Mechanical Engineer - Burnaby, Metro Vancouver Regional District, Canada - OSI Maritime Systems

Description

The Role

The Mechanical Engineer is part of the engineering team that develops marine navigation and bridge systems for OSI's government and naval markets that offer market leading performance and reliability, minimize production costs and are maintainable over an extended lifecycle. The Mechanical Engineer 3 designs, selects, evaluates and documents mechanical components and their interconnection within the bridge systems.

Key Responsibilities

1. Performs studies, experiments, research and tests in contributing to the design and development of navigation and bridge system products to established codes, standards, drawings, specifications and customer requirements, for both commercial and military customers
2. Creates and updates mechanical designs based on COTS, military grade products and customized solutions which includes the design and specification of parts and components
3. Assist with writing and maintaining Company's mechanical engineering standards and best practices
4. Trains and mentors Junior Mechanical Engineers on Company's mechanical standards and best practices
5. Updates and maintains the Company's parts database
6. Reviews hardware requirements, produces hardware design documents, ensuring the proposed solution meets the stated requirements
7. Creates mechanical designs and provides information to CAD team members for drawing production
8. Reviews designs for adherence to industry and government standards
9. Prepares written plans, calculations, designs, specifications and material lists
10. Carries out technical tasks requiring accuracy of calculations, completeness of data and adherence to prescribed methods
11. Interprets and analyzes design data in preparing feasibility studies and prepares reports for assigned work, resolving technical problems within the scope of the assignment
12. Provides design information and guidance to support personnel, and occasionally to suppliers, in preparation of detailed design, design testing and prototype fabrication
13. Ensures that the resulting design meets system, customer and budgetary requirements and is compliant to industry and government standards
14. Clearly communicates technical and design solutions to other departments
15. Executes engineering change request (CRs) as well as providing supporting justification data
16. Reviews, approves and analyses drawings produced by the Project Team

You Bring

Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field plus 5+ years of practical mechanical engineering experience

Experience with mechanical design and design for manufacturing

Experience with vibration, shock, thermal, and structural analysis (FEA and MathCAD)

Working knowledge of product certification testing to civilian and military standards

Proven ability to analyze and solve hardware problems

Experience with SolidWorks and AutoCAD

Experience with MS Office Suite and SharePoint

Working knowledge of peripheral equipment, test, diagnostic and measuring equipment

Ability to thrive as a member of a Project team

Organized, able to handle multiple projects and prioritize workload

Working knowledge of certification to standards – knowledge of Shipbuilding codes an asset - for example: Lloyds Rules

Ability to design in a strategic manner taking into consideration reliability, ease of manufacture, and cost