Mechanical Engineer - Electrical Packaging

 A leader in transportation is looking to join there team and lead the charge on validation and qualification of new electrical equipment, components, and assemblies, with focus on mechanical and thermal performance, and electrical functional tests.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering or related engineering field.
• 10+ years demonstrated experience in the field of electronics mechanical packaging and thermal design.
• Experience and demonstrated proficiency with:
• Designing printed circuit boards, supporting component layout, integrating mechanical design features for component support in a high vibration environment, and defining proper thermal features in the board to support heat conduction from the components to maintain proper operating temperatures.
• Designing mechanical enclosures and circuit board assemblies for shock and vibration loads.
• Designing and selecting components to support circuit board to chassis and circuit board to backplane connections.
• Design and selection of board level mechanical components. 
• Selection and integration of connectors and related components.
• Designing cast and molded components.
• Design of machined and fabricated components.
• Experience with heat transfer through conduction, natural convection, and forced convection applications and related techniques for electronics.
• 3D CAD Modeling tools.
• Thermal simulation tools, such as Icepak.
• Finite element simulation tools for mechanical loads, such as Ansys.
• Ability to travel 10% of the time.
• Must be able to work in and around large pieces of ground transportation equipment, in a heavy industrial manufacturing setting, and in a heavy industrial laboratory environment. 
• Must be able to set up instrumentation and test apparatus and conduct validation testing on large industrial transportation and mining vehicles.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.

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