Illinois Tool Works

Development Engineer

Illinois Tool Works • $80K — $110K *
Hatfield, PA 19440In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
1 month ago
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS in Engineering or Physics required; MS preferred.
  • 5-10 years of engineering experience, with 10+ years preferred.
  • 5+ years in New Product Development for precision mechanical design or flow/pressure instrumentation required.
  • Strong troubleshooting skills for complex systems including electrical, mechanical, and software components.
  • Proficient in MS Teams, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook. Basic programming knowledge, including Python.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and build mechanical, electrical, and pneumatic test systems for products.
  • Collaborate across engineering disciplines to optimize designs and assembly processes.
  • Support system integration, debugging, and performance validation of hardware/software interactions.
  • Analyze system requirements to guide new product development.
  • Participate in building system requirements, specifications, DFMEA, and PFMEA.
  • Work with teams to develop requirements and processes focusing on manufacturability and project timelines.
  • Review circuit schematics for hardware/software co-design and propose optimizations.

Benefits

  • Health and dental insurance
  • Company paid life insurance
  • Short and long term disability
  • 401K plan with generous company match
  • Vacation, personal days, and holidays
  • Continuing education reimbursement program
  • Flexible spending accounts
Full Job Description
Job Description:

Brooks Instrument (www.brooksinstrument.com), an industry leader in flow and pressure instrumentation for critical applications, is seeking candidates for a Development Engineer position that will be based at the company headquarters in Hatfield, Pennsylvania (suburban Philadelphia). The company has manufacturing locations in Pennsylvania, Hungary, Malaysia and Korea, and also maintains sales and service offices throughout the world. Our high-tech products are used in laboratory and process applications in end markets such as: oil & gas, petrochemical, medical devices, waste water, life sciences, and analytical instruments.

Basic Function

The Development Engineer is responsible for the design, development and support of products and systems for the Brooks Instrument New Product Development team. The successful candidate must be self-directed, highly motivated, and organized with strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
  • Develop/design/build mechanical, electrical, and pneumatic assembly and test systems for new and existing products.
  • Collaborate Cross functionally with Electrical, Firmware, Test, and Manufacturing Engineering to optimize designs for performance and manufacturability and to develop assembly processes.
  • Support system integration activities, including debugging and performance validation of hardware/software interactions.
  • Analyze and interpret system requirements to guide the development of new products
  • Participate in System requirements building, product requirements, specifications, DFMEA and PFMEA.
  • Work with automation groups, manufacturing engineering, and operations to develop assembly process, functional requirements for new manufacturing stands focusing on manufacturability, RTY, and supporting NPD project timelines.
  • Review and analyze circuit schematics and layouts to support hardware/software co-design and propose circuit optimizations to facilitate firmware development.
  • Work with mechanical engineering team to analyze mechanical parts and fluid dynamic systems and use both theoretical and empirical methods to develop and optimize flow measurement and control algorithms used in our products.
  • Develop and execute test plans and automated test systems to validate firmware and system-level performance.
  • Direct and or perform design verification and validation testing of new designs.
  • Design assignments may be occasionally broad in nature, requiring originality and ingenuity.
  • This position is 100% on-site in Hatfield PA.
  • Other duties as assigned.


Education and Experience
  • BS in an Engineering Discipline or Physics required. Masters of Science preferred.
  • 5-10 years experience in Engineering. 10+ years preferred
  • 5+ years experience in New Product Development of high precision mechanical design or flow/pressure component/instrumentation required.
  • Ability to make technical contributions to a multi-disciplinary team required.
  • Ability to design and assemble mechanical parts and fittings
  • Excellent ability to troubleshoot complex systems including electrical, mechanical, and software components.
  • Proficiency in MS Teams, Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook required.
  • Basic programming knowledge, including ability to write Python scripts, ability to read and interpret software code, as well as write and communicate pseudo-code required
  • Ability to lead and manage small scale projects required.
  • Ability to read and understand detailed technical (electrical and mechanical) drawings and specifications required.
  • Experience working in a cleanroom environment a plus.
  • Experience with System Engineering and modeling a plus (MatLab/Simulink/Embedded Coder).
  • Experience with mass flow control systems and/or other control systems highly desirable


Related Experience or Training
  • Process control instrumentation
  • Metrology
  • Data collection and analysis
  • Calibration of process instrumentation
  • Technical report writing
  • 3D CAD Modeling, Production level Drawing generation and CAD database experience desired using SolidWorks, AutoCAD a plus
  • Matlab, LabView, C# experience a plus.


Benefits

Our employees enjoy competitive, merit-based salary plus excellent benefits including:
  • Health and dental insurance
  • Company Paid Life Insurance
  • Short and Long Term Disability
  • 401K plan with generous company match
  • Vacation, personal days and holidays
  • Continuing education reimbursement program
  • Flexible spending accounts


The opportunity to join a well established (80 years in business) yet dynamically changing organization that works together as a team to meet the challenges of satisfying customers' needs and managing rapid growth to better compete in a global marketplace.

About Illinois Tool Works

ITW is an industrial manufacturing company that specializes in the fields of industrial machinery, engineering, operations, sales, marketing, finance, and accounting. It's in deep-sea oil rigs, aerospace technology, bridges and wind turbines, healthcare, the spaces in which they live and work, the cars they drive, and the mobile devices they rely on. It was founded in 1912 and headquartered in Glenview Nas, Illinois.

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Learn more about Illinois Tool Works
Size
45,000 employees
Market Cap
$68.1 billion
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
Net Income
$2.1 billion
Founded
1912
5 Year Trend
+1.2%
Revenue
$12.5 billion
NASDAQ
ITW
* Ladders Estimates

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