Job Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Client designs, develops, manufactures and markets orthopedics products, including knee, hip, shoulder, elbow, foot and ankle artificial joints and dental prostheses. client has operations in more than 40 countries around the world.
Job Title: Mechanical Test Engineer - Development
Work Location: Minnetonka, MN
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Job Description:
What You Can Expect:
- The Test Engineer Development - Mechanical supports R&D activities for capital equipment, instruments, disposables, and related medical-device subsystems.
- This hands-on role partners with engineers to create and refine prototypes, develop test fixtures and methods, execute engineering testing, maintain design documentation, and provide practical feedback on manufacturability, fit, function, tolerancing, and design robustness.
How You'll Create Impact:
- Create, build, modify, troubleshoot, and test mechanical and electromechanical prototypes, assemblies, fixtures, and subsystems in support of product development.
- Support mechanical design iteration through prototype fabrication, assembly, fit checks, tolerance evaluation, design-for-manufacturability feedback, and structured troubleshooting.
- Design and construct engineering test fixtures and development tooling using machining, additive manufacturing, hand fabrication, and commercially available components as appropriate.
- Set up and execute engineering tests for design characterization, design verification, reliability, and process validation; accurately collect and document test data and observations.
- Assist engineers with development and improvement of test methods, including fixture definition, equipment selection, method repeatability, and clear acceptance criteria.
- Read, interpret, and provide practical feedback on mechanical drawings, CAD models, specifications, tolerances, GD&T, and bills of material.
- Support creation, revision, and release of engineering documentation including drawings, test methods, protocols, reports, work instructions, and design records.
- Operate, troubleshoot, and maintain R&D laboratory equipment, measurement tools, prototype fabrication equipment, and test systems; help maintain an organized and compliant engineering lab.
- Perform dimensional and functional inspection of prototype components using appropriate metrology tools; clearly communicate deviations, anomalies, and opportunities for design improvement.
- Coordinate prototype builds, test setups, equipment availability, and test execution to support project schedules and engineering priorities.
- Work cross-functionally with Systems, Electrical, Software, Disposables, Operations, Quality, and suppliers to resolve technical issues and support product-development deliverables.
- Follow approved procedures, protocols, good documentation practices, and applicable quality-system requirements.
Required Education:
- Associate degree, technical diploma, or certificate in mechanical engineering technology, manufacturing engineering technology, electromechanical technology, machining, or a related technical discipline; equivalent practical experience may be considered.
- 3+ years of relevant experience as an engineering technician, mechanical technician, prototype technician, or equivalent hands-on technical role preferred.
- Experience in medical devices or another regulated industry with exposure to GMP, ISO, FDA, or comparable quality-system requirements is preferred.
Preferred Experience:
- Experience supporting medical-device R&D, new product development, design verification, and/or reliability testing.
- Experience with SolidWorks, GD&T, tolerance stack-up concepts, prototype machining, additive manufacturing, and mechanical test equipment.
- Experience creating or improving engineering fixtures, test methods, and prototype build processes.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Minnetonka, MN |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $56.01 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.Skills
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