Structural Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Job Title: Structural Engineer
Job Description

As a Structural Engineer, you will design and develop body (floor) structures in CAD and support prototype builds. You will be instrumental in concept generation, mock-ups, and all prototype, design verification, and process verification builds. Your role will involve planning for design, procurement, assembly, and validation requirements, ensuring alignment with overall project timing and deliverables. You will ensure that designs conform to quality and cost targets, suggesting low-cost alternatives and supporting design commonization efforts. Additionally, you will collaborate in the design of body structure fixtures and lead design reviews with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop body (floor) structures in CAD.
• Support prototype builds and concept generation.
• Participate in all prototype, design verification, and process verification builds.
• Plan for design, procurement, assembly, and validation requirements.
• Ensure designs conform to quality and cost targets.
• Suggest low-cost design alternatives.
• Support design commonization efforts.
• Collaborate in designing body structure fixtures.
• Lead design reviews and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, or a related engineering field.
• Experience with structural design.
• Sheet metal experience.
• 5 years of work experience within design, preferably in the automotive industry.
• Previous assembly plant launch experience preferred.

• 5 years’ work experience in automotive body structures design is preferred.
• Experience with joining methods (welding).
• Dimensional management and understanding of GD&T preferred.

This role requires working onsite at the Winamac facility, alongside the product development engineers at a higher level. The company specializes in making vehicles wheelchair accessible and is currently working on converting SUVs like the Chevy Traverse. When hired directly, the company offers a 5% 401k match and an annual bonus of 5-10% based on company performance.

Job Type & Location

This is a Permanent position based out of Winamac, IN.

The pay range for this position is $95000.00 - $110000.00/yr.

I want to walk through what some of the great things about this position, Braunability, as well as being an Actalent consultant at Braunability. They are a large national company with multiple sites nationwide They are making major facility upgrades and automation upgrades. Their will be a variety of ways to build a variety skillsets that you can use to grow internally or take with you. They will give you automotive experience and manufacturing for consumer products as well. They have a company 401k match up to 40%. Good work environement. Ability to move up to different levels of senior engineering (categories 1-7) Through Actalent, you will have access to 2 weeks of PTO and 6 paid holidays that we provide in your first year that you can use in the entirety of 2023. We also provide multiple insurance and benefits options if needed that you can sign up for. I can send those over to you if you would like the chance to review those. Again those would be while you are on the contract portion with Braunability.

This is a fully onsite position in Winamac,IN.

This position is anticipated to close on Jun 16, 2026.

About Actalent

Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 30,000 consultants and more than 4,500 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500.

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