Careerinfoworld : Mechanical Designer

Mechanical Designer

Job ID: 384981

Job Views: 4

Location: Waterloo, Ontario (ON), Canada

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Job Category: I.T. & Communications

Employment Type: Full time

Salary: per year

Posted: 04.23.2012

Job Description

Mechanical Designer
Job #: 807903

Job Description:

Mechanical Designer

Research In Motion (RIM), a global leader in wireless innovation, revolutionized the mobile industry with the introduction of the BlackBerry solution in 1999. Today, BlackBerry products and services are used by millions of customers around the world to stay connected to the people and content that matter most throughout their day. Founded in 1984 and based in Waterloo, Ontario, RIM operates offices in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. RIM is listed on the NASDAQ Stock Market (NASDAQ: RIMM) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: RIM).

POSITION SUMMARY

As a member of the Mechanical Engineering team, the Mechanical Designer will be responsible for designing thin wall plastic injection molded parts, die castings, sheet metal parts, keypads and other electro mechanical component parts for RIM handheld products and assemblies.

RESPONSIBILITIES

The incumbent will be involved with Design work which is performed using Pro/Engineer 3D CAD software, and will interface with tooling, PCB layout, Radio Frequency (RF), base band, acoustic, manufacturing, industrial design and other internal RIM groups in order to produce cost effective, high quality and highly functional products.

The incumbent's other duties include:

• Support of product definition
• Concept generation
• Support of product ramp
• Creating part drawings
• Investigating new packaging technologies
• Interfacing with suppliers
• Qualifying parts
• Assemblies along with tolerance analysis
• Part and drawing release

ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering along with 3 to 5 years of experience
• Self motivating individual with strong interpersonal and problem solving skills
• Familiarity with electronics packaging, tolerance stack analysis, injection molding, in mold labeling (IML), in mold decorating (IMD), VM, NCVM, painting and other plastic decoration technologies
• Familiarity with die casting process, plating and designing parts for those processes
• Understanding of secondary decoration processes such as pad printing, hot stamping etc.

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