Mechanical Engineer

• Provide failure analysis and forensic consulting services requiring mechanical engineering expertise
• Evaluate injury, equipment, and property damage claims involving products, heavy equipment, machines, HVAC, plumbing, fire suppression, and other mechanical systems
• Prepare oral and written reports of findings, provide technical guidance to clients, and deliver expert testimony when needed
• Perform failure analysis for forensic assignments according to agreed scopes of work and budgets
• Investigate incidents to identify origin, failure mechanism, root cause, and the role of the mechanical system
• Inspect sites, products, equipment, and systems
• Retrieve and analyze electronic data from commercial and non-commercial equipment
• Document site and product conditions and determine damage cause and origin
• Conduct site surveys using total stations, scanners, drones, and other 3D documentation methods
• Perform mechanical engineering calculations and prepare CAD-based and manual sketches
• Order and evaluate laboratory testing and perform analyses
• Review and interpret codes, standards, drawings, specifications, technical manuals, peer-reviewed literature, data logs, and other documentation
• Evaluate design, installation, operation, and maintenance compliance
• Conduct industrial safety and accident, equipment and machinery design and failure, product liability, and design and safety analyses
• Support fire and explosion investigations involving mechanical systems, products, and equipment
• Initiate, develop, and maintain mutually beneficial client relationships
• Work in office settings and at outside locations such as accident sites
• Work regular hours of 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, with overtime periods as required

Forensic Mechanical Engineer

• Conduct mechanical design engineering activities required to develop competitive products
• Develop the mechanical system structure from the architecture and consider risk-analysis measures in the construction
• Break down structures into subsystems and components and create detailed product specifications
• Evaluate whether existing subsystems and components can be reused
• Develop alternative structures and select the most suitable option
• Ensure double-sided traceability with the mechanical architecture
• Provide work results under configuration management, including material designation, versioning, and storage location

Mechanical Engineer jobs in Ohio

Forensic Mechanical Engineer

Associate Product Design Engineer