At Ramrod Industries, we serve customers in a wide range of industries requiring hydraulic cylinders featuring an outstanding combination of quality, durability, and wear life! Ramrods innovative cylinder designs allow for the integration of specialized and desirable features.
Position Summary:
Designs cylinders based on customer drawings, sketches and other applicable specifications or verbal instructions.
Benefits:
- Medical (HSA available), Dental, and Vision
- $10,000 Company paid life insurance.
- Optional life insurance for employee, spouse, and children.
- Optional short-term and long-term disability Insurance
- 10 paid holidays a year
- 401K company matches 50% up to 6%.
- Paid time off
Position Specific Requirements:
- Reviews product design for compliance with engineering principles, company standards, customer contract requirements and related specifications. Design products to meet all requirements.
- Perform preliminary and advanced work in development of working layouts (2D & 3D) and final drawings adequate for detailing parts and units of design for new proposals and current designs.
- Perform calculations required to adequately select materials and processing requirements.
- Directly communicate with customers concerning material and lead time for cylinders in process.
- Interact with vendors and customers on engineering design issues for various stages of development. Understand and respond to customer requests, both written and verbal.
- Participate in meetings and presentations with customers to understand and define their needs. Assist in preparing quotes.
- Evaluate and process all changes and problems related to product design.
- Communicate with Purchasing, Quality, Sales, and Production regarding issues related to problems or improvements.
- Maintains drawing file and keeps up to date as design changes occur.
- Finate Element Analysis (FEA) understanding and experience.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Science degree (B.S.) in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering or equivalent from a four-year college. (Required)
- Strong knowledge and experience with AutoCAD, SolidWorks 3D Modeling; five to seven years in OEM Mobile Hydraulic Equipment.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office products and strength of materials.
- Solid modeling and manufacturing experience (Required)
- 10 years of work experience in Manufacturing Design Engineering (Preferred).
Behavioral Expectations:
All Ramrod Industries employees are expected to demonstrate the following behavioral expectations.
- Accountability: Accountability demonstrated by consistently being to work on time; covers work responsibilities when absent. Takes responsibility for own actions, commits to long hours when necessary to reach goals.
- Flexibility: Flexibility demonstrated through a willingness to accept other responsibilities and to view challenges as opportunities.
- Communications/Interpersonal Skills: Interpersonal skills demonstrated through the ability to listen to others without interrupting, keep emotions under control, remain open to others’ ideas and try new things. Communication skills to demonstrate the ability to speak clearly and persuasively in positive or negative situations; listen and get clarification.
- Organizational Contributions: Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness; looks for ways to improve and promote quality, strives to increase productivity, works quickly and safely.
- Adaptability: Adapts to changes in the work environment. Manages competing demands; changes approach or method to best-fit situation. Able to deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events.
- Safety and Security: Observes safety and security procedures; determines appropriate actions beyond guidelines; reports potentially unsafe conditions; uses equipment and materials properly.
- Decision Making/Problem Solving: Displays willingness to make decisions; exhibits sound and accurate judgment; supports and explains reasoning for decisions; includes appropriate people in decision making process.
- Conflict Management: Conflict management demonstrated by recognizing conflict, understanding appropriate methods to address conflict, and working to resolve conflict one-on-one or seeking assistance when necessary.
- Teamwork: Teamwork demonstrated by removing “not my job” from your vocabulary, helping a co-worker in other areas when needed; exhibits support to everyone’s efforts to succeed.
- Technical Skills: Demonstrate ability to assess own strengths and weaknesses; pursues training and development opportunities; strives to continuously build knowledge and skill. Shares expertise with others.
Environmental/Physical/Cognitive Requirements:
- Ability to regularly stand; use hands to finger, handle or feel and reach with hands and arms.
- Frequently required to walk, talk, and listen.
- Occasionally required to climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
- Ability to regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
- Vision ability required includes close, distance, color, and peripheral vision. Depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Ramrod Industries, LLC is an Equal Employment Opportunity company. If special accommodations are needed to apply for the above position, please contact Human Resources.