**Position Summary**:
- The Mechanical Design Engineer I within our Production Engineering team is responsible for designing customer specified custom switchgear distribution reclosure and overhead switches products to our G&W's quality standard.
This position will specialize in our entire catalog of overhead and underground switchgear products.
G&W is excited to engage a self-motivated and results-oriented individual to join our fast-paced, collaborative work environment that offers consistent learning opportunities and problem-solving experience.
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**Essential/Primary Responsibilities**:
- _Design to order per customer provided specification within a team environment._
- _Provide design competency to industry standards (IEEE, NEC, IEC, ANSI, UL, NEMA, etc.)
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- _Design products to internal engineering design standards and best practices within customer lead time and quality expectations_
- _Coach, maintain and assist technical aptitude among design team members._
- _Be a change agent in department and company by identifying and resolving root causes through problem solving activities._
- _Provide technical support for internal and external customers.
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- _Collaborate cross-functionally to support and provide technical aptitude for company and departmental projects as needed (e.g.
Product Development, Aftermarket Support, Application Engineering, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing)._
**_Required Experience_**_:_**
- _Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering or Relevant Discipline_
- _Experience in 2D and 3D design (CAD)._
- _Excellent written and verbal communication skills and has demonstrated presentation skills to diverse audiences in Spanish and English_
- _Strong analytical design and quantitative problem-solving skills_
**Preferred Experience**:
- _CREO CAD Software experience_
- _Sheet Metal design experience._
- _Leadership and Training _
- _Change Management experience._- _Continuous improvement initiatives_
- _Root Cause Analysis / Problem-Solving strategies_
- _ISO Certified Manufacturing Environment experience _
- _Reliability Design Tools_- _Design For Manufacturability (DFM), Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA), Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerance (GD&T), Design of Experiments (DOE)_
- _Experience with Oracle J.D.
Edwards Business System_
- _Experience with Industry Standards _
- _Related power distribution experience_
- _Leadership and Training_