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Lokar, Inc. · 4 months ago

Design / Manufacturing Engineer

Knoxville, TN

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

Lokar, Inc. is seeking a confident and capable mid to senior level Design / Manufacturing Engineer who is passionate about improving legacy components and creating manufacturing processes. The role involves sustaining and managing quality aspects of existing products while developing new offerings for the aftermarket automotive industry.

AutomotiveManufacturingProduct DesignSales

Responsibilities

Join the team. Communication is vital at Lokar. Get to know your coworkers and benefit from their knowledge and experience

Become the go-to engineer for anything and everything that is quality and manufacturing related

Improve, create, and fully document the processes we use or will use to manufacture superior Lokar products

Help manage product changes and change introductions into manufacturing

Perform quality inspections for both incoming and outgoing components and assemblies, as needed

As part of the Product Development Team, assist with concept generation and map necessary process plans

Work with product engineering, manufacturing, and sourcing to complete prototype builds and to develop processes, tooling, and documentation to turn new product ideas into smoothly and efficiently manufactured components and assemblies

Qualification

SolidWorksProduct design experienceProcess design experienceGD&T familiarityBasic hand tools usageMicrosoft OfficeCommunication skillsWork ethic

Required

Bachelor's degree in engineering (Mechanical, Electro-mechanical, or related)

Product and process design experience, primarily with (some or all): machined parts, injection molded components, castings, basic electrical circuits, and mild to moderately complex mechanisms

Hands on experience, experience, experience – personal and professional; know how to use tools and possess the intellect to build, repair, modify, disassemble, etc

Logical and efficient CAD modeling skills (SolidWorks preferred); know the fundamentals; know how to best utilize planes, centerlines, relations, and imbedded equations; know when a feature should be a “revolve” and when a feature should be an “extrusion”; Pro-E/Creo or Inventor experience will allow you to pick up SolidWorks quickly

Drawings: apply best drafting practices; familiarity and usage of Y14 practices is a plus, including GD&T

Design: be able to translate design intent into efficient processes and tooling while creating readable, detailed drawing packages and manufacturing instructions

Ability to safely use basic hand tools; mill or lathe or welding experience is a plus

Capable with Microsoft Office packages