Mechanical Design Engineer

Our customer is seeking a Mechanical Design Engineer to design and develop high-performance enclosures, housings, and components for machine vision lighting solutions. This role is ideal for someone with strong mechanical engineering fundamentals, hands-on product development experience, and the ability to collaborate across engineering, manufacturing, quality, and supplier teams to deliver reliable, production-ready designs.

What you'll get to do:

• Design mechanical enclosures, housings, brackets, and related components for LED-based machine vision lighting products using SolidWorks and 3DExperience
• Apply DFM/DFA, tolerance analysis, material selection, sealing, and thermal design principles to create manufacturable, cost-effective designs
• Build, evaluate, and validate prototypes to confirm thermal, structural, dimensional, and performance requirement
• Collaborate with mechanical, electrical, optical, manufacturing, quality, and supplier teams throughout product development.
• Create and maintain CAD models, drawings, BOMs, specifications, test reports, and other engineering documentation.
• Support compliance, certification, supplier communication, milestone tracking, and continuous improvement activities.

Job Requirements

What you'll need:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, or a related field, or equivalent experience
• 4+ years of mechanical product design experience, ideally with electronics packaging, precision enclosures, or related products
• Strong SolidWorks skills; working knowledge of 3DExperience preferred
• Experience with prototyping, testing, validation, 2D drawings, BOMs, and engineering documentation
• Knowledge of DFM/DFA, tolerance stack-up, sheet metal, die cast, injection molded plastic, aluminum extrusion, and sealing design principles
• Familiarity with ECR/ECO processes, APQP methodology, IP ratings, CE, UL, or RoHS is a plus
• Strong communication, collaboration, critical thinking, attention to detail, and supplier-management skills

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Contract positions


Will be employed and paid hourly by iMPact Business Group. Benefits (medical, dental & vision) are available after 90 days of employment.


Permanent placed employees


Paid by and qualify for benefits in accordance with the policies of the hiring company.


Submit your resume today to be considered for this position. A recruiter will review within a business day or two and will reach back out to you if they would like to discuss next steps.

Internal Positions


We have several internal positions at iMPact that we are hiring for. Please view our internal positions here.

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