Mechanical Design Engineer

Location: Neenah, WI

Design it. See it built. Watch it run.

If you're a mechanical engineer who likes seeing your ideas turn into real equipment, this could be a great fit.

At Nercon, our Mechanical Design Engineers help turn customer needs and ideas into conveyor systems and material handling equipment that are actually built, tested, and put to work.

You won't just create drawings and send them off somewhere. You'll have the opportunity to follow your designs from concept through engineering, fabrication, assembly, testing, and ultimately installation at the customer's facility.

Whether you're just starting your engineering career or bringing several years of experience with you, we're looking for someone who enjoys solving mechanical problems, working with others, and designing equipment that has a real-world purpose.

What You'll Get to Do

You'll work alongside engineers, manufacturing, sales, applications, suppliers, and customers to develop both standardized and custom conveyor solutions.

Depending on your experience, you'll have the opportunity to:

• Design real equipment using SolidWorks, developing layouts, elevations, cross sections, components, and detailed mechanical designs.
• Turn concepts into solutions, taking customer requirements and developing practical, manufacturable conveyor and material handling systems.
• Take ownership of projects, with the level and complexity of responsibility growing with your experience.
• Work directly with customers to understand requirements, review designs, and participate in equipment acceptance testing.
• Collaborate with manufacturing, supporting your projects as they move through fabrication and assembly.
• Develop bills of material, manufacturing documentation, customer review drawings, and specifications for purchased equipment.
• Participate in testing finished equipment at our Oconto manufacturing facility before it ships to the customer.
• Help solve problems when what's on the drawing meets the realities of manufacturing.
• Look for better ways to design products and improve engineering processes.
• Occasionally travel to customer facilities for design reviews. Travel is approximately 5%.

Bring Your Experience. Or Build It Here.

We believe there are different ways to bring value to this role.

If you're early in your career, you'll get exposure to the complete engineering process and work alongside people who understand how conveyor equipment is designed, manufactured, assembled, and tested.

If you already have several years of experience, you'll have opportunities to take greater ownership of designs and projects, tackle more complex applications, and use your experience to influence how equipment is engineered and built.

Either way, this isn't a position where your work disappears after you finish the drawing.

You can walk onto the shop floor and see your designs becoming real equipment.

What We're Looking For

We're open to engineers at different stages of their careers. You might be a recent graduate ready to turn what you've learned into real equipment, or an experienced engineer looking for more project ownership, variety, and hands-on involvement.

You'll likely be a good fit if you have:

• A bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field. Candidates with an associate degree and relevant industry experience will also be considered.
• Mechanical design experience ranging from entry level through experienced engineer.
• Experience using SolidWorks.
• A solid understanding of mechanical design principles.
• The ability to read and understand equipment and plant layout drawings.
• Strong mechanical problem-solving skills.
• The ability to take an idea or concept and develop it into a finished design.
• The ability to communicate your ideas and work effectively with other engineers, manufacturing employees, suppliers, customers, and other members of a project team.
• AutoCAD experience is a plus.
• A valid driver's license with an acceptable driving record.

Experience with conveyor systems, automation, material handling, packaging equipment, or custom machinery would be especially valuable, but isn't required.

What Makes This Opportunity Different?

At Nercon, you're designing equipment that gets built.

That means you'll get to see the connection between engineering decisions and what actually happens on the manufacturing floor.

You'll work on standardized conveyor products as well as customized equipment designed around specific customer requirements. You'll also have exposure to customers, vendors, manufacturing, testing, and other parts of the engineering process.

For a newer engineer, that's an opportunity to develop quickly.

For an experienced engineer, it's an opportunity to use what you've learned and take on greater responsibility.

We're Looking for More Than CAD Skills

Good mechanical design starts with technical ability, but the engineers who thrive here also tend to be curious, practical, and willing to solve problems.

We want someone who asks questions.

Someone who likes figuring out how things work.

Someone who can take an idea and make it manufacturable.

And someone who enjoys seeing the finished equipment and being able to say: “I designed that.”

Build Something Real

If you want an engineering position where you'll have the opportunity to design equipment, solve real manufacturing challenges, work with customers and other disciplines, and see your ideas come to life on the shop floor, we'd like to talk with you.

Benefits

Nercon offers employees benefit programs that help meet current individual and family needs--as well as needs later in life.

 In addition to competitive wages, eligible employees receive nine paid holidays and more:

• Two options for health insurance (including an HSA option)
• Prescription drug coverage
• Dental insurance
• Vision coverage
• Company paid Life insurance and AD&D coverage
• Short-term disability insurance
• Confidential Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Flexible spending account
• 401(k) with Company match and with additional company profit sharing contributions
• Tuition reimbursement (full-time and part-time employees)
• Vacation in the first year of employment
• Nine paid holidays
• Safety shoes and glasses reimbursement