Description:
The Mechanical Systems Engineer II is responsible for translating sales concepts into detailed, project-specific system and equipment designs. This role collaborates with the Senior Project Engineer and cross-functional teams to deliver project requirements on schedule and within budget.
Your role in our team
- You will convert conceptual solutions into detailed system designs that meet system and end-user requirements
- You will integrate material handling technologies and equipment into functional, cost-effective system solutions, ensuring compatibility with warehouse and building structures
- You will develop system layouts and detailed drawing packages to support equipment installation planning, coordination, and execution
- You will collaborate with electrical, controls, and installation engineering teams—as well as external stakeholders—to ensure design functionality, resolve conflicts, and maintain alignment with project objectives
- You will coordinate and lead design review meetings, maintaining design engineering timelines in accordance with project schedules and budgets
- You will monitor system design costs and support level-of-effort estimating for scope changes throughout the project lifecycle
- You will identify, communicate, and help mitigate design, delivery, and functionality risks with project management
- You will maintain knowledge of material handling technologies within the Körber product portfolio and broader warehouse automation industry
- You will prepare equipment order requests, recommended spare parts lists, and related documentation in compliance with departmental processes
Your profile
- You have obtained a bachelor's degree in mechanical or industrial engineering and have gained 5 years of project-based engineering experience in the warehouse and automation industry
- A minimum of 8 years of directly related experience in lieu of a degree
- You have experience designing large-scale warehouse and automation systems (>$10M investments), incorporating palletizing/depalletizing, unit load and pallet storage/retrieval, and pallet conveyance technologies
- You are proficient in developing system layouts, installation drawings, and material flow/rate diagrams using AutoCAD or similar CAD software
- Ability to integrate multiple material handling technologies and accurately define and size individual equipment requirements within overall system designs
- You have experience collaborating with project management, cross-functional engineering disciplines, and site installation teams
- You have strong written and verbal communication skills for effective coordination across internal and external stakeholders
- You know project budgeting and scheduling processes
- You can travel approximately 20% to project sites throughout the U.S., Canada, and Mexico