Mechanical Engineer

• Facilitate product design and engineering efforts based on company vision and market needs
• Apply Design for Manufacturing (DFM) and Design for Assembly (DFA) principles
• Perform calculations to ensure feasibility of tools, fixtures, and test system designs
• Work with the Project Manager to develop and adjust project timelines based on priorities and resources
• Develop 3D CAD models, manufacturing drawings, bills of materials, and other documentation
• Communicate project needs and timelines with the manufacturing facility
• Conduct component and assembly inspections and perform product failure analysis
• Implement company engineering standards and procedures
• Perform data acquisition, analysis, and report generation
• Identify execution issues and present risk-mitigation options to the Executive team
• Lead mechanical design work from concept through testing and production
• Collaborate with project managers and manufacturing teams to improve product performance, quality, and engineering standards

Senior Mechanical Engineer

• Lead cross-functional manufacturing execution for Physics Package and magneto-optical trap (MOT) builds by translating program milestones into integrated schedules, material and resource plans, build priorities, and daily workflows
• Drive build-readiness reviews, manage technical, material, capacity, quality, and schedule risks, and remove delivery roadblocks
• Establish project scope, deliverables, ownership, dependencies, decision paths, and status reporting for industrialization initiatives
• Facilitate planning cadences including backlog management, sprint planning, daily execution coordination, and retrospectives
• Coordinate product transitions through development and manufacturing readiness gates, ensuring plans, reviews, documentation, and acceptance criteria are completed
• Oversee development and improvement of production systems, process flows, work instructions, build travelers, manufacturing execution workflows, configuration controls, training plans, and readiness checklists
• Coordinate procurement and material readiness, including long-lead tracking, inventory availability, supplier commitments, delivery schedules, and supply-risk escalation
• Oversee approved product and process changes, aligning documentation, material disposition, build timing, validation, dependencies, and release readiness
• Develop project charters and manage cost, schedule, process, and quality improvement projects to completion
• Oversee manufacturing infrastructure projects including laboratory and production-space expansion, work cells, tooling, equipment installation, utilities, safety requirements, and capacity improvements
• Coordinate demand, staffing, equipment, and capacity planning; identify constraints and recommend priorities or recovery actions
• Define and maintain manufacturing and quality metrics including schedule attainment, cycle time, yield, rework, throughput, work-in-process, defect trends, and readiness risks
• Collaborate across engineering, production, quality, supply chain, and program management to drive hardware from development toward repeatable, scalable production

Project Engineer – Mechanical Products

• Conduct site surveys and collect technical, operational, utility, and cost data to establish project baselines and identify client needs
• Analyze facility infrastructure, utility systems, and operating conditions to identify energy, water, and operational improvement opportunities
• Perform feasibility studies and technical evaluations for utility modernization and energy efficiency solutions
• Develop project scopes, engineering assumptions, savings calculations, and investment-grade cost estimates
• Prepare technical recommendations, project economics, and supporting documentation for client proposals and decision-making
• Lead design engineering activities for approved projects, ensuring technical quality and alignment with project objectives
• Coordinate internal and external engineering resources to deliver design work on schedule and within scope
• Manage engineering support for project implementation, including design-build coordination, technical reviews, and integration of applicable incentives or funding opportunities
• Complete 95% of assigned site surveys, feasibility studies, and investment-grade cost estimates by committed deadlines, with less than 5% requiring material rework
• Develop technical scopes, project economics, and engineering recommendations contributing to at least $5M annually in qualified project opportunities
• Collaborate positively and respond reliably to clients, internal teams, and project partners
• Work across office, remote, and client-site settings; perform regular local and regional travel and occasional overnight travel
• Accommodate client schedules, site access restrictions, project deadlines, commissioning activities, or field work outside normal business hours when necessary

Senior Design Engineer – HVAC

• Provide alignment, connection, and direction to the technical team throughout the product development lifecycle
• Champion the integrated-system viewpoint during system development
• Decompose stakeholder requirements top-down and perform bottom-up system validation and verification
• Shepherd the team through technical development milestones
• Track performance measures and identify technical risks
• Lead systems engineering scope and develop systems thinking in others
• Oversee physical integration, assembly, and testing of spaceflight hardware
• Ensure structural, thermal, mechanism, and propulsion subsystems meet system-level requirements and survive harsh environments
• Drive proactive mechanical architecture decisions across the program
• Lead cohesive mechanical system and subsystem design
• Advise the SV Lead and Chief Engineer on mechanical system-level impacts and risks
• Maintain Mechanical Interface Control Documents between payloads, subsystems, and the bus
• Identify and resolve physical, envelope, and mating conflicts
• Track and report system-level mass, center of gravity, and moments of inertia
• Lead mechanical test definition and planning
• Support AI&T for mechanical nonconformances and ensure their closure
• Design mechanical systems from concept through production and flight test
• Support integration, manufacturing, ground test, and flight operations
• Improve engineering workflows, design standards, and digital engineering capabilities

Senior Systems Integration Engineer – Mechanical

• Develop an understanding of mechanical system design, modeling and documentation
• Develop proficiency using Revit and AutoCAD as design/drafting tools
• Grow in the ability to read plans
• Provide task-based support for engineering distribution, HVAC, Plumbing, Fire Protection and Energy Modeling
• Develop an understanding of drawings, specifications, building codes, and mechanical industry standards
• Complete assigned work with instruction from project team members
• Assist with construction administration
• Perform mechanical calculations and performance simulations
• Design layout of mechanical systems
• Perform other duties as assigned

Mechanical Engineer – Entry-Level

• Develop PSSE, PSLF, TSAT and PSCAD models of renewable plants
• Perform model quality tests and model benchmarking for various software models
• Understand dynamic model block diagrams and tune parameters to meet regional model performance requirements
• Support interconnection applications, including preliminary plant design, simple preliminary drawings, and application forms with design information
• Conduct preliminary system studies, including reactive power studies
• Collaborate with developer clients to understand needs, deadlines, design changes, and system operator/transmission owner feedback
• Monitor regional interconnection requirements, processes, deadlines, and queue schedules
• Respond to customer design changes, questions, and deadlines
• Stay current with regulatory changes, grid codes, ISO/RTO requirements, industry guidance, and NERC compliance standards
• Conduct voltage and frequency ride-through studies
• Support model validation for renewable projects
• Help develop tools to automate and streamline model quality tests and analyses

Mechanical Engineer jobs in Colorado

Senior Mechanical Engineer

Project Engineer – Mechanical Products

Senior Design Engineer – HVAC

Senior Systems Integration Engineer – Mechanical

Mechanical Engineer – Entry-Level

Design Engineer – Dynamic Studies and Modeling