Associate Design Engineer
Location: Urbana, Ohio
Rittal LLC has built a strong tradition of innovation and takes pride in a progressive approach to engineering. We design and manufacture the world’s leading industrial and IT enclosures, racks, and accessories, including high efficiency, high-density power management, and climate control systems for industrial, data center, outdoor and hybrid applications.
As the Associate Design Engineer, you will be providing technical surveillance of critical safety items, approved sources for these items and the oversight of the design configuration baselines for the fielded systems. Ensuring continued certification compliance is what helps us keep doing what we do best! We need someone who enjoys identifying opportunities, providing solutions and systematically keeping up with certification standards. Our success comes from collaboration with everyone in our facility and our customer-first mentality.
This is a great opportunity to develop and grow in the design engineering field.
Responsibilities:
- You are responsible for the design maintenance and production support for products, which have been or are released to manufacturing.
- You will perform engineering evaluations and determine solutions for design-related causes of production issues.
- You will perform engineering evaluations to support alternate component or part qualification to mitigate component or part end of life.
- You will conduct engineering evaluations to support product cost reduction goals.
- You have the opportunity to participate in the change control process to assess, approve, and implement changes to local and global products.
- You get to collaborate with the Quality teams to identify, correct, and prevent product reliability issues.
- You will lead or participate in Continuous Improvement Project opportunities in key measurement areas; speed, cost, quality, and productivity.
Knowledge & Experience:
- We prefer a 2-year AS Mechanical Engineering Technology degree with 1 to 3 years product design experience.
- Experience with assembly production methods, fabrication of sheet metal, metric units, MIG and TIG welding, powder coat, e-coat and other metal finishing processes preferred.
- Knowledge of industry regulatory requirements such as UL/CE/NEC/VDE and performance measures such as NEMA/IEC/ANSI is A PLUS!
- We seek a professional with experience in 3D solid and 2D CAD engineering design tools, ProEngineer Creo 3.0, and AutoCAD Inventor. Familiarity.
- Most importantly, we are looking for someone who is eager to grow and learn. Someone who sees an opportunity and silver lining in everything.
What we offer is an opportunity to be a part of a team that increases the optimization and efficiency of our Global Company. Our goal is to create a safe work environment that our customers can trust us to deliver quality products. We enjoy all the benefits of an international company quickly growing in the US.
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What We Do
Rittal North America LLC is the U.S. subsidiary of Rittal GmbH & Co. KG in Germany and was founded in Springfield, Ohio in 1982. Its parent company, Rittal, was started in Germany in 1961 and has grown to include offices in more than 70 countries and manufacturing facilities on 4 continents.
Rittal North America LLC's U.S. Headquarters, located in suburban Chicago, Illinois, is a state-of-the-art facility that serves as a customer training center, including expanded teaching resources, product testing facilities and a large-scale product showroom where customers can have a hands-on experience with the entire Rittal System. Rittal North America LLC's manufacturing center of excellence facility in Urbana, Ohio, consists of more than a half-million square feet of space to ensure that customers' production and stocking requirements are fully met. Lastly, Rittal North America LLC's distribution centers in Georgia, Texas and Nevada enable Rittal to meet the needs of its customers quickly and reliably.
Situated on a 105-acre campus, Rittal North America LLC's manufacturing facility is filled with state-of-the-art equipment and processes, and contains in-house engineering and modification services, as well as the longest non-automotive paint line in North America, stretching more than 3 miles within the confines of the factory. The on-site warehouse is outfitted with an 8-story Automated Storage & Retrieval System.
Rittal manufactures the world's leading industrial and IT enclosures, racks and accessories, including high efficiency, high density climate control and power management systems for industrial, data center, outdoor and hybrid applications. Rittal's off-the-shelf standard, modified standard and custom-engineered products are known throughout the world as high quality, affordable solutions for practically any industrial or IT infrastructure application - from single enclosures to comprehensive systems.
Rittal is ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 14001:2004 certified.
