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Manufacturing Engineer Opportunity in Central Maine

June 19, 2008

My client is a large Aerospace and Power Generation subcontract shop. They are currently involved in projects with companies such as Pratt & Whitney, Siemens Power, Ingersoll Rand, General Electric as well as other well known manufacturers. As this shop has continued to grow for the last 40 years, they are in search of a Senior Level Manufacturing Engineer Responsibilities are as Follows:

  • Responsible for all aspects of Manufacturing Engineering from Sunrise to Sunset
  • Ability to Read and Quote from Client Blue Prints
  • Produce All Process Sheets
  • Specify Cutting Tools and all aspects of Machining
  • Knowledge of Welding
  • Resonsible for oversight of final inspection
  • Responsible for fixture Design
  • Must be able to deal with end client
  • Must be able to work in a team environment from shop floor personnel to Senior Level Management
  1. Competative Salary based on experience $60K-$90K
  2. Excellent Health Benefits
  3. 401k Plan
  4. Vacation and holiday pay
  5. Relocation expenses paid

To apply please email your resume to: abc [at] foundstaff [dot] com

Written by Andy Case · Filed Under Engineering Jobs, Manufacturing Engineering, Senior Level |  

Senior Aerodynamic / Hydrodynamic Engineer

June 19, 2008

We are seeking two senior level turbomachinery engineers, with a focus in the aerodynamic / hydrodynamic design and analysis areas.

Responsibilities include aero/hydro design and analysis of compressors, pumps, turbines (including steam turbines), turbochargers, and stationary turbomachinery components. Experience with both axial and radial turbomachinery is very beneficial.

Turbomachinery experience should include meanline design, three-dimensional flow path and blading design, and CFD analysis using modern design tools. Project management experience is critical. One of the available positions specifically calls for in-depth turbine design/analysis experience. Excellent communication, presentation, and teamwork skills are very important.

A minimum B.Sc., ME, and 10-15 years in aerodynamic/hydrodynamic design and analysis after the degree was earned, is expected.

To be considered please email your resume to abc [at] foundstaff [dot] com

Written by Andy Case · Filed Under $100k+ Jobs, Aerospace Engineering, Engineering Jobs, Mechanical Engineering, Senior Level |  

Mixed Signal Hardware Engineer (Audio)

June 16, 2008

Mixed Signal Hardware Engineer (Audio), $50-60/hr Contract (may consider after hours!)

Will develop defaults for audio parameters and document the outputs. This role in some ways, functions as an application / product engineer who will provide reference circuits to help customers integrate audio components into their products. This is a hybrid Analog, digital and Acoustical systems role. This is not an IC Design engineering role; although an analog Audio IC engineer might be able to this job

Bring your audio knowledge and hardware design skills together in this exciting new role with a corporation developing futuristic wireless products to enable effective solutions. In this cross-functional role, you will evaluate, quantify, and assess the quality of current designs, while optimizing existing product requirements. You will also verify and update product audio specifications for existing products, including layout and placement guidelines for the audio components for headsets, handsets, speakerphone amplifiers, and microphones. Your desire to learn wireless technology and trends will enable you to propose future audio module designs and create standard test processes for evaluating them. Documentation responsibilities will include creating schematics and diagrams for customer use and designing an integration guide. The work will encompass both digital and analog audio products. The Initial project target is approximately three months with the possibility of conversion to employee status but not a guarantee that this will ever convert or extend. Your knowledge base will expand as you work in this state-of-the-art environment and interact with creative and stimulating co-workers.

For immediate consideration, please send MS Word resume to resume [at] alynpatrick [dot] com

Requirements:

– BSEE and 3+ years experience designing audio applications
– Documentation and testing experience with both digital and analog audio products
– Experience providing reference designs
– Familiarity with standard audio and electronic test lab equipment and programs, such as spectrum and signal analyzers
– Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written; customer-facing experience is a plus
–Prefer wireless experience but will consider strong Audio circuit integration with a strong combination of other applicable skills
– Ability to work both independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced, high-tech environment

Written by David Herrmann · Filed Under Electrical Engineering, Engineering Jobs, Junior Level |  

Guy Kawasaki’s Top Ten Lies of [Software] Engineers

June 5, 2008

I stumbled across this old blog post from Guy Kawasaki…

1. “We’re about to go into beta testing.” This is a meaningless statement because it doesn’t matter when you go into beta testing–what matters is when you come out of beta testing. (The only hard and fast deadline for coming out of modern-day beta testing is “before you run out of money.”)

In the good old days, “alpha” used to mean “all features are implemented though not necessarily working properly.” “Beta” used to mean “there are no more repeatable bugs.” Nowadays beta means “we’ve gone as long as possible past the shipping date that we promised our investors.”

2. “I don’t know anything thing about marketing…” This is a lie of false modesty. The engineer is thinking, in totality, “I don’t know a thing about marketing, but how hard could it be compared to what I’m doing? I should run marketing and engineering. I just hope that the marketing the MBAs come up with is worthy of my code.” However, don’t worry too much about this lie because it self-corrects as the engineer misses deadline after deadline and comes to realize that he has bigger issues.

3. “I’ll comment the code, so that the next person can understand what I did.” This is a lie of good intentions. Really, the engineer did intend to comment the code but as the schedule slipped, priorities changed. The question put to management became: “Do you want me to comment the code or finish it sooner?” Guess what the answer was. Luckily, the lack of comments usually doesn’t matter because the code is so crappy that a total rewrite is necessary in a year.

4. “Our architecture is scalable.” This is the lie that I enjoy hearing the most. Typically, an engineer who has never shipped a product says this after creating a prototype in Visual BASIC. The whole conversation goes like this: “Google’s architecture isn’t as scalable as mine. They can support 25 million simultaneous searches. We will be able to easily handle a billion.”

Luckily, in most cases, the adoption of the product is slower than the CEO’s “conservative” forecast, so scalability never becomes an issue. Yeah, those clowns at Google, Yahoo, Oracle, Microsoft, Apple, and AOL don’t know anything about scaling compared to the engineer…

5. “The code supports all the industry standards.” This is almost a truth but for a short omission: “This code supports all the industry standardsthat I agree with.” The engineer has made a personal decision to ignore standards she doesn’t like–for example, those promulgated by Microsoft. It’s no big deal–customers will never know…

 

Read the rest of his post HERE

Written by bradley · Filed Under Engineering Commentary, Featured Article |  

5 Secrets to Fitting into the Workplace

June 5, 2008

- Article by Marcia Robinson and courtesy of BullsEyeResumes College Blog.

So you have executed a successful job search and landed a new job and you are anxious to get started building your new career in a new company. Once you get over your new employee fears and get oriented to your new space, you will find it takes more than smiles and kind words to fit in.

Here are few things to keep in mind as you make the transition.

Don’t whine. At least not to the people you work with at the office. Talk about any job challenges or work related issues with friends, family or trusted colleagues in other companies, and not with your new coworkers. Avoid complaining about too much work, too many assignments or too long hours at the office. The fact is, no one really cares how much you have to do since everyone else has their own work, their own assignments, and their own long hours to deal with. Avoid becoming too cozy with the established resident whiners in your new company as well.

Make your manager aware of what you are doing and ask for feedback. A colleague once talked to me about a new energetic recruit who showed a lot of initiative on the job. Although this new worker meant really well, as my colleague put it, “She was running a great race, but she was in the wrong stadium completely.” Make sure the work you are doing is relevant and critical to the department’s mission. Additionally, make sure your work is being noticed. It will take a while for you to get into your groove in your new office, and making sure you are not working contrary to the flow is good. Watch also that you are not inheriting assignments from those who want to hand off their jobs.

Show enthusiasm and energy for the job, business or industry you are in now. If you just got hired by the largest plumbing fixture manufacturing supply company, you need to get excited about plumbing fixture manufacturing supplies business. People who enjoy the domains they work in are interested in learning more and will ultimately tend to do better on the job. If you are not prepared to have meaningful conversations about your job or the industry within which your company operates, you will not be happy.

Stay on time. If you have a problem being punctual, work really hard to correct that behavior. Be in the office on time, if not early, be back from lunch on time and do not pack up twenty minutes before your shift or day is supposed to end. Arrive on time for meetings and work harder on your own time if you have to. Of course today’s workforce is more about productivity than time spent in the office, but it is still a good idea for to show others you respect their time. Once you understand the protocols and the routines of the office, schedules can change.

Limit talk about what you did in your old job, company or worse in a class. This one is pretty hard to do, but it is something you will master eventually. It is been my experience that people sometimes don’t want to hear new ideas if they came from your old job, old company or worse from a class. Of course your prior knowledge will show in your work, but limit talking about where your skills come from. Feel free to credit publications, the media or a conference, but not your old job, company or class for new ideas.

Of course none of these tips are cast in cement. In addition to the requisite due diligence to do your new job well, you just need to heed some of these other workplace protocols that could expedite or slow your assimilation in the new environment.

Article by Marcia Robinson and courtesy of BullsEyeResumes College Blog. Robinson coaches, trains, and writes on career, workplace, and education issues for students and career professionals.

Article via Recruiting Blogswap, a service sponsored by CollegeRecruiter.com, a leading site for college students looking for internships.

Written by bradley · Filed Under Engineering Commentary, Featured Article |  

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