We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.
As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.
When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.
We are seeking an experienced Sustaining Mechanical Engineers to join a sustaining and quality engineering organization. Supporting ongoing product lifecycle activities and engineer teams on major development and system-level programs. The role is hands-on, execution-focused, and highly collaborative, with direct involvement in design changes, corrective actions, and manufacturing support activities.
Responsibilities:
- Execute sustaining engineering activities across released medical device products
- Support end-of-life (EOL) component management and redesigns
- Address manufacturability, reliability, and quality-driven design changes
- Manage small to medium design updates as they arise from sustaining backlog
- Perform mechanical design and updates using SolidWorks
- Generate and update engineering drawings and documentation
- Conduct root cause analysis for field, manufacturing, or test issues
- Support corrective actions and CAPA-related design changes
- Develop and author test plans for design changes
- Work closely with test technicians and lab personnel
- Support execution, troubleshooting, and interpretation of test results
- Ensure changes meet internal quality and validation expectations
- Create and process engineering change orders within change management system (ARIS)
- Work within ERP and documentation systems
- Ensure traceability, documentation completeness, and compliance
Qualification:
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline
- 5–10 years of experience in mechanical design and sustaining engineering
- Strong experience in medical devices, regulated products, or similar highly regulated environments
- Proficiency in SolidWorks and standard engineering documentation practices
- Experienced with: Sustaining engineering and product lifecycle support, Root cause analysis and corrective actions, Manufacturing support and design-for manufacturability
Nice to Have:
- Prior experience supporting products post-release
- Familiarity with quality systems, CAPA processes, and validation workflows
- Experience working directly in lab or manufacturing environments
- Exposure to change management systems (ARIS or equivalent)
- Comfort working with ambiguous, fast-moving sustaining priorities
The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, the candidate’s combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience.
ALTEN Technology is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our Policy is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual’s age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status.
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What We Do
ALTEN Technology USA is an engineering consulting company that provides innovative solutions for engineering, IT, and product development projects across the product life cycle. For decades, ALTEN Technology USA has been helping clients develop products that are changing the world, whether by shaping the future of space exploration, saving lives with medical devices that set new standards of care or creating the fully autonomous electric taxi of tomorrow. The company provides support across industries including aerospace, defense, MedTech and life sciences, unmanned systems and robotics, automotive OEM and tier 1 suppliers, commercial vehicles, electric vehicles, energy and environment, rail, and more.
Why Work With Us
Potential clients in the industries we serve, Professionals in the Industries, and Potential employees within New Product Development, Engineering Services, Sustaining Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Embedded Electronics Engineering, Software Engineering and IT, Mechanical Engineering, and Systems Engineering.
