Location:
Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
Job ID:
Date Posted:
2026-09-02
Company Name:
WRIGHT INDUSTRIES, LLC
Profession (Job Category):
Engineering & Science
Job Schedule:
Full time
Remote:
No
Job Description:
The Opportunity:
Senior Mechanical Engineer.
Location Type: The position is onsite in Nashville, TN.
Travel Requirements: Travel up to 20%. Travel may include domestic and/or international customer, supplier, and JR Automation locations.
How You’ll Make an Impact:
- Develops deep knowledge and skills in a specific practice area
- Evaluates, selects, and applies standard techniques, procedures, and criteria to perform a task or sequence of tasks for conventional projects with few complex features
- Collaboratively uses judgement to determine adaptations in methods for nonroutine aspects of assignments
- Works on small projects or portions of larger projects
- May review the technical output of team members
- Influences team and department decisions
- Disciplined lead and contributor to facilitate successful projects
- Possesses above average oral and written communication skills
- Represents the organization in communications and conferences pertaining to broad aspects of engineering assignments
- Works under minimum supervision
- Exercises independent judgment, innovates, and works autonomously
- Recognizes and implements significant design and workflow improvements
- Recognizes engineering and automation/amusement technology-related design and workflow improvements
Note: This list of responsibilities is inclusive; however, it is intended to be a guideline for activities.
What You’ll Bring:
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or closely related discipline, or an associate’s degree (2-year) with experience from accredited program (ABET/EAC)
- 5+ years’ work experience as a Mechanical Engineer
- Experienced with CAD software (e.g., SolidWorks, Creo, NX, AutoCAD)
- Proficient in the application of standard and advanced engineering principles, practices, and procedures
- Has sufficient knowledge to supervise others
- Breadth and depth of experience to enterprise engineering problems
- Relies on extensive experience and judgment to accomplish tasks
- Able to quickly recognize and fix common engineering problems based on experience, including review and critique of others' work
- Able to lead discipline specific teams and influence project direction and progress
- Viewed as a technical expert in the department
- May serve as a mentor/coach for developing engineers
- Current or prior JR Automation experience, or experience in the automation industry is strongly preferred
- Travel required up to 20% including overnight and international
Disclaimer: JR Automation requires candidates to successfully complete a 10-panel drug screen, physical examination, and background check.
