We are seeking a Lead Professional in Mechanical Engineering to serve as a key technical contributor within the MH Fabrications team. In this role, you will contribute to the design, development, and implementation of mechanical components for wind turbines, spanning the entire product life cycle from concept creation to field support. You will apply your technical expertise to develop innovative designs, ensure compliance with pertinent standards, and deliver safe, reliable, and high-quality solutions.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities
Technical Contribution: Contribute to designing fabricated wind turbine components and resolving mechanically complex engineering challenges.
Project Execution: Support New Product Introduction (NPI) programs, technology integration, and field issue resolution with a primary focus on safety, quality, and reliability.
Product Safety and EHS: Contribute to the identification and mitigation of risks for safety-critical components, ensuring all designs meet tolerable risk levels. Support the resolution of SAFER cases by working cross-functionally to assist in the completion of action items.
Systems Thinking & Integration: Apply a "Systems Thinking" mindset to help integrate components into the overall turbine design. Assess tradeoffs and communicate the implications of component changes on the wider machine.
Compliance & Standards: Apply all relevant design practices, industry regulations, and standards to the design of mechanical components. Maintain up-to-date knowledge of engineering requirements affecting wind turbine systems.
Tool & Process Improvement: Contribute to continuous improvement of design practices and engineering tools. Apply and support standardized analysis and calculation methodologies to ensure a rigorous engineering approach across projects.
Risk Management: Actively participate in risk identification and mitigation activities, contributing to rigorous DFMEA practices to ensure that all potential failure modes are proactively identified, addressed, and validated against quality and reliability standards.
Prototyping & Validation: Contribute to the conceptualization, prototyping, and physical testing of mechanical systems. Support the resolution of technical issues or defects identified during the validation and testing phases.
Critical Soft Skills
Accountability: Takes personal ownership of the quality and integrity of individual design outputs, ensuring mechanical designs consistently meet Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost (SQDC) expectations.
Innovation: Identifies practical, well-reasoned improvements to existing designs or processes within a fast-paced engineering environment. Balances creative thinking with engineering rigor.
Proactiveness & Energy: Demonstrate a positive, collaborative energy when working across teams of diverse expertise levels, contributing to a collaborative environment focused on continuous learning and technical excellence.
Effective Communication: Ability to articulate complex technical problems in clear, factual, and simple terms across different levels of the organization.
Required Qualifications
Education: Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field.
Experience: Minimum 3-5 years of product design and development experience, ideally in the wind industry.
Technical Proficiency: Strong working knowledge of mechanical design (static, fatigue, fracture), FEM (Finite Element Method), and manufacturing processes (Sheet metal, machining, welding).
Software Tools: Strong knowledge of CAD (Unigraphics NX 3D-CAD preferred), CAE tools (Ansys, Hypermesh), and PLM tools.
Travel: Ability and willingness to travel up to 20% of the time.
Desired Characteristics
Proven track record of structured problem-solving (RCA) and Lean design principles.
Strong interpersonal skills with experience working in international, multi-disciplinary project teams (Electrical, Structural, and Systems).
Expertise in wind turbine structural components and internal mechanical systems.
