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Are you ready to join a team committed to health and safety with a genuine passion for great performance, which produces a premium product, and has an award-winning culture, centered around opportunities for advancement?
Then Latham, the Pool Company is the place for you. We are the largest manufacturer of fabricated pools in North America, Australia, and New Zealand. We are a public company (Nasdaq: SWIM) run on strong values and have a proven history of quality and customer satisfaction.
Every day, thousands of families in North America, Europe and Australia enjoy Latham pools and we want you to be part of making dreams come true!
With over six decades of experience in business, we have the stability of an established company allowing every employee the opportunity to learn, grow and thrive.
Mechanical Engineer, Value Engineering
Primary Role: Team up with material scientist and composite structural engineer to achieve value engineering goal in fiber glass business unit. The role will be focused on mechanical aspect of value engineering projects, lead design change, change validation and design & test document control.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Spearhead value engineering projects with Mechanical Engineering focus.
- Support material scientist, composite structural engineer and product management to develop next generation laminate and cost-effective process.
- Conduct FEA on new and existing products, interpretate the results and provide guidance for product design development and improvement.
- Develop design concept and create detail design drawings.
- Integrate GD&T principles into engineering drawings and maintain accurate records of design change.
- Build prototypes, define validation criteria, write test plan and design/build test equipment as needed.
- Conduct validate test, in lab and in installation field.
- Collect and analyze test data, draw conclusions, and write test report.
- Maintain and update BOM and validation documents, ensure compliance with both internal and external regulations and protocols.
- Assist project implementation at production floors.
- Create SOP and conduct training for adaption of design and process change in production.
- Research and development of new equipment (such as automation technology) to improve the productivity and material utilization.
- Identify and escalate opportunities for improvement of cost productivity to management.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- BS/MS in Mechanical Engineering with 3+ years of experience in composite structural design and analysis.
- Proficient with SolidWorks 3D modeling, PDM, GD&T etc. design tools.
- FEA modeling and analysis experience (ANSYS, NX Nastran preferred but not necessary), as well as applying hand calculations/handbook methods where appropriate.
- Strong understanding of structural analysis, failure modes of composite structures, how to set up structural analysis methods to ensure failure modes are clearly understood and margin to failure is quantified.
- Be comfortable developing test procedure and conducting structural testing, interpretate the results, and correlate with product performance.
- A hands-on ability to build and try new ideas.
- A strong commitment to accountability, collaboration and execution.
- A desire to establish and foster strong cross functional relationships across the company.
- Be team player, have effective written/oral communication skills, and interpersonal skills.
- Leadership to elevate risks and overcome roadblocks.
- Ability to work under pressure in fast-paced environment and manufacturing setting.
- Strong computer skills, including Outlook, Word, and Excel (including spreadsheets/databases).
- Knowledge of fiberglass/epoxy composite material and manufacturing process -Preferred
- Bilingual (Spanish and English) - Preferred
- Up to 20% overnight travel can be expected.
