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Overview

This Mechanical Design Engineer position at an established industrial equipment manufacturer in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, offers the opportunity to take ownership of complex mechanical designs and progress to a Lead Mechanical Design Engineer role. The company is known for its investment in employee development and engineering excellence.

Responsibilities

  • Design industrial machinery from concept to production, including sheet metal and fabricated structures, complex weldments, machined components, and mechanical powertrain systems.
  • Carry out stress calculations and FEA, select components, and produce manufacturing drawings ready for fabrication and machining.
  • Work closely with systems engineers and project teams to deliver high-quality, manufacturable solutions.

Requirements

  • Strong 3D CAD experience, ideally Autodesk Inventor, including sheet metal design.
  • Proven experience designing fabricated equipment and weldments, with knowledge of pneumatics and stress analysis/FEA.
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field.

Benefits

  • 401K
  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Commutable from Philadelphia, Doylestown, Newtown, Hatboro, Levittown, Morrisville, Bristol, Cherry Hill, Princeton, Trenton.

Benefits

401K
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
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How this job compares in Philadelphia, PA

Pay in context

At roughly $50/hr, this posting sits about 68% above the $30/hr median for welding jobs in Philadelphia, PA — toward the top of a $29–$35/hr middle band drawn from 12 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 100% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in Philadelphia, PA

We're tracking 53 other active welding openings in Philadelphia, PA right now, from 30 different employers. 18 of them were added in the last week. Across Pennsylvania as a whole we're tracking 254 other active welding openings from 158 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Philadelphia, or widen the search to Pennsylvania.

The most active employers in Pennsylvania at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Rhoads Industries (12), Hanwha Philly Shipyard (6), and TradeWorx (6). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Pennsylvania, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Philadelphia at $30/hr and York at $25/hr. Philadelphia is among them.

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