Senior Equipment Design Engineer
Job Overview
We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.
As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.
When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.
As Senior Equipment Design Engineer you will be responsible for;
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- Uses engineering tools to design/analyze hardware for product assemblies: changes, new development, unitization, and integration
- Design manufacturing equipment and fixtures in-house
- Composite bonding and aircraft assembly tooling design.
- Create RFQ packages for procuring equipment from suppliers.
- Manage supplier equipment deliverables.
- Work closely with the supply chain to procure all components for designed equipment.
- Coordinates with manufacturing and design to deliver on project scope, schedule and services
- Oversee technician/operator training on the equipment
- Processes data, writes engineering reports, and diagnoses equipment system malfunctions.
- Implement process control parameters and strategies to ensure process capability
- Contributes to reliability analysis such as risk assessments, FMEA, etc.by gathering and examining data.
- Define and execute product verification/validation testing
- Assists Manufacturing during assembly and production testing
- Participate in early prototype product builds to characterize and develop both product and process critical parameters.
- Support first unit builds and testing of the production system
What you need:
- 5+ year work experience and Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial Engineering, Mechatronic, or a equivalent & related practical experience
- Experience commissioning and improving equipment.
- Understanding of Lean Manufacturing
- Proficiency using 2D & 3D CAD to generate manufacturing layouts, assembly models, and detailed part drawings for fabrication.
- Demonstrated experience in statistical process control and GD&T
- Excellent communicator, both in presentations and written reports.
- Able to maintain organization and focus in a highly dynamic environment.
- Prefer ability to travel 10% of the time, both domestically and internationally.
Bonus Qualifications:
- Development of the Electric Motor (Engine) equipment and manufacturing
- Prior internships or full-time experience in Aerospace manufacturing engineering or similar role.
- NX software experience
- Experience developing production lines from prototype to production.
- Experience with PLM, MES, and ERP software.
- Direct experience programming and troubleshooting industrial automation (PLC, robots, gantries, etc…
Salary Range: $115k-$135k
The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, the candidate’s combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience
MANDATORY FOR ALL REMOTE/HYBRID AND/OR CALIFORNIA, COLORADO, MARYLAND, CONNECTICUT, ILLINOIS, MINNESOTA, VERMONT, MASSACHUSETTS, NEVADA, NEW YORK, RHODE ISLAND, WASHINGTON STATE & CINCINNATI, OHIO, JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, TOLEDO, OHIO BASED ROLES.
Note: Due to the nature of the work, only US Persons (citizens or permanent residents) need apply for this position. - OPTIONAL
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