Senior Mechanical Engineer

Overview

The Engineer Senior Controls, designs and develops major engineering projects with minimal management guidance or intervention. The Senior Engineer will assume all management duties in the absence of the Engineering manager. The Senior will also provide work direction and guidance to less experienced team members.

MPI drives a LEAN culture, focused on customer service excellence.  We do this by working to simplify our processes and driving out waste or non-value-added activities.  We value participation at all levels and invest in our employees’ training to achieve continuous development of our dynamic team.

Salary: $100,000

Hourly: Monday - Friday, 7/8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k, Educational Reimbursement

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent, plus 6 to 10 years of related experience.
• Experience as an engineer working with capital equipment using electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and mechanical engineering practices, PLC experience (if possible).
• Sound understanding of electrical design, schematics, and electrical codes regarding machine tool design.
• Sound computer skills, Cad for Schematics is desirable.
• Experience with machine tool equipment, electrical design.
• Vast knowledge of PLC programming. Omron, AB, and Siemens are desirable.
• Vast knowledge of HMI programming. Indusoft is desirable.
• Vast knowledge of Robotics’ programming. ABB and Fanuc are desirable.
• Proficient using Microsoft Office, Solidworks, and MPI information system “Epicor”
• Flexible, able to react to change.
• Advanced communication skills, able to work with others and lead others
• Good organizational skills, able to plan a project from beginning to end
• Good judgment skills, able to consider how decisions affect overall company.

Responsibilities

• Electrical Design: Responsible for creating electrical schematics, plc program logic, and electrical enclosure designs within the constraints determined by the given project, time, cost, performance.
• Project Supervision: Oversees the completion of an electrical design for a project with general supervision. These responsibilities include the following:
• Electrical enclosure design and detail.
• Electrical schematic design.
• Hands-on PLC and HMI programming.
• Hands-on Robotic programming desirable.
• Knowledge of vision systems is desirable.
• Project documentation, including bill of materials.
• Project checking.
• Estimating engineering hours required for a project.
• Manufacturing assembly support

• Checking / Verification: Responsible for inspecting and approving all teamwork that is completed for a given project, also responsible for ensuring that any of his or her own work is inspected and approved by the engineering manager.
• Documentation: Responsible for the proper documentation of his or her work, including ECR’s, machine manuals, check lists, and others.
• Scheduling & Reports: Responsible for reporting the status of his or her project in accordance with Epicor Projects (MPI’s information system) and the engineering production schedule at each weekly meeting. If a problem occurs that requires immediate attention, it is the engineer’s responsibility to report to the department manager at that time.
• Supports MPI lean culture and initiatives by attending and participating in daily lean meetings while supporting efforts to make continuous improvements throughout MPI.
• Other duties as assigned by management.

Company Profile

MPI is headquartered in Poughkeepsie, NY, and is proud to be able to stamp all of their equipment with the “Proudly Made in America” moniker. Within its impressive facility, there exists a fully functioning laboratory, showroom and production facility to demonstrate our state-of-the-art wax room equipment. We also boast a full training center to provide ongoing training classes for process engineers, machine operators and maintenance staff, available to our entire global customer base. MPI also offers impressive pattern injection and pattern assembly capabilities. Pattern production is mutually beneficial because it gives the customer a chance to reap the benefits of the process without the initial commitment to purchase. It also allows MPI to clearly see opportunities for enhanced equipment design.

Company Website

https://www.mpi-systems.com/