Job Title: Mechanical Engineer (Rockville, MD)
Temple Allen Industries (www.templeallen.com) is a small technology firm headquartered in Rockville, MD, just outside of Washington D.C., currently developing a line of smart automation products which promise to dramatically reshape the robotics, machine learning, and human augmentation landscape. The firm has enjoyed particular success in serving a prestigious list of aerospace clients in both commercial and defense sectors.
Position: Entry-Level Mechanical Engineer
We are looking for a few exceptional candidates who have graduated from a competitive program in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Robotics, or related disciplines to consider joining the elite team at Temple Allen Industries in Rockville, MD. We want someone who is eager to bring their own skillsets and personal experiences in generating mechanical designs that expand available features and deployments, emphasize ease of assembly, simplicity, and robustness, and improves the overall experience of operating an EMMA system.
You should be excited to spec out the requirements for a design and design to achieve or exceed those specs. You should be interested in learning about the full design process from designing new parts and making their drawings and inspection documents, to creating the assembly steps and procedures, and testing and validating your design delivered on its requirements. Your passion for mechanical design will help to fuel your work in improving our EMMA robotic solution. You should be excited to show off your work and well-organized so you can delegate it to the people you work with. You should want to be a part of the design process and be excited to participate in discussions with other designers and engineers to help understand the system holistically and better implement elements that bring real value to the artisan and the enterprise.
We give everyone who joins our team a lot of trust and responsibility. We operate with the assumption that everyone will do the right thing. As part of our Engineering team, you will bring your talents, energy, and dedication to the cutting edge and interdisciplinary development of industrial automation technologies that integrate unique mechanical / pneumatic tooling with a reactive automation controls methodology that incorporates Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.
Requirements:
The following items are required for an individual accepting the responsibilities of this position:
- Experience & proficiency with CAD modeling, preferably SolidWorks
- Experience generating drawings for custom parts
- Experience & proficiency working with Excel
- Knowledge of what a Bill of Material is
- Experience with assembly work
- Experience working with or generating assembly instructions
- Experience with technical writing
- Exposure to or experience with pneumatics is a benefit, but not a requirement
- Experience using a Bill of Material (BoM) is a benefit, but not a requirement for an entry level position
Expectations:
At Temple Allen, we articulate multiple levels of employee competencies and express them as tiers. Early career candidates may only be ready for tier 1 responsibilities, while more experienced candidates will typically be expected to perform tier 2 or even tier 3 tasks, as appropriate. What matters to us most is what we can count on you to do successfully, not how many years of experience you may have, though these are often correlated. We believe it is important to set up every hire for success by carefully matching expectations and competencies. The lists below will help candidates for this role understand what our expectations are:
The following items are expected tasks an individual accepting this position will be undertaking and completing:
Tier 1 Responsibilities Include:
- Populate BoM vendor tabs with all items sourced for a given project or program.
- Update BoM tabs for modules or modifications to correctly show subassemblies, labor times, method of assembly, and all associated component parts.
- Generate SolidWorks drawings for designed parts.
- Generate SolidWorks models for custom parts, assemblies, modules, and full systems.
- Generate and track new part numbers for custom parts.
- Fulfill assembly and fabrication work orders.
- Oversee and delegate small scopes of work for assembly, testing, design, drawing, and analysis.
- Conduct analyses for comparing costs, labor times, and other key specifications to help with making design decisions
- Gain an understanding of how to read and use a pneumatic schematic.
- Submit purchase order requests to procurement to get parts purchased.
- Draft the technical sections of system manual(s).
- Use knowledge gained on production floor to update Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and other documentation.
- Fulfill testing work orders and evaluate performance of mechanical and pneumatic prototypes.
Compensation: based on skills and experience
Temple Allen is a non-smoking environment.
In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $60,000.00 - $120,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
Ability to Commute:
- Rockville, MD 20850 (Required)
Ability to Relocate:
- Rockville, MD 20850: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: In person
