Job Description
Job Description
Job Description
Principal Mechanical Engineer
Location: Blaine, MN (Minneapolis Area)
Job Type: Direct Hire
Salary: $120,000 - $160,000
Job Type: Direct Hire
Salary: $120,000 - $160,000
Are you an experienced Mechanical Engineer looking to take the lead on cutting-edge automation projects in the medical device and life sciences industry? We're partnering with an industry leader in custom automation that is expanding its engineering team and looking for a Principal Mechanical Engineer to provide technical leadership on highly engineered automation systems.
This is an opportunity to influence product design, mentor engineers, and work on complex automation equipment from concept through manufacturing.
Responsibilities
- Lead the mechanical design and development of custom automated equipment.
- Serve as the technical lead on multiple engineering projects from proposal through production.
- Conduct design reviews and provide technical guidance to engineering teams.
- Develop engineering standards, best practices, and design documentation.
- Perform engineering calculations, risk assessments, and design analysis.
- Collaborate with customers, suppliers, manufacturing, and project management teams.
- Support project estimating, vendor selection, and technical sales activities.
- Mentor junior engineers and help drive continuous improvement across the engineering organization.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering (or equivalent experience).
- 10+ years of mechanical design experience, preferably in custom automation or special machinery.
- Strong machine design experience with automated equipment.
- Solid understanding of GD&T, manufacturing processes, and material selection.
- Experience with SolidWorks and FEA analysis.
- Knowledge of pneumatic system design and machine safety.
- Experience developing detailed drawings, BOMs, and engineering documentation.
- Ability to lead projects while collaborating across multiple departments.
Preferred Experience
- Medical device, life sciences, or regulated manufacturing automation.
- GAMP documentation.
- AutoCAD or DraftSight.
- SolidWorks PDM/EPDM.
- MathCAD.
- ISO 9001 environment.
- Engineering leadership or mentoring experience.
- PE license is a plus.
Why Apply?
- Direct hire opportunity
- $120,000–$160,000 base salary
- Technical leadership role with career growth
- Work on highly customized automation equipment for medical and life sciences customers
- Collaborative engineering culture with exposure to the latest automation technologies
If you're passionate about solving complex engineering challenges and want to play a key role in designing next-generation automation systems, we'd love to hear from you.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Blaine, MN |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $120,000–$160,000 Per Year |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1969 |
| Website | http://www.sterling-engineering.com |
About Company
Sterling Engineering has been a trusted partner for engineering, project management, and staffing solutions for over five decades. We provide exceptional engineering/technical recruitment and engineering project services to clients nationwide:
- Engineering & Technical Recruitment - With our focus on engineering, technical, and IT, Sterling has the in-depth knowledge, industry expertise, and robust employee pipeline it takes to rapidly find talent for even the most difficult to fill positions. Sterling’s extensive recruitment methodology allows us to engage the most talented employees in the marketplace. We offer exciting work and career-building opportunities for our candidates, along with expert support at every step of the process.
- Engineering Project Services – Our experienced, multi-disciplined team of project managers, engineers, and designers, led by licensed Professional Engineers (PE), provide project management, engineering, design, and Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) to manufacturing, OEM, and R&D customers. We work on complex, highly technical projects across a number of industry sectors, and our ability to scale and seamlessly integrate at multiple levels of your organization is what differentiates us.
Sterling offers a unique combination of engineering solutions and Best of Staffing level service to help our clients and talent achieve their goals.
Skills
- Analysis Skillsunmatched
- Automationunmatched
- Automation Systemsunmatched
- Best Practicesunmatched
- Bill of Materials (BOM)unmatched
- Biologyunmatched
- Continuous Improvementunmatched
- Design Servicesunmatched
- Documentationunmatched
- Emerging Technologyunmatched
- Engineeringunmatched
- Finite Element Analysisunmatched
- Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancingunmatched
- ISO 9001unmatched
- Illustrating Abilityunmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Manufacturingunmatched
- Manufacturing Automationunmatched
- Manufacturing Managementunmatched
- Manufacturing/Industrial Processesunmatched
- Mechanical Designunmatched
- Mechanical Engineeringunmatched
- Medical Equipmentunmatched
- Mentoringunmatched
- Multitaskingunmatched
- Process Improvementunmatched
- Product Data Management (PDM)unmatched
- Product Designunmatched
- Professional Engineerunmatched
- Project Estimatesunmatched
- Project/Program Managementunmatched
- Risk Analysisunmatched
- SolidWorksunmatched
- Standards Developmentunmatched
- Systems Engineeringunmatched
- Team Playerunmatched
- Technical Leadershipunmatched
- Technical Salesunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Selectionunmatched
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