Job Summary
Responsible for designing, defining, implementing system requirements, analyzing and/or testing Nordson products. Responsible for designing, testing, and implementing production methodology for new products. Responsible for providing design input to ensure manufacturing success of new products. Works on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors.
Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities
- Coordinates subsystems and integration of total system and tooling.
- Identifies, analyzes and resolves program and production support deficiencies; Develops, recommends, and implements corrective actions and tracks progress of corrective actions as key inputs to program progress and/or production health.
- May conduct feasibility studies on new and modified designs.
- Runs Pilot production activities.
- Plans and conducts work requiring judgment in the independent evaluation, selection and adaptation or modification of standard techniques, procedures and criteria, including production escalations.
- Exercises judgment within generally defined practices and policies in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
- Devises new approaches to problems encountered.
- May direct support personnel in preparation of detailed design, design testing, prototype fabrication and manufacturing.
- Selects components and equipment based on analysis of specifications and reliability.
- May review vendor capability to support development.
- Other duties may be assigned as required.
Education and Experience
- Requires a BS Mechanical Engineering degree
- 2-4 years of experience or equivalent relevant experience.
Skills and Abilities
- Solidworks proficiency
- Familiar with ASME Y14.5M drawing standards
- Experience with a variety of metal fabrication methods, including Sheet Metal, Welding, Machining, and Plating.
- Ability to interface with a wide variety of personnel in group and one-on-one settings
- Strong teamwork and collaborative skills
- Experience with Lean
- Manufacturing in an OEM/Capital Equipment production environment preferred
- Proficient or advanced in Microsoft Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, and Visio
- Project Management
- Understanding of RoHS and REACH compliance
- Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
- High attention to detail and strong organizational skills
- Ability to execute in a fast paced and dynamic environment
Working Environment and Physical Demands
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Travel Required
Estimated 10-20% Domestic and International
Mechanical Engineer I
Skills Required
- BS Mechanical Engineering degree
- 2-4 years of relevant experience
- SolidWorks proficiency
- Familiarity with ASME Y14.5M drawing standards
- Experience with metal fabrication methods (Sheet Metal, Welding, Machining, Plating)
- Experience with Lean
- Manufacturing experience in an OEM/Capital Equipment production environment
- Proficient or advanced in Microsoft Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, and Visio
- Project management skills
- Understanding of RoHS and REACH compliance
- Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
- High attention to detail and strong organizational skills
- Ability to execute in a fast paced and dynamic environment
- Willingness to travel 10-20% domestically and internationally
Nordson Corporation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Nordson Corporation and has not been reviewed or approved by Nordson Corporation.
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Retirement Support — The 401(k) features automatic enrollment at 6%, a 50% match on up to 6% of pay, and an additional 3% company contribution for eligible U.S. employees even without employee contributions. Feedback suggests this retirement structure is above what many mid-size manufacturers offer.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid holidays and a typical year-end shutdown between Christmas and New Year’s at many U.S. locations expand time off beyond standard PTO. Feedback suggests this shutdown is a distinctive work-life perk, though availability can vary by site or business unit.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Volunteer release time and a 3:1 charitable gift-matching program are offered alongside recognition programs, tuition assistance, and community initiatives. Feedback suggests these elements add value beyond core insurance and PTO.
Nordson Corporation Insights
What We Do
Nordson is a team of 7,300 global employees thriving in an environment where they are supported and encouraged to be their best. Working side by side, we build meaningful connections with each other and our customers. Together, we deliver products that are solutions, and they’re likely touching your life every day. Have you ever changed a diaper? Opened a box of cereal? Used a smart phone or driven a car? Then we’ve already met. At Nordson, we take pride in being an outstanding corporate citizen and strongly believe in sharing our success with the communities where our employees live and work. Whether you’re working in one of our labs, offices or manufacturing facilities, your efforts will enable our customers to succeed and our company to continuously improve and grow. We engineer, manufacture and market differentiated products and systems used for precision dispensing and processing in a variety of end markets, from packaging to transportation and medical to electronics. Founded in 1954, we operate under the values of integrity, respect for people, customer passion, energy and excellence. Nordson is headquartered in the United States in Westlake, Ohio, and has direct operations in more than 30 countries to support our products and systems with application expertise and a direct global sales and service organization
