Solidworks Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

Kinectrics is a wholly owned subsidiary of BWX Technologies focused on providing life cycle management services in the energy and utility sector. We develop innovative solutions for the global electricity and medical industries, helping empower a sustainable future. Trusted by clients worldwide, our employees provide expertise in engineering, testing, and inspection across a wide range of services. With offices worldwide and independent laboratories and testing facilities, we collaborate closely with clients to ensure utility assets perform safely, reliably, and efficiently throughout their entire life cycle.
Kinectrics takes pride in being consistently ranked as one of the best places to work in the energy and utility industry, where purpose and people mean as much as innovation and growth. To keep pace with the expanding energy and utility sector, Kinectrics has grown from a company of 300 to over 1,000 in only the last few years - and we arent looking to slow down. Visit our website to learn more:
Position: Senior Mechanical Engineer
Employment Type: Permanent
Employment Level: Senior
Department: Nuclear Equipment Solutions
Reports to: Manager, Mechanical Design
Applicants with greater or less than the minimum qualifications for this posted opportunity may be considered for alternate opportunities.
At Kinectrics, employees are recognized for their knowledge, experience, and contributions while working in a highly technical and challenging environment. Kinectrics puts you in the driver's seat of your own career, setting you up alongside industry experts who will help you develop the skills essential to your professional growth in a dynamic, entrepreneurial, and rewarding work culture.
Purpose: The work we do each day helps communities around the world. Growth: To keep pace with Canada's expanding energy and utility sector, we are growing more each day, which means more opportunities for you. We encourage our employees to grow alongside our company thanks to a number of significant training and personal development opportunities.
Diversity: The company is dedicated to promoting diversity in its workforce, up to and including the senior management level. Our diversity committee ensures we stay up to date on leading trends and best practices, creating a desirable workspace for each and every one of our employees.
Other elements may also include pay for performance programs (merit pay and discretionary annual performance bonuses), comprehensive health benefits and wellness programs, membership discounts, employee referral bonus, eligibility for our pension plan, career development programs, and professional development/educational reimbursements.
Provide senior mechanical engineering leadership for the design, fabrication, procurement, integration, testing, commissioning, and troubleshooting of nuclear equipment, skid-based process systems, fusion fuel-cycle equipment.
Act as technical lead and accountable engineer for assigned mechanical scopes, including design basis development, technical decision-making, design verification, supplier technical oversight, and resolution of engineering issues.
Prepare, review, and approve design packages which may include fabrication drawings, piping and instrumentation diagrams, design calculations, general arrangement drawings, detailed fabrication drawings, technical specifications, bills of material, failure mode and effects analyses, test plans, and procurement documentation.
Perform and oversee mechanical design tasks, including equipment sizing and selection for pumps, tanks, vessels, heat exchangers, recombiners, distillation columns, dryers, humidifiers, valves, piping, supports, and related process equipment.
Generate, review, and direct CAD models and drawings using accepted engineering and drafting practices. Working knowledge of drafting software such as SolidWorks, or equivalent tools is required.
Lead functional testing, factory acceptance testing, commissioning support, field issue resolution, and engineering investigations in accordance with Kinectrics quality program requirements.
Provide technical direction to engineers, designers, analysts, suppliers, and fabrication partners while retaining individual contributor responsibility for complex design, analysis, review, and problem-solving tasks.
Interface with clients, utilities, constructors, procurement partners, suppliers, and internal stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle, from concept development through detailed design, fabrication, installation, testing, and close-out.
Integrate mechanical designs with process, instrumentation and controls, electrical, software, safety, licensing, and quality requirements to provide complete engineered solutions.
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