Mechanical Engineer - Sustaining
Help Engineer the Connections That Make a Difference in Patient Care!
Are you a mechanical engineer who enjoys solving problems, improving product designs, and seeing your work make a real-world impact? Join Amphenol Alden Products (AAP) and help support the innovative interconnect and cable assembly solutions used in medical devices around the world.
Our products play an important role in medical technologies that help diagnose, monitor, and treat patients. As a Mechanical Engineer - Sustaining, you'll work with customers and cross-functional teams to solve technical challenges, enhance existing products, improve manufacturing processes, and identify opportunities for cost savings.
This is an opportunity to apply your engineering skills in a growing medical technology business, collaborate with experienced professionals, and contribute to products that help improve patient care worldwide.
Ready to put your engineering skills to work where they matter? We'd love to hear from you!
What You'll Do
As a key member of our Design Engineering team, you will support established product lines throughout their life cycle while identifying opportunities to improve performance, manufacturability, and cost.
- Solve Real-World Engineering Challenges: Provide technical support to customers and AAP manufacturing facilities, investigate product questions, and help resolve design and production issues.
- Improve Existing Products: Develop product extensions and implement design modifications that enhance product performance, functionality, and manufacturability.
- Bring Designs to Life: Create and update 3D CAD models, 2D engineering drawings, and supporting technical documentation.
- Manage Engineering Changes: Prepare and support engineering change requests and orders, maintain accurate product documentation, and communicate product changes to customers.
- Drive Cost Savings: Identify and implement cost-reduction opportunities across assigned product lines without compromising product quality or performance.
- Collaborate Across Teams: Partner with Marketing, Sales, Quality, Operations, customers, and manufacturing teams to develop practical solutions and drive continuous improvement.
- Support Products Throughout Their Life Cycle: Help ensure our released products continue to meet customer requirements and business needs.
What You'll Bring
We're looking for a motivated, detail-oriented engineer who enjoys working through technical challenges, collaborating with others, and finding ways to make products better.
Required and Preferred Qualifications
- Associate degree in Engineering or a related technical field; a bachelor's degree is preferred.
- At least 2 years of related engineering experience desired.
- Working knowledge of SolidWorks CAD software.
- Understanding of engineering materials, including metals and plastics, manufacturing processes, and assembly design principles.
- Familiarity with engineering change processes and systems.
- Experience with engineering data management systems; SolidWorks ePDM experience is preferred.
- A strong work ethic, problem-solving mindset, attention to detail, and willingness to learn.
Experience That Will Make You Stand Out
- Experience in the medical device industry.
- Background in connectors, cable assemblies, or electromechanical products.
- Experience supporting released products, product improvements, or cost-reduction initiatives.
- Experience collaborating with global engineering and manufacturing teams.
Why Join Amphenol Alden?
At AAP, your work contributes to products that support medical technologies and patient care worldwide. You'll join a growing engineering team where collaboration, continuous improvement, and practical problem-solving are important to what we do.
What We Offer
Join a growing engineering team where your work contributes to medical technologies that make a difference in patient care worldwide!
- Competitive salary and bonus opportunity
- Hybrid work schedule
- Excellent 401(k) retirement savings plan to help you plan for your future
- Comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and life insurance
- Generous paid time off (PTO)
- Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options
- Employee discounts and company activities
Amphenol Alden is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the US without current or future employer sponsorship.