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:

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

10% of domestic and international travel required.

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Milwaukee Tool is an equal opportunity employer.