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Solution Design Engineer Mechanical

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Job Location:

Grand Rapids, MI - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 65000 - 140000
Posted: 4 September 2026 (16 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 2 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Dematic has an immediate need for a Mechanical Engineer with Conveyor and Sortation experience to join our Customer Service Solution Development team in estimating solutions for our customers. The Solution Design Engineer - Mechanical will work in Dematic Corporations Solution Development department and report to the Solution Development Manager.

We offer:
  • Career Development
  • Competitive Compensation and Benefits
  • Pay Transparency
  • Global Opportunities

Learn More Here: provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training.

The base pay range for this role is estimated to be $65000-$140000 at the time of posting. Final compensation will be determined by various factors such as work location education experience knowledge and skills.

Tasks and Qualifications:

What you Will Do in This Role:

  • Understand the design of complex systems that integrate material handling equipment electrical controls programming and software to estimate the mechanical equipment of complete solutions for customers

  • Understand complex equipment specification able to read and comprehend mechanical drawings and deliver appropriate follow-up of technical details

  • Complete recommendations for ideas related to productivity improvement cost reduction and improvement for customer satisfaction

  • Lead create and modify proposal drawings for estimating purposes

  • Develop Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) costing

  • Participate in providing estimates for semi-complex projects to the solution development team engineering team and account management team

  • Perform complex technical interchange and knowledge transfer for both processes and application of products to system design.

  • Explain and discusses complex unusual problems to other team members to provide proper mechanical solutions for customer requests

  • Collaborate with key project & solution team stakeholders by hosting and supporting concept technical and cost reviews.

  • Demonstrated familiarity with Dematics current products and engineering processes

  • Support internal technical and cost reviews

What We Are Looking For:

  • Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering or related field

  • 5-10 years of successful experience as a project engineer designing and commissioning automated material handling systems including mechanical conveyor systems design and basic knowledge of electrical controls related to conveyor systems

  • Demonstrated strong verbal and written communication skills

  • Material Handling Equipment background with a focus on Case Tote and Pallet conveyance and Sorter mechanical equipment

  • Experience creating solutions and generating estimates to support Sales requests

  • Proficient in AutoCAD and 3D design tools

  • Knowledgeable in distribution center operations logistics and automation experience

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We are a leading supplier of forklifts and warehouse equipment as well as automation technology and software solutions for the optimization of supply chains.

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