Mechanical Design Engineer

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This position reports to

Engineering Manager

Your role and responsibilities

Join ABB's fastest growing division as a Mechanical Design Engineer, designing customized low and medium voltage variable frequency drive solutions for some of the world's most critical applications. From concept to completion, you'll ensure compliance, optimize designs, and deliver quality, cost-effective solutions that meet customer requirements. The work model for the role is: Hybrid #LI-Hybrid You will be mainly accountable for: • Technical Contribution & Leadership: Create mechanical engineering designs, including drawings and layouts, to meet customer specifications. Support design reviews, validate solutions, and adjust standard designs where necessary. Assist in communication with customers and the sales support team regarding specific project design assignments or meetings. • Task Management & Collaboration: Identify and prioritize customer requests to support project requirements. Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to provide innovative solutions to customers' technical problems. You'll work closely with a dynamic team of engineers to execute projects that meet industry standards while maintaining exceptional quality and reliability. • Planning, Control, Processes and Tools: Follow work plans and cost estimates for mechanical design responsibilities, ensuring quality deliverables are on time and within budget. Adhere to ABB procedures, design methodology, and assist in developing new processes or tools to maximize quality and efficiency • Customer Engagement & Supply Chain Management: Attend project meetings and present specific aspects of design assignments. Collaborate closely with other organizational functions, sourcing, and manufacturing teams, on diverse customer projects. Provide design-related evaluations of proposals for standard materials and equipment.

Qualifications for the role

• Bachelor Degree in Engineering with a minimum of 3 years of professional experience in an engineering role including executing multiple projects of scope and scale simultaneously is required.
• Preferred Experience Includes: Background and knowledge of variable frequency drives or power electronics packaging, Working knowledge of agency standards like UL, IEC, ANSI, etc., Experience with mechanical design tools such as PTC Creo, AutoCAD, Solid Edge, PLM experience in SAP and PTC Windchill, Experience in Sheetmetal design, busbar design, advanced assembly modelling.
• Up to 10% travel may be required, to visit other plants, suppliers, and authorized manufacturing centers.
• Candidates must already have a work authorization that would permit them to work for ABB in the US.

More about us

ABB System Drives is the market leader in high-power, high-performance drives, drive systems and packages for industrial process and large infrastructure applications, and a leading supplier of power conversion equipment for renewable energy and other applications. The Division offers global support to help customers, partners and equipment manufacturers with asset reliability, performance improvement and energy efficiency in mission critical applications. We value people from different backgrounds. Apply today for your next career step within ABB and visit www.abb.com to learn about the impact of our solutions across the globe. #MyABBStory We look forward to receiving your application. If you want to discover more about ABB, take another look at our website www.abb.com. Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action at ABB ABB is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Affirmative Action Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, creed, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, citizen status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status, family medical leave status, or protected veterans status. For more information regarding your (EEO) rights as an applicant, please visit the following websites: https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/EEOC_KnowYourRights_screen_reader_10_20.pdf https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/OFCCP/pdf/pay-transp_%20English_formattedESQA508c.pdf As an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, applicants may request to review the Affirmative Action Plan of a particular ABB facility between the hours of 9:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. EST Monday through Friday by contacting an ABB HR Representative at 1-888-694-7762. Protected veterans and qualified individuals with a disability may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access ABB's career site as a result of your disability. You may request reasonable accommodations by calling an ABB HR Representative at 1-888-694-7762 or by sending an email to US-AskHR@abb.com. Resumes and applications will not be accepted in this manner. myBenefitsABB.com