Senior Mechanical Engineer

At Bullard, we don’t create just products. We create life-saving solutions and experiences that turn customers into raving fans. Be part of a team that dreams up what’s next and does everything necessary to make it happen. Bring your passion, dedication and focus to help shape the future of Personal Protective Equipment!

We question the norm. Collaborate and learn from each other. Innovate based on end user customer insights and are not afraid to do differently. We deliver value to our end user and distributor customers. Our vision is to advance human safety to enable long, healthy, productive lives through innovative solutions.

Job Summary:

The Sr. Mechanical Engineer architects and designs new mechanical systems for highly innovative safety products.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

None, however, leadership experience and a player/coach mindset are crucial. You will work hands on and informally lead more junior team members.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Lead and implement the mechanical requirements, design, development, and validation of new life-saving electromechanical products.
• Establish product specifications including design objectives, product features, cost targets, and deadlines based upon project requirements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure product definition is clear, complete, and achievable and are consistent with market and product research data. Participation in qualitative research activities with end users.
• Collaborate with a cross-functional project team with contributors from product management, product development, sales, manufacturing, and operations services to develop and validate new products that meet product specifications.
• Develop testing and evaluation protocols and design experiments as well as oversee the evaluation of related product systems and components.
• Analyze test and product evaluation data and present the results.

Skills/Experience:

• Experience in product categories that involve personal protective equipment that impact a user’s comfort, protect against impacts (falling objects, slips/trips/falls) and/or protect breathing (air purification, flow, etc.)
• Engineering drawings and geometric dimensioning & tolerancing (GD&T)
• Experience with Fluid dynamics, especially with compressible fluid flow
• Demonstrated CAD experience, especially with SolidWorks
• Experience in testing and failure mode analysis
• Experience with Designing for Manufacturability and Assembly
• Strong understanding of manufacturing processes
• Excellent communicator and able to make good analysis presentations
• Demonstrated ability to work well with others in a team environment
• Self-starter with a passion for problem-solving and enthusiastic advocacy for the customers’ needs, the products, and the Company

Skills/Experience (Strongly Preferred):

• Strong mechanical or mechatronics engineering background with injection molded plastics
• Biomedical Engineering
• Air filtration design
• Material selection for filtering organic vapors
• Respirators
• Computational fluid dynamics
• Acoustics

Education and Experience:

• B.S. in an Engineering discipline
• 10 years of experience in Mechanical Engineering of new products or related

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to lift 25 pounds
• Ability to understand and comply with safety policies

Disclaimer:

This job description is not intended and should not be construed to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills efforts or working conditions associated with the job; it is intended to be an accurate reflection of those principal job elements essential to the job. Incumbents may be required to perform other duties as assigned or as required by the needs of the business.