Engineer

The Hope Group, A SunSource Company, is New England’s leading provider of fluid power and motion control solutions for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and MROs. The Hope Group has over 100,000 square feet of warehousing, fabrication, and administration facilities to complement its manufacturing capacity. We’re more than a parts distributor. Our customers rely on us to help identify and solve the efficiency and productivity challenges they face. www.thehopegroup.com

This person will plan and perform engineering duties to support the design, development and delivery of major projects and/or for projects of high complexity. Work includes creation of previously non-existent products or modifications to existing products, selection of materials, and development of calculations, bills of materials, drawings and test plans. Work also includes responding to customer requests for desired product changes and design submittals and guiding technicians during fabrication. Project work to be performed will utilize creativity and ingenuity, along with a wide range of experience to both define the technical approach to projects and complete work assignments under minimal supervision. This position may also require acting as the lead on projects guiding other engineers.

Essential functions:

• Performing calculations to meet design requirements as pertains to pressure, flow, heat removal, etc. to establish baseline system design parameters and material and labor cost estimates.
• Developing schematics, bills of material and layouts for both hydraulic and supporting electrical systems.
• Producing detailed drawings for vendor fabricated equipment such as reservoirs and other components.
• Providing customer instructional tools to include:
• Working schematics of hydraulic and electrical systems for fabrication and start up, as well as layouts and mounting instructions and dimensions.
• Various operating data such as oil pressure and flow settings, electrical point to point connections, etc.
• roviding technical guidance and assistance and working collaboratively with staff throughout the company including:
• Providing technical assistance to inside and outside salespersons, shop foreman and other shop personnel.
• Providing technical assistance to personnel as pertains to fitting and component selection, system layout, piping and other fabrication practices.
• Assisting parts coordinator with conversions of unavailable components to meet deliveries.
• Providing troubleshooting assistance and corrective action to fabricators during testing.
• Performing field service supervision and start up assistance as required to complete the overall project start up and operation requirements.
• Participating in the quality improvement process as warranted.
• Providing project management support to include:
• Monitoring, maintaining and revising project budgets to reflect the actual project costs.
• Suggesting technical improvements to projects and quote change-orders.
• Implementing, coordinating and completing change-order work.
• Communicating with multiple sub-contractors to coordinate work and maintain the overall project schedule.
• Providing on-site technical support / field supervision to ensure that work is performed properly and in a timely manner by the appropriate tradespersons.
• Maintaining project documentation and collecting sub-contractor field test data/reports in order to meet project submittal requirements.
• Attending weekly project status meetings in order to report current work process to the customer and coordinate upcoming work with all parties (i.e. customer, contractor, sub-contractors, and tradespersons).
• Responding to off-hour phone calls for technical support.
• Ability to develop PLC based control logic programming for various process control functions dictated by customer operating requirements a plus.

Education, Experience, Skills

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering
• Demonstrated experience working in a manufacturing environment (preferably with hydraulics).
• Ability to develop hydraulic schematics, select material and guide technicians in fabricating hydraulic systems.
• Understanding of relay logic industrial control panel design with ability to develop electrical schematics, select material and guide technicians in fabricating control panels.
• Proven attention to detail, excellent communicator and customer service oriented.

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