Mechanical Engineer 3

Mechanical Engineer

Location: Mossville, IL 61552 Duration: 18 Months

Position's Contributions to Work Group:

Major Job Duties & Responsibilities: Position is focused on project management & sustainable value creation of global hydraulics and cab components. Activities encompass collaborating with the global engineering team, hydraulic component suppliers and procurement professionals to identify and deliver product value on business investments. Responsible for maintaining the department's sustainable value creation dashboard, summarizing large data sets and extracting business opportunities to execute. Technical communications and ability to share results in leadership presentations are necessary.

Secondary job responsibilities include serving as product design engineering lead for purchased finished, supplier designed component new product introduction projects. Role would focus on leveraging hydraulics component engineering processes, technical and commercial competencies and require collaboration with supplier and company representatives.

Desired engineering skills include understanding machine hydraulic system architecture and components, manufacturing processes and global sourcing combined with ability to apply specialized technical information to understand functional requirements, identify trends, draft detailed component requirements and improvement projects, evaluate material properties, complete design analysis/verification activities, lead detailed collaboration sessions with multiple teams, and conduct technical design reviews.

Reason/motivation for request: Backfill

Interaction with team: Workday expectations are aligned with the regional product development teams to enable collaboration during core business hours.

Team Structure: 30-35 mix of FTE and agency workers

Work environment: Office environment

Education & Experience Required: Years of experience: 5+ years industry experience - 3 years - Masters - Degree requirement: Bachelor's degree in an accredited Engineering curriculum preferred, but open to considering an applicant with an Applied Engineering or Technical Business background - Do you accept internships as job experience: No - Are there past or additional job titles or roles that would provide comparable background to this role: Mechanical, Design Engineer, Project Team Leader

Top 3 Skills:

• Advanced proficiency with collaboration/project management methods and Microsoft Office programs (e.g. SharePoint, Teams, Excel, PowerBi, etc.)
• Ability to conduct analysis on large data sets, quickly summarize key results/trends and incorporate into stakeholder reports.
• Basic knowledge of a full product development lifecycle: business value, systems interactions, requirements gathering, functional specification authoring, product development methods, testing/validation and value stream engineering.

Additional Technical Skills (Required):

• Advanced proficiency with collaboration/project management methods and Microsoft Office programs (e.g. SharePoint, Teams, Excel, PowerBi, etc.)
• Ability to conduct analysis on large data sets, quickly summarize key results/trends and incorporate into stakeholder reports.
• Basic knowledge of a full product development lifecycle: business value, systems interactions, requirements gathering, functional specification authoring, product development methods, testing/validation and value stream engineering.

(Desired): Experience with modeling applications such as CREO and ability to read and interpret blueprints, technical drawings, schematics and analytical reports. Working knowledge of hydraulic components or systems desired.

Soft Skills (Required): Highly competent in both verbal and written communications, problem solving, customer service and interpersonal skills. Basic ability to lead team meetings, work effectively in a team environment, independently and efficiently manage one's time, and taking initiative in completing deliverables. Detail oriented, analytical, innovative with problem solving ability and operating with urgency.