Mechanical Design Engineer - Solidworks

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**Applications should be local to Baltimore Maryland**

Product Development Engineer - Mechanical Engineer

About Us:

At Harbor Designs & Manufacturing we understand our clients unique products call for unique solutions and we pride ourselves on working with them as an extension of their team. Unlike traditional product design and contract manufacturing firms, we serve our clients as fractional product managers and our engineers create custom-tailored solutions as our clients that evolve as their product or companys needs evolve. Their core technology is their differentiator and it will be your job as part of our team to help empower them to transform their innovative ideas into cost effective products sold around the world.

As an ISO 9001 & ISO 13485 certified design and manufacturing firm, we serve clients in the medical device, consumer product, transportation, and defense markets.Services include product management, research and development, industrial design, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, embedded system development, app development, prototyping, FDA & regulatory guidance, global supply chain management, in house and off shore technical and clean room assembly, warranty repair service, quality assurance, and logistics and inventory control.

About You:

As an experience product development engineer or mechanical engineer, your job will be to work with clients, industrial designers, and other internal stakeholders to execute on designs that can be prototyped and tested, and designs that are optimized form manufacturing (DFM). Your experience with Solidworks make you a pro at executing new designs and revisions to existing designs in CAD, and generate the dimensioned drawings with the appropriate level of detail and tolerancing for intended manufacturing. We will be hiring multiple positions and are open to a range of experience, but any experience or particular interest in specific industries will be matched to projects accordingly.

Main Responsibilities:

• Complex part design for plastic injection molding experience required
• Design for Manufacturing experience and production process knowledge required (thermoforming, sheet metal, injection molding, casting, extrusion, etc)
• Multi-part plastic design and assembly experience required
• Wire Harness/Wire Routing Design experience required
• Create 3D CAD models of designs using Solidworks and prepare 2D drawings that convey the design for manufacturing and assembly purposes.
• Work closely with the customer to capture their design intent and to communicate general project details.
• Complete product designs for projects ranging from small private inventors to large companies developing new products and support them from concept, detailed design, prototype, manufacturing, to assembly and packaging.
• Provide creative and innovative solutions to design challenges presented in projects ranging from biomedical, defense, rail, agriculture, exercise equipment, pharmaceutical, household devices, etc
• Develop and build protocols and fixtures for component validation testing of new product designs.
• Complete finite element analysis of product components and assemblies using Solidworks
• Project planning and management of customers and suppliers
• Strategically source component suppliers and work with sourcing team to select manufacturers for new designs.
• Communicate designs with manufacturers and component suppliers and source cost effective products.
  
• Experience talking to manufacturers

Desired Skills/Qualifications:

• Motivated
• Leader
• Must be an Innovator that has excellent attention to detail and troubleshooting, possesses fabrication and electrical skills.
• Proficient in Solidworks - PDM
• Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook, Teams, etc)
  
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Self-motivated
• Enjoys working on challenging designs within a team atmosphere

Desired Experience:

• Strong CAD background
• Willingness to grow
• Plastic design experience
• SOLIDWORKS experience 2-5 years

Benefits:

• Unlimited Paid Time Off (UPTO) Policy
• Bereavement leave
• Paid sick days
• Short Term (paid by company)
• Long Term (optional)
• 401(k) (optional)
  
• Health/ Dental/ Vision insurance (paid in part by company)
• Health savings account
• Life insurance (paid by company)