Design Engineer jobs in Indianapolis, IN

About Wood-Mizer:

Wood-Mizer is the world's largest manufacturer of portable sawmills, with over 100,000 mills sold in more than 100 countries. Wood-Mizer provides forestry and timber professionals around the world with a complete line of narrowband portable and industrial sawmills, wideband sawmilling equipment, resaws, edgers, kilns, molders/planers, firewood processing equipment, pallet recycling equipment, material handling equipment, bandsaw blades, and blade maintenance equipment.

Our Culture and Values:

Wood-Mizer is dedicated to customer and employee-owner success, putting compassion and faith at the heart of the business, and committing to providing high-quality equipment that makes a positive difference in people's lives. Wood-Mizer is a 100% employee-owned company that believes every mill owner is an extension of our Wood-Mizer family - a philosophy that makes both our customers and employee-owners feel at ease.

What Makes Wood-Mizer Stand-Out:

Wood-Mizer believes that investing in people is an investment in the future. As a result, we provide a variety of benefits to ensure that our employees-owners are healthy and happy so that we can all grow, learn, and innovate together.

• Equity: Through our ESOP, you can become a 100% owner and receive Wood-Mizer stock (Employee Stock Ownership Plan).
• Retirement: Matching funds in a 401(k)
• Bonuses: Discretionary bonuses are available monthly.
• Pay Options: We provide several methods for receiving biweekly payments, as well as the option for Wages On-Demand, which allows you to receive earned wages on a daily basis.
• Paid Time Off: PTO accrual begins with the first paycheck, with immediate eligibility for paid holidays, personal marriage, birth/adoption, and other events.
• Insurance: Health, dental, vision, life insurance paid by the company, supplemental life insurance, and short- and long-term disability are all available.
• FREE Health Care Access:  We provide FREE access to Wood-Mizer’s Health Care Clinics by Marathon Health if you are covered by our health insurance.
• Workplace Giving Programs: Employee-owners who serve the community/those in need through monetary donations and hands-on work are eligible for a variety of benefits.
• Tuition Reimbursement: Wood-Mizer offers a generous tuition reimbursement program to help you achieve your long-term career goals.
• Annual Allowances: Employee-owners receive reimbursement for the cost of their own safety boots, safety glasses, and gym membership. Each year, they are also given money to spend on Wood-Mizer apparel and swag.
• Other Rewards: Companywide celebrations, company outings, complimentary coffee stations and fruit, gift cards for your birthday and anniversary, referral reward program, discounted shipping rate, and much more!

For more details about what Wood-Mizer has to offer, please visit our career’s page at:  https://woodmizer.com/us/About-Us/Careers 

Summary of the Role You Are Applying For:

As a Design Engineer, you will help Wood-Mizer design, develop, or redesign new or existing products. You will work from requirements or instructions to design and develop new components or redesign existing components to improve Wood-Mizer products. Additionally, you will determine and establish specifications through engineering calculations and layouts and oversee the assembly and testing of engineering prototypes as needed. 

This position is in Indianapolis, IN and is NOT a remote position.  Hybrid options are available.  Anyone not living in the greater Indianapolis, IN area should NOT apply for this role.

How You Will Spend Your Time:

Every day brings a new challenge at Wood-Mizer.  Here are some ways you will be spending your time for each role:

Responsibilities:

• Lead the development of new product development, custom industrial solutions, as well as updates to existing products, from concept to production hand-off/customer hand-off
• Manage designs within PTC Creo Parametric, PTC Windchill, SyteLine (ERP), and ECR/ECN systems
• Validate designs using engineering hand calculations, as well as using PTC Creo Simulate to perform FEA prior to prototyping phase, when applicable
• Collaborate with:
  • Sales on product definitions and project scope
  • Customer service on serviceability
  • Purchasing on sourcing components
  • Marketing on equipment aesthetics, branding, and marketing materials
  • TechDocs on technical documentation
  • Indianapolis Tooling on project prototype builds and testing
  • Production on manufacturability, tooling requirements, etc.
  • All support departments on project management for product development

Things that are Important to Have:

Below are some requirements for this specific role:

EDUCATION:  

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering required
  • BSME, or BSMET preferred

EXPERIENCE: 

• Broad mechanical background
• 3 years design engineering experience
• 3 years’ experience with PTC Creo Parametric and PTC Creo Simulate, or similar software’s

SKILLS:

• Complex assembly management
• Sheetmetal design
• Sheetmetal manufacturing experience
• Strong PDM system knowledge
• International work experience a plus
• Knowledge of ERP system
• PMP experience
• CPM, Gantt, etc.
• Ability to evaluate and develop project timelines by gathering requirement information

Software:

• Working knowledge with Microsoft O365 services
• PTC Creo Parametric, or similar 3D modeling software
• PTC Creo Simulate, or similar CAE/FEA software
• PTC Windchill, or similar PLM software
• Autodesk AutoCAD, or similar 2D modeling software
• Adobe Acrobat
• BONUS: EPLAN Fluid

If you are looking for a career, and not just a job, apply today and learn how Wood-Mizer employees are making a difference around the world and right here in Indiana.

 Wood-Mizer provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.