Sr Mechanical Development Engineer at Flex in Boston, Massachusetts

Job Description:

Flex is a leading sketch-to-scale™ solutions company that designs and builds intelligent products for a connected world. With more than 200,000 professionals across 30 countries and a promise to help make the world Live Smarter™, the company provides innovative design, engineering, manufacturing, real-time supply chain insight and logistics services to companies of all sizes in various industries and end-markets. For more information please visit our careers page at www.flex.com. 

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  Industry: Electrical / Electronic Manufacturing


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  Type: Public Company


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  NASDAQ: FLEX


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  Headquarters: 2 Changi South Lane, Singapore, 486123


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  Company Size: 10,001+ employees


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  Website: www.flex.com
  

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Job Description

The Sr. Mechanical Development Engineer role will be based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Sr. Mechanical Design Engineer will be responsible to lead the mechanical design activity implementing innovative and cost-effective product solutions in order to support the organization from prototype development through full-scale production. The Mechanical Engineer will primarily support technology enablement programs to discover and grow new technologies.  These programs are hands on and operate with small cross-functional teams to quickly evaluate technologies and determine their immediate viability and strategic positioning for Flex. 

We are looking for someone who demonstrates:

• Intense collaboration


• Passionate customer focus


• Thoughtful, fast, disciplined execution


• Tenacious commitment to continuous improvement


• Relentless drive to win

Here is a glimpse of what you’ll do:

• Work closely with clients and colleagues on initial concept development, including brainstorming, sketching, and complex CAD modeling


• Support hands-on design and development of products/platforms to drive innovation for Flex and support customer engagements


• Define new mechanical product architecture, manage design parameters and design tradeoff priorities on new/ambiguous technologies


• Support the creation of product design documentation


• Be a technical lead closing the gap between Strategy, Program Management, and Technical Teams


• Collaborate with a team of cross-functional engineers and designers adopting time and cost-effective solutions and analyzing technical readiness level and manufacturing readiness level


• Provide high quality technical reports supported by simulations and/or lab tests


• Investigate new technologies and trends, assisting in generating production and technology roadmaps


• Promoter and coordinator of design reviews and DFx reviews


• Actively contribute to site goals and vision


• Mentor junior engineers

Here is some of what you’ll need (required):

• Bachelors and/or master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or similar


• Cumulative minimum 8 years mechanical design and development experience in a product and/or manufacturing environment


• Experience executing the mechanical system, subsystem and part design of products from requirement specification up to transfer to manufacturing including fabrication, testing, verification and validation of engineering prototypes


• Experienced with plastic and metal manufacturing processes and associated tolerances, material selection tradeoffs, assembly, automation, and metrology tools


• Demonstrated ability to use SolidWorks to resolve mechanical challenges


• Ability to quickly ramp up on, assess, and resolve diverse product challenges, and prioritize activity between multiple projects


• Ability to work within a cross-functional team while maintaining self-sufficiency


• Hands-on technical competency with prototyping manufacturing processes

Here are a few of our preferred experiences:

• Experience with consumer, medical, industrial, or automotive product design standards


• Experience with electrical and electromechanical systems, test equipment, and programming


• Experience or interest in textiles and/or soft goods integration

Here are a few examples of what you’ll get for the great work you provide:

• Full range of medical benefits, dental, vision


• Life Insurance


• Matching 401K


• PTO


• Tuition Reimbursement


• Employee discounts at local retailers

Job Category

Relocation

Is Sponsorship Available?

Flex does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies or fee based recruitment services. Flex is an Equal Opportunity Employer and employment selection decisions are based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. Flex does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices based on: age, race, religion, color, sex, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, pregnancy status or any other status protected by law. Flex provides reasonable accommodation so that qualified applicants with a disability may participate in the selection process. Please advise us of any accommodations you request to express interest in a position by e-mailing: accessibility@flex.com. Please state your request for assistance in your message. Only reasonable accommodation requests related to applying for a specific position within Flex will be reviewed at the e-mail address. Flex will contact you if it is determined that your background is a match to the required skills required for this position. Thank you for considering a career with Flex.

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