You will be the second and senior of the two mechanical engineers in the team. You will be expected to mentor more junior engineers and technicians. You should have at least some experience in most of the following areas:
Structural and Functional Design – Design and document mechanical systems applying both analysis and intuition as appropriate. Optimize for various factors and ensure compliance with requirements.
Design for operational maritime use including submerged systems – Design systems with an operator centric viewpoint that will survive and thrive in challenging maritime and submerged environments.
Produce Mechanical CAD artifacts including drawings, documentation, and revision control –
Select Manufacturing processes – Determine appropriate manufacturing processes, generate appropriate documentation for technicians or suppliers, optimize designs for the use of selected processes. We place a high emphasis on distributed and/or low tech manufacturing and tend to avoid precision machining.
Additive Manufacturing – Spear relies heavily on additive manufacturing. Design parts for additive manufacturing, understand how to optimize additive manufacturing, determine appropriate testing regimens for additive parts.
Prototyping and Troubleshooting – Build, test, and troubleshoot prototypes of designs. We believe that engineers should be heavily involved in building the first few prototypes of their own work.
Handoff to manufacturing—Develop documentation, procedures, and artifacts to transition manufacturing processes to technicians.
Operational Testing – Plan, support and participate in operational testing of prototypes including bench testing and field testing to include going to sea during early stages of your prototype testing.
Incorporate feedback – Elicit and incorporate feedback from assembly and field technicians throughout the design cycle to improve performance, reliability, and cost effectiveness. Spear currently assembles all systems on-site, providing excellent opportunities to see processes in action.