Title:

Senior Simulation & Analysis Engineer -- Structural Analysis

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Outdoor Power Equipment

The Senior Design & Analysis Engineer -- Structural Analysis will use their significant design and analysis background to analyze static and dynamic load cases on outdoor power equipment components and assemblies - offering fast, reliable recommendations for revisions to increase robustness and optimize weight, size, and cost. The ideal candidate will be extremely strong in mechanical design with a passion for linear and non-linear Finite Element Analysis.

Duties and Responsibilities Summary

• Directly support New Product Development and Advanced Engineering projects with Finite Element Analysis of components and assemblies, with a focus on stress/strain evaluations
• Conduct linear and non-linear finite element analysis
• Conduct modal analysis
• Conduct deflection analysis
• Conduct fatigue analysis and durability calculations
• Consult with teams on loading and boundary conditions
• Estimate or verify loading conditions based on failure analysis
• Recommend geometry or material changes for design robustness as well as weight, size, and cost optimizations
• Execute analysis on competitive parts and products
• Be highly agile -- use highly effective communication skills to quickly understand the depth of work required and provide trade-offs of accuracy versus time to complete analysis. Articulate and prioritize time constraints where needed
• Will receive analysis requests from a variety of customers -- must be strong in prioritization, timing, and scope discussions
• Mentor, train, and share knowledge to increase overall FEA capabilities of the department

Job Requirements Summary

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering
• 5+ years of mechanical design experience
• 5+ years of Finite Element Analysis experience
• Proficient in CAD -- NX, Solidworks, or similar
• Very strong proficiency in Ansys
• Ansys Fluent experience is a plus but not a substitute for professional mechanical design experience
• Ability to quickly grasp component and assembly functionality, determine load cases and constraints, and execute varied complexity levels of analysis depending on criticality and timing to New Product Development team members
• Highly motivated self-driver with never satisfied, always improving attitude
• Strong root cause and failure analysis aptitude
• Candidate must have a very strong design background paired with Finite Element Analysis experience

Overview

The Outdoor Power Equipment Structural Design Analyst will support design of new products and improvement and maintenance of existing products, for the Milwaukee Tool Outdoor Power Equipment Engineering team.

Responsibilities

This position is responsible for supporting the development of structures and mechanisms for battery powered outdoor power equipment through simulation and analysis. Tasks include but are not limited to analysis of structural concepts and existing components, dynamic analysis of components, benchmarking competitive designs. Analysis and simulations of structural systems will be accomplished using standard analysis practices utilizing linear and nonlinear FEA, dynamics, fatigue evaluations and test data processing.

In this position the analyst will analyze and virtually validate designs, assists in processes such as DFMEA, and help the design team achieve their product performance and cost goals, help resolve structural issues in test and validation activity, and help the design team achieve reliability targets and meet product development deadlines.

Position may require some travel to customer sites to gain product and functional experience. Analyst will help the design team refine their structural assemblies and concepts using structural optimization programs.

Analyst will develop, maintain, and release necessary loading criteria documents and analysis reports; will follow the departmental policies of simulation model and reports archival; will interact with the test group and align performance criteria and methods with the test procedures. Further, will work with the test group and design group to demonstrate correlation between your simulations and physical tests results. Will be required to assist the test team in data processing and deducing the durability criteria from the field tests and customer requirements

Analyst is responsible for keeping informed of engineering and industry technological developments, and evolving practices through field contacts, professional technical societies, associated conferences, and customer interfaces.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering.

5 plus years of prior work experience in design or product validation environment.
doing mechanical design or validation, proficient in a CAD software package

5 plus years of prior work experience in nonlinear FEA and fatigue analysis of on-road or off-road machine components.

5 plus years of prior work experience with the following: Ansys, Abaqus and Abaqus Explicit FEA software, Hypermesh, and Optistruct software, Fatigue Software such as Ncode, Mechanical principles, kinematics, structural materials, and standard machine and mechanism components.

Working knowledge of other analysis types such as CFD, Vehicle Dynamics, System Modeling, NVH, Soil Modeling, particle flow, DEM, gear and transmission analysis, and analysis of rotational components.

The ideal Candidate will have:
A positive attitude, strong drive to achieve goals and succeed,

Ability to learn and demonstrate proficiency in new global processes and systems.

Strong problem-solving skills and attention to details

A working knowledge of general computer applications (Excel, Word, etc.)

Experience in structural design, rubber component design, vehicle ride quality & NVH a plus.

Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering

Ability to effectively communicate (verbal and written) issues, problems, and observations of work being performed.

Additionally, ability to communicate across multiple levels and work groups

Demonstrated ability to work with cross discipline teams as well as being a strong individual contributor.

Ability to work with minimal supervision managing multiple projects and tasks.