Senior Motor Engineers –Cordless New Product Development (NPD)

Job Description:

Senior Motor Engineers –Cordless New Product Development (NPD)

13135 W. Lisbon Road, Brookfield, WI 53005

Job Duties

• Lead design, prototype, test and troubleshoot motors for high complexity projects.
• Lead collaboration with local cross-functional, Global Motor Engineering, and Operations teams to create and execute test plans to verify motor performance and thermal limits per project requirements.
• Lead and drive test regimens for components and assemblies within scope of project and organization to aid in design verification and failure modes.
• Conduct hands-on experiments of power tools, perform simulations, and draw concise, logical conclusions by analyzing data.
• Perform root cause failure analysis of motor test failures.
• Drive supplier relationships to develop part/product specifications that meet performance requirements while falling within process capabilities.
• Maintain an understanding of company’s development and manufacturing processes to effectively and efficiently mass produce power tools. May manage project team members.
• Perform electromagnetic design changes to laminations to improve existing designs.
• Analyze and test motor designs for sound, vibration and resonant frequencies and have the capability to address issues through design.
• Make clean-sheet motor designs of brushed and brushless DC motors and AC universal motors to optimize performance tailored to product requirements.
• Apply drawing specifications/GD&T and perform stack up analysis.
• Design fans and airflow paths for thermal management.
• Schedule, develop agendas for, facilitate, and document technical meetings and formal presentations.
• Use laboratory equipment such as oscilloscopes, power supplies, e-loads, and data acquisition systems.
• Design and qualify new solutions to applicable regulatory standards such as UL, CEC, CE, and ANSI.

Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, related engineering field, or foreign degree equivalent, and 2 years of relevant experience as a Mechanical Engineer, or alternate related acceptable occupation; OR Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, related engineering field, or foreign degree equivalent, and 5 years of relevant experience as a Mechanical Engineer, or alternate related acceptable occupation.

Work academic experience must have included:

• CAD (NX, Solidworks, or similar)
• Finite Element Analysis
• Electromagnetic Simulation
• Theory of Brushless DC Motors
• Solenoid design and theory
• Brushed PMDC, Universal, Induction, or Switched Reluctance motors and theory
• Motor Controls, battery technology, vibration, and sound analysis
• Motor Assembly and Motor Component design/manufacturing and driving cost and durability

10% of domestic and international travel required.

Milwaukee Tool is an equal opportunity employer.