TrellisWare is seeking a Mechanical Engineering Manager to lead a team of Mechanical Engineers in conceiving, developing, producing, and maintaining radio products and mechanical solutions for handheld tactical radios, accessories, and other communications equipment.
Requirements
- Experience designing portable, rugged devices that require balance between ruggedness, size/weight, and recurring cost.
- Understand various material (metal, plastic), fabrication processes (CNC machining, casting, molding, injection etc) and their cost/performance tradeoffs
- Experience with electro-mechanical design considerations.
- Experience interfacing with Industrial Designers
- Ability to manage external vendors, including industrial design firms, rapid prototype vendors, and full production vendors.
- Understand low volume, medium volume, and high-volume product design considerations.
- Experience in using Solidworks and/or other 3D CAD software.
Responsibilities
- Provide leadership, mentorship, and expertise to the Mechanical Team.
- Take ownership of the mechanical design of radio products and accessories.
- Define, derive, and document mechanical system requirements.
- Explore feasibility and applicability of new technologies, materials, processes to add to our mechanical design toolkit on both new and existing designs.
- Oversee creation and release of fabrication and assembly drawings.
- Design, document, and execute mechanical engineering development processes.
- Manage external vendors, including industrial design firms, rapid prototype vendors, and full production vendors.
Other
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or related field of study required. Master's degree a plus.
- At least 10 years of applicable product development and manufacturing engineering experience for high technology electronics/communication products.
- U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Residency
- Ability to foster a culture of hard work, trust, and respect that is consistent with company values.
- Strong interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence.
