Lincoln Electric is the world leader in the engineering, design, and manufacturing of advanced arc welding solutions, automated joining, assembly and cutting systems, plasma and oxy-fuel cutting equipment, and has a leading global position in brazing and soldering alloys. Lincoln is recognized as the Welding Expert for its leading materials science, software development, automation engineering, and application expertise, which advance customers' fabrication capabilities to help them build a better world. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Lincoln Electric is a $4.2B publicly traded company (NASDAQ:LECO) with over 11,000 employees around the world, with operations in 71 manufacturing and automation system integration locations across 21 countries and maintains a worldwide network of distributors and sales offices serving customers in over 160 countries.

Location: Remote - Ohio - Fort Loramie, OH, United States (US)
Employment Status: Salary Full-Time
Function: Engineering
Req ID: 24548

Candidate can reside anywhere in the United States

Position Summary: Mechanical engineer with data skills for designing, developing, and supporting objectives of Innovation and R&D department. The role is a combination of designing mechanical solutions to solve complex system problems that simplify and elevate our customers' experience and using data science to build generic reusable, repeatable platforms where behavior is defined and controlled by math models.

Role qualifications:

• Must have the ability to focus on Company quality and play an active role in reaching continuous improvement objectives.
• Focus on design and development.

Responsibilities:

• Design mechanical products for global automation applied across a broad range of applications including welding, AGV's, cutting and general industrial automation.
• Fluid and thermal dynamic modelling
• Model kinematics of articulating assemblies
• Understand how to harvest, clean and mine sensor data to establish insight to what the data is indicating to enable creation of models to manage behavior
• Application of statistical tools and techniques as needed in design and performance validation.
• Strong problem-solving skills with ability to create scalable solutions that may be applied broader group of products.
• Take ownership of assigned projects and product development within department
• Working closely with managers, engineers, manufacturing, technicians, and vendors as needed to meet quality, reliability & cost expectations for new designs.
• Conduct lab and performance testing working with technicians and providing them with written and verbal guidance.
• Suggest, approve, define materials and select vendor parts.
• Verification of designs for safety, functionality, and robustness
• MTBF analysis
• Highly organized and self-motivated with ability to work within a team environment of which many are remote.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering (master's preferred) with minimum 10 years' experience of product development in manufacturing environment
• Proficient in computer aided design (CAD) & analysis
• Statistical Tools and Techniques, Design of Experiments, Failure Mode Analysis
• Knowledge of engineering instrumentation to support data harvesting and mining.
• Experience of designing miniature mechanical solutions
• Ability to use SQL, Python & Minitab as needed.
• Strong knowledge of mechanical manufacturing processes

Reporting to this position: No direct reports

Physical demands and work environment: The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Physical demands: While performing duties of job, employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. Repetition with activity; computer work. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Work environment: The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Lincoln Electric is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to promoting equal employment opportunity for applicants, without regard to their race, color, national origin, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, including, but not limited to, lactation), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, and any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.

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