Project Engineer - Mechanical (Heavy Vehicles)

Location: Hagerstown, Maryland, United States

Pay range: $82,900–$134,300 per year across U.S. locations.

Company

JLG, an Oshkosh company, develops access equipment including mobile elevating work platforms, telehandlers, utility vehicles, and accessories for the construction and access industries.

What you will do

• Lead and coordinate an engineering team of Engineers, Designers, and Technicians.
• Manage project scope, schedules, budgets, department forecasts, and potential P&L responsibilities.
• Perform complex engineering calculations, analysis, design, redesign, validation, troubleshooting, and production support for heavy-duty vehicle components and subsystems.
• Evaluate designs for performance, safety, reliability, parts, components, and materials.
• Prepare technical plans, proposals, quotations, reports, presentations, project documentation, and engineering procedures.
• Collaborate with leadership, customers, suppliers, and internal business and engineering functions while mentoring and developing engineers.

Requirements

• Accredited bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related field and five or more years of related experience.
• Strong mechanical knowledge of automotive or heavy-vehicle equipment and related systems.
• Experience with a high-level CAD system.
• Ability to make significant departmental decisions, allocate resources, plan work amid changing problems, and solve complex engineering issues with limited precedent.
• Ability to read and interpret safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, procedures, technical and scientific materials, financial reports, and regulations.
• Ability to prepare routine reports and correspondence and communicate effectively with internal and external groups.
• Regular attendance is required.

Nice to have

• Accredited bachelor’s degree specifically in Mechanical Engineering.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time role with routine shift hours.
• Infrequent overtime, weekend work, or shift rotation may be required.
• Work includes frequent analysis, communication, reading, writing, sustained mental activity, and changing task demands.
• Physical duties include frequent standing, walking or running, sitting, reaching, hearing, talking, visual work, and typing; occasional driving and manual dexterity.
• Work involves variable deadlines, high-volume demands, and intermittent considerable stress.
• Reasonable accommodation is available for applicants with disabilities.