Associate Design Engineer

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.

If you require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process due to a disability, you may contact the company’s Human Resources Department at (937) 399-0500.

This option is reserved for individuals who require accommodation due to a disability.

Rittal LLC and Eplan are proud to be an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. EEO, including Disability/Vets.