Senior Mechanical Engineer - Innovation

About Us:

BW Packaging is driving performance at the intersection of people, technology, and customer care. As part of the privately held Barry Wehmiller family, we unite a global team of packaging experts with a clear purpose: People Who Care, Building Solutions that Perform. We take on our customers’ toughest challenges as our own — delivering both innovative and enduring solutions that set the standard for value and performance. Our strength comes from our people and the power of our brands — trusted names in packaging that are known worldwide for engineering excellence, application expertise, and lifetime commitment to customer success. Truly Human Leadership guides our belief that exceptional business results and profound respect for people together provide the foundation of enduring success. We are committed to forging lasting partnerships with our customers, earning their trust through integrity, expertise, and execution. With our full range of packaging solutions and long term partnership and service, we help customers achieve operational excellence today while building the future of packaging together.

 

Barry-Wehmiller is a diversified global supplier of engineering consulting and manufacturing technology for the packaging, corrugating, sheeting and paper-converting industries. By blending people-centric leadership with disciplined operational strategies and purpose-driven growth, Barry-Wehmiller has become a $3 billion organization with nearly 12,000 team members united by a common belief: to use the power of business to build a better world.

 

Job Description:

GENERAL PURPOSE

The Senior Mechanical Engineer develops new, advanced, and updated mechanical systems for vertical and horizontal form/fill/seal packaging machinery and product feed systems.  The Senior Mechanical Engineer encourages others to discover, develop and apply their talents enabling them to reach their full potential, and actively engages in our Lean journey by building and acting on continuous improvement and development opportunities. 

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design responsibility for individual components to complete integrated machine systems. 
• Partner with customers and sales executives, other mechanical and electrical design engineers, manufacturing personnel and customer service technicians. 
• Research and prepare specifications
• Develop and test prototypes
• Process documentation
• Train other engineers and technicians 
• Project reporting, tracking and organization
• Lead, facilitate, and manage continuous improvement initiatives
• Other responsibilities as needed.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education:

Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Industrial Engineering from an accredited college or university (OR an Associate’s Degree with a minimum 15 years of experience in an engineering, manufacturing, or other technical position).  

Experience:

• Minimum 10 years of mechanical engineering experience with increasing levels of complexity and responsibility.
• Experience in materials, component selection, and general machine shop processes.
• Experience with increasingly complex machine and/or system design using state of the art CAD and analysis tools (SolidWorks, ProE, or equivalent).

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Prioritization: able to prioritize customer needs to develop and maintain productive customer relationships.
• Initiative:  proactive, take prompt action to accomplish objectives and achieve goals beyond what is required.
• Ambitious: eager to grow in this role and in the business.
• Dealing with Ambiguity: effectively cope with change; shift gears comfortably; decide and act without having the total picture; comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
• Team Building:  Inspire and foster team commitment, spirit, pride and trust; facilitate cooperation and motivate team members to accomplish group goals.
• Business Acumen: define and develop business strategic goals through creativity and innovation while implementing related plans.
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation communication skills with ability to leverage for effective presentations.
• Professional with customer centric focus.
• Goal oriented and driven to become an impactful contributor to the business.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills with strong attention to detail.
• Ability to interface with a variety of team members from different disciplines.
• Demonstrated ability to advance multiple projects concurrently as an individual contributor or as part of a team to develop a machine system or subsystem.
• Demonstrated effective critical thinking