down to the motivated, highly trained, and multi-talented people that work for us. Would you like to be part of an international, diverse team? We can offer you interesting jobs and exciting career opportunities in an innovative, rapidly-growing, and forward-looking industry.
With us, you benefit from numerous development opportunities in a globally active group, including the possibility of working at one of our locations abroad on a temporary basis.
No matter which of our sites you work at, the KION values—integrity, collaboration, courage, and excellence—shape our individual action and our collaboration with colleagues, managers, customers, suppliers, and applicants both nationally and internationally.
Who makes up the KION Group? With our international brands Linde Material Handling, STILL, and Baoli, as well as regional brands Fenwick and OM, we stand for exceptional technology and service expertise for forklift trucks and warehouse handling equipment around the world. Dematic expands the portfolio with its automated material handling solutions for intralogistics processes in warehouses, production, and sales
