Mechanical (Mechatronics) Engineer

Job Title: Mechanical (Mechatronics) Engineer

Job Location: Loveland, CO

Job type: Full-time

Type of role: On-site

​​Salary Range: $85,000-$95,000

About Lubrizol  
The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company whose science delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol owns and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales, and technical offices around the world and has about 8,000 employees. For more information, visit www.Lubrizol.com.

We value diversity in professional backgrounds and life experiences. By enabling a consistent, unbiased, and transparent recruitment process, Lubrizol seeks to create a positive experience for candidates so we can get to know them at their best. We recognize unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life.   

Join Our Thriving Team at Avid Product Development, a Lubrizol Company as a Systems Engineer

Unleash Your Potential. At Lubrizol we're transforming the printing services industry and looking for exceptional talent to join us on this journey. If you are ready to join an international company with talent around the world, and want to make a real impact, we want you on our team.

What You'll Do:

Avid Product Development, a Lubrizol company, provides entrepreneurs, inventors, and companies around the world with scalable engineering design and additive manufacturing solutions. We do this by employing people dedicated to continual improvement and exceeding customer quality expectations. Currently, we have an opening for a Systems Engineer, focused on supporting Engineering and Operations. The candidate selected for this role will be responsible for meeting the engineering design and software development needs of our external engineering and 3D printing clients, and providing internal support for Avid’s 3D printing, production, sales, and operations.

What We're Looking For:

• Oversee technical aspects of engineering work in a large range of fields
• Schedule and project timelines for design projects and production
• Estimate and write quotes for design and production work
• Track and document time spent on client projects
• Budget management for projects
• Design electrical schematics and translate them to custom PCB layouts
• Firmware development for mechatronic systems, typically in C
• Circuit debugging using standard electrical lab equipment
• Fabricate, assemble, and test CAD designs to ensure functionality as real products
• Frequent use of power tools including drill press, circular saw, angle grinder, and sawzall
• Create and conduct presentations on projects, data, test results, and departmental objectives to customers, management, and engineering team at regular intervals
• Assist newer team members
• Drive Avid to stay at the cutting edge of engineering for additive manufacturing 
• Build and maintain integrations, applications and plugins that automate workflows across Avid’s teams
• Build tools to analyze large amounts of data quickly and efficiently

Skills That Make a Difference:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering
• 3+ years of industry experience in mechanical engineering, mechatronics or electrical design
• Intermediate to advanced experience in fabrication, assembly and testing skills for taking designs from CAD and ensuring they will work as real products
• Advanced knowledge of Solidworks CAD software and Solidworks PDM workflow
• Experience with ECAD software for PCB design
• Experience in embedded firmware development in C
• Meticulous soldering skills

Preferred Skills & Experiences:

• Design for additive manufacturing (DfAM), product design and industrial design
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of additive design software such as nTopology
• Experience with KiCad EDA, specifically
• Familiarity with common embedded communication protocols (SPI, I2C, USART, etc.)
• Experience problem solving using tools such as root cause analysis, 5 why’s fishbone diagram, decision matrix, etc.
• Ability to hand solder QFN packages
• Experience with PCB manufacturing, including reflow

Perks and Rewards That Inspire:

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, and prescription drug coverage
• Health Savings Account and Flex Spending Account options
• Employee Assistance Program
• Retirement Match

Ready for your next career step? Apply today and let's shape the future together! 

It’s an exciting time to be part of Lubrizol. Lubrizol is not staying put. We are continually learning and evolving. Our passion delivers our success — not only for Lubrizol but for those who count on us every day: our employees, customers and communities. 

We work with a relentless commitment to operate safely and responsibly, keeping safety, sustainability, ethics, and compliance at the forefront of everything we do. The well-being of our employees, customers and communities is paramount to our culture and in the way we approach our work.

As a diverse, global team, we work together to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. We impact everyday lives through science only Lubrizol can deliver, and we never stop pushing to do it better.

One of the founding principles of The Lubrizol Corporation more than 90 years ago was treating every employee with dignity and respect. That same commitment is only stronger today. 

More than that, we are committed to providing an environment where every employee can be the best they can be, no matter their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic. 

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