Please note: this position is located onsite in Hampton, VA - candidates must be local or willing to relocate within 3-4 weeks of a job offer.

Targeted Compensation:

$70,000 - $90,000

Job Summary:

Insight Global is seeking a Mechanical Engineer to support a large manufacturing client in Hampton, VA. The ideal candidate would be an entry-level college graduate with strong internship/co-op experience.

• As a Product Engineer, you will be responsible for all dimensional characteristics and tooling pertaining to the investment casting process and our products.
• This may involve both new development and production castings.
• In this role, you will be teamed up with a Process Engineer who will be responsible for the metallurgical aspects of the process.
• The prime responsibility for this position is to engineer the highest yield and lowest overall cost product while meeting or exceeding all customer defined quality requirements.
• In this position, you will work in a team environment with other engineers as well as hands on with the manufacturing team so strong communication skills are needed.

Typical Functions and Job Responsibilities:

• Follow Safety Regulations
• Oversee manufacturing tooling design, construction, and implementation
• Optimize dimensional yields of castings at minimum manufacturing cost
• Create manufacturing routing and processing instructions
• Develops and debugs processes for production and developmental castings Prepares First Article Inspections to qualify parts
• Actively pursues the continuous improvement of existing processes
• Supplies technical support to customers and interacts with them regarding technical concerns.

Required Skills & Experience

• Reads, analyzes, and interprets technical procedures and drawings.
• Effectively writes work instructions, reports, business correspondence, and procedures.
• Presents information and respond to questions from groups of managers and/or customers.
• Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis. Solves practical problems and deals with a variety of variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication skills are required.
• The ability to effectively work with all levels of the organization to achieve your goals are required.
• This employee must be self-motivated to continue to drive improvement in their assigned portfolio of parts.

Desired Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical Engineering strongly preferred) from an ABET accredited four-year college or university.
• Strong Co-Op or internship experience, preferably within a manufacturing environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Investment casting experience
• Solid Works and NX CAD proficient Minitab/statistics knowledge
• Strong Excel capabilities
• Technical manufacturing experience
• Experience in tooling design and/or dimensional inspection/Metrology