Mechanical Designer

Fives Group is seeking a Mechanical Designer

About Fives Group:
Fives Group, headquartered in Paris, France, is an industrial engineering group founded in 1812 that designs and supplies machines, process equipment and production lines for the world's largest industrial groups including the aluminum, steel, tube and pipe, glass, automotive, aerospace, logistics, cement and energy sectors. In 2024, Fives achieved sales of $2.5 billion with a team of close to 9,000 employees and a network of over 100 operational units in over 25 countries.

Responsibilities:
The following duties are typical of the position but are not all encompassing. Responsibilities include those required to deliver quality service on schedule and within budget in a team environment.

• Interprets, organizes, executes and coordinates medium assignments with the overall responsibility for budget adherence, quality control and inter-discipline coordination.
• Makes decisions independently on design problems, practices and methods, but may receive input on unusual or complex problems from the department manager or project engineer/architect for proposed design solutions.
• Produces finished plans and specifications and final acceptance or rejection of major items involving materials, equipment, manufacturer's quality and field construction results.
• Completes work on major engineering or total design work on projects of smaller or moderate scope.
• Serves as a job captain on single discipline projects and may serve as a job captain on multi-discipline projects.
• Prepares or reviews construction budgets based on experience and scope of project.
• Writes scope of work for design based on preliminary review and meetings with the customer
• May assign and review work of project design team. Checks progress of work and alerts project manager to changes of scope or additional services.
• May devise new approaches and solutions to problems encountered and communicate them to the team.
• May represent the firm in meetings and conferences to resolve important questions and to plan and coordinate a project.
• May prepare total design and construction cost estimates.
• Travel required.
• Valid driver's license required. May be waived for international assignments

Qualifications:

• Associate degree or certification of completion of other post-secondary training in engineering or fields preferred.
• Minimum fifteen (10) years' experience
• Prior experience in machine design and material handling equipment is required.
• Field experience is preferred.
• Exposure to and familiarity of packaging equipment, ductwork systems, and fabrication weldments.
• AutoCAD and Autodesk Inventor experience is required.
• Experience with SolidWorks is a plus.
• Demonstrated attention to detail.
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Valid driver's license required.

Benefits:
Hired employees will receive great benefits along with an extremely competitive compensation package. Benefits include Health, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, Holidays, Personal Time Off and 401K & IRA and more.