Mechanical Design Engineer Jobs in North Carolina
Mechanical design engineer jobs in North Carolina are actively hiring, with steady demand concentrated in aerospace and defense, advanced manufacturing, and life sciences, attracting candidates from entry-level to senior principal roles. Charlotte, Raleigh, and the Triad region anchor most of the hiring, where established employers such as Honeywell, Siemens, and Becton Dickinson maintain significant engineering operations. The most in-demand specialties include CAD-driven product development, precision component design, and electromechanical systems integration. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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BH Job ID: 5596
SF Job Req ID: 21450
Ingersoll Rand is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.
Job Title: Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
Location: Charleroi, PA; Quincy, IL or Davidson, NC
About Us
Imagine a company with technology leadership of over 160 years, yet it operates with the energy of a startup. Ingersoll Rand has dedicated itself to Making Life Better for its employees, customers, shareholders, and planet. We produce innovative and mission-critical flow creation and life science technologies – from compressors to precision handling of liquids, gases, and powders – to increase industrial productivity, efficiency, and sustainability. Supported by over 80+ brands, our products are used in various end markets, including life sciences, food and beverage, clean energy, industrial manufacturing, infrastructure, and more. Across the globe, we’re driving growth with an entrepreneurial spirit and ownership mindset. Learn more at irco.com and join us to own your future.
Job Overview
As a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer supporting centrifugal blowers, you will provide hands-on product engineering and technical leadership for centrifugal blower products and related industrial equipment. This role combines detailed sustaining engineering with advanced analysis, testing, engineering-tool development, and ownership of complex product, manufacturing, supplier, and field issues.
You will move between drawings, bills of material, engineering changes, shop-floor troubleshooting, test work, analytical studies, and cross-functional coordination. The successful candidate is highly self-directed and able to establish the technical path, coordinate the right resources, and drive difficult work through closure with limited day-to-day direction.
Responsibilities
- Own complex sustaining-engineering, manufacturing, supplier, test, and field problems from initial definition through investigation, corrective action, documentation, and closure.
- Provide hands-on engineering support for centrifugal blowers, blower packages, and related mechanical systems, including work in production, assembly, and test environments.
- Create and revise three-dimensional models, engineering drawings, specifications, bills of material, and product documentation.
- Prepare and process engineering changes while maintaining accurate design records and product configuration.
- Lead root-cause investigations and develop practical corrective actions that balance technical quality, schedule, cost, manufacturing, and customer needs.
- Plan and execute mechanical, performance, vibration, temperature, pressure, and functional testing.
- Develop test plans, test specifications, acceptance criteria, data-reduction methods, and test reports.
- Investigate and apply applicable performance-test methods and standards, including ASME PTC 10 and ASME PTC 13 where relevant.
- Perform or lead advanced engineering analysis such as computational fluid dynamics, finite element analysis, rotor dynamics, vibration analysis, thermal analysis, and blower-performance evaluation based on project needs and individual expertise.
- Analyze test and field data, reconcile differences between predictions and measured results, and document technical conclusions and recommendations.
- Identify repetitive or inefficient engineering processes and develop calculators, scripts, automated workflows, or internal engineering applications to improve speed, consistency, and capability.
- Provide technical project ownership across Manufacturing, Quality, Sourcing, Service, Product Management, Application Engineering, suppliers, and other stakeholders.
- Maintain priorities, action items, technical risks, and follow-up needed to drive assigned work to completion, and communicate schedule or resource concerns early.
- Provide technical guidance and mentoring to other engineers and support design reviews and engineering decision-making.
- Support product quality, cost reduction, standardization, obsolescence, and design-improvement activities.
- Improve engineering standards, templates, calculators, test methods, and technical documentation.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related engineering discipline.
- 7+ years of relevant experience in product design, sustaining engineering, testing, rotating equipment, or industrial machinery. Demonstrated capability and ownership are more important than a rigid year requirement.
- 2+ years in fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, heat transfer, mechanics of materials, and machine design.
- 2+ years of experience creating or revising three-dimensional models, engineering drawings, specifications, tolerances, and bills of material.
- 2+ years of experience supporting manufactured or assembled mechanical products and resolving production, supplier, test, or field issues.
- 2+ years of experience with technical project ownership, including planning engineering work, coordinating across functions, maintaining priorities and action items, and communicating technical or schedule risks.
- 1+ year of demonstrated analytical engineering capability in at least one relevant area, such as CFD, FEA, rotor dynamics, vibration, thermal analysis, fluid-flow analysis, testing, or rotating-equipment performance.
Core Competencies
- Ownership and follow-through in driving ambiguous, complex technical issues through documented closure.
- Application of sound mechanical engineering fundamentals to hands-on sustaining, analysis, testing, and design work.
- Practical problem-solving that balances product performance, reliability, manufacturability, schedule, cost, and customer needs.
- Data-driven decision making using analysis, test results, production information, supplier input, and field performance.
- Technical project leadership across cross-functional stakeholders without requiring direct supervisory authority.
- Clear communication of technical conclusions, risks, priorities, actions, and resource needs.
- Continuous improvement through reusable engineering standards, tools, methods, calculators, and documentation.
- Technical guidance and mentoring that helps less-experienced engineers develop sound engineering judgment.
- Demonstrated ability to independently own complex technical problems and drive them through closure with limited day-to-day direction.
- Strong mechanical aptitude and willingness to perform detailed sustaining work as well as advanced technical work.
- Experience developing and executing test plans or test specifications and analyzing measured data.
- Ability to communicate complex technical issues clearly to engineering and non-engineering audiences.
Preferences
- Experience with centrifugal or multistage blowers, compressors, pumps, fans, turbines, vacuum equipment, or other rotating machinery.
- Experience with CFD software and aerodynamic or internal-flow analysis.
- Experience with FEA, rotor-dynamic and bearing analysis, vibration and acoustic troubleshooting, or thermal analysis.
- Knowledge of ASME PTC 10, ASME PTC 13, or comparable rotating-equipment performance-test standards.
- Experience developing engineering calculators, data-reduction programs, automated workflows, or internal engineering applications.
- Experience using Python, MATLAB, VBA, or similar tools for engineering analysis and automation.
- Experience using company-approved AI-assisted development tools for coding, data review, research, or technical documentation.
- Experience using Creo, Inventor, SolidWorks, or a similar three-dimensional CAD system.
- Experience using Windchill, SAP, or comparable PLM and ERP tools.
- Hands-on use of vibration analyzers, pressure transducers, flow-measurement equipment, temperature instruments, electrical measurement equipment, or data-acquisition systems.
- Experience with castings, machined components, fabricated assemblies, bearings, seals, shafts, impellers, gears, or lubrication systems.
- Experience leading root-cause investigations using 5-Why, fishbone analysis, fault-tree analysis, or 8D.
- Experience mentoring engineers or providing technical leadership without direct supervisory responsibility.
Travel & Work Arrangements
- Hybrid position based in Charleroi, PA; Quincy, IL or Davidson, NC. Two remote days per week of your choosing.
- Regular on-site interaction with engineering, manufacturing, production, assembly, and test activities is required.
- Occasional travel may be required to support suppliers, customers, field investigations, or other company locations.
What We Offer
At Ingersoll Rand, we embrace a culture of personal ownership — taking responsibility for our company, our communities, and our environment, as well as our individual health and well-being. Our comprehensive benefits package is designed to empower you with the tools and support necessary to take charge of your health, ensuring that together, we can continue to make life better. Our range of benefits includes health care options like medical and prescription plans, dental and vision coverage, as well as wellness programs. Additionally, we provide life insurance, a robust 401(k) plan, paid time off, and even an employee stock grant, among other offerings. These benefits are our commitment to you, so you can be your best at work and beyond.
Ingersoll Rand Inc. (NYSE:IR), driven by an entrepreneurial spirit and ownership mindset, is dedicated to helping make life better for our employees, customers and communities. Customers lean on us for our technology-driven excellence in mission-critical flow creation and industrial solutions across 40+ respected brands where our products and services excel in the most complex and harsh conditions. Our employees develop customers for life through their daily commitment to expertise, productivity and efficiency. For more information, visit www.IRCO.com.
BH Job ID: 5596
SF Job Req ID: 21450
Ingersoll Rand is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.
Job Title: Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
Location: Charleroi, PA; Quincy, IL or Davidson, NC
About Us
Imagine a company with technology leadership of over 160 years, yet it operates with the energy of a startup. Ingersoll Rand has dedicated itself to Making Life Better for its employees, customers, shareholders, and planet. We produce innovative and mission-critical flow creation and life science technologies – from compressors to precision handling of liquids, gases, and powders – to increase industrial productivity, efficiency, and sustainability. Supported by over 80+ brands, our products are used in various end markets, including life sciences, food and beverage, clean energy, industrial manufacturing, infrastructure, and more. Across the globe, we’re driving growth with an entrepreneurial spirit and ownership mindset. Learn more at irco.com and join us to own your future.
Job Overview
As a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer supporting centrifugal blowers, you will provide hands-on product engineering and technical leadership for centrifugal blower products and related industrial equipment. This role combines detailed sustaining engineering with advanced analysis, testing, engineering-tool development, and ownership of complex product, manufacturing, supplier, and field issues.
You will move between drawings, bills of material, engineering changes, shop-floor troubleshooting, test work, analytical studies, and cross-functional coordination. The successful candidate is highly self-directed and able to establish the technical path, coordinate the right resources, and drive difficult work through closure with limited day-to-day direction.
Responsibilities
- Own complex sustaining-engineering, manufacturing, supplier, test, and field problems from initial definition through investigation, corrective action, documentation, and closure.
- Provide hands-on engineering support for centrifugal blowers, blower packages, and related mechanical systems, including work in production, assembly, and test environments.
- Create and revise three-dimensional models, engineering drawings, specifications, bills of material, and product documentation.
- Prepare and process engineering changes while maintaining accurate design records and product configuration.
- Lead root-cause investigations and develop practical corrective actions that balance technical quality, schedule, cost, manufacturing, and customer needs.
- Plan and execute mechanical, performance, vibration, temperature, pressure, and functional testing.
- Develop test plans, test specifications, acceptance criteria, data-reduction methods, and test reports.
- Investigate and apply applicable performance-test methods and standards, including ASME PTC 10 and ASME PTC 13 where relevant.
- Perform or lead advanced engineering analysis such as computational fluid dynamics, finite element analysis, rotor dynamics, vibration analysis, thermal analysis, and blower-performance evaluation based on project needs and individual expertise.
- Analyze test and field data, reconcile differences between predictions and measured results, and document technical conclusions and recommendations.
- Identify repetitive or inefficient engineering processes and develop calculators, scripts, automated workflows, or internal engineering applications to improve speed, consistency, and capability.
- Provide technical project ownership across Manufacturing, Quality, Sourcing, Service, Product Management, Application Engineering, suppliers, and other stakeholders.
- Maintain priorities, action items, technical risks, and follow-up needed to drive assigned work to completion, and communicate schedule or resource concerns early.
- Provide technical guidance and mentoring to other engineers and support design reviews and engineering decision-making.
- Support product quality, cost reduction, standardization, obsolescence, and design-improvement activities.
- Improve engineering standards, templates, calculators, test methods, and technical documentation.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related engineering discipline.
- 7+ years of relevant experience in product design, sustaining engineering, testing, rotating equipment, or industrial machinery. Demonstrated capability and ownership are more important than a rigid year requirement.
- 2+ years in fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, heat transfer, mechanics of materials, and machine design.
- 2+ years of experience creating or revising three-dimensional models, engineering drawings, specifications, tolerances, and bills of material.
- 2+ years of experience supporting manufactured or assembled mechanical products and resolving production, supplier, test, or field issues.
- 2+ years of experience with technical project ownership, including planning engineering work, coordinating across functions, maintaining priorities and action items, and communicating technical or schedule risks.
- 1+ year of demonstrated analytical engineering capability in at least one relevant area, such as CFD, FEA, rotor dynamics, vibration, thermal analysis, fluid-flow analysis, testing, or rotating-equipment performance.
Core Competencies
- Ownership and follow-through in driving ambiguous, complex technical issues through documented closure.
- Application of sound mechanical engineering fundamentals to hands-on sustaining, analysis, testing, and design work.
- Practical problem-solving that balances product performance, reliability, manufacturability, schedule, cost, and customer needs.
- Data-driven decision making using analysis, test results, production information, supplier input, and field performance.
- Technical project leadership across cross-functional stakeholders without requiring direct supervisory authority.
- Clear communication of technical conclusions, risks, priorities, actions, and resource needs.
- Continuous improvement through reusable engineering standards, tools, methods, calculators, and documentation.
- Technical guidance and mentoring that helps less-experienced engineers develop sound engineering judgment.
- Demonstrated ability to independently own complex technical problems and drive them through closure with limited day-to-day direction.
- Strong mechanical aptitude and willingness to perform detailed sustaining work as well as advanced technical work.
- Experience developing and executing test plans or test specifications and analyzing measured data.
- Ability to communicate complex technical issues clearly to engineering and non-engineering audiences.
Preferences
- Experience with centrifugal or multistage blowers, compressors, pumps, fans, turbines, vacuum equipment, or other rotating machinery.
- Experience with CFD software and aerodynamic or internal-flow analysis.
- Experience with FEA, rotor-dynamic and bearing analysis, vibration and acoustic troubleshooting, or thermal analysis.
- Knowledge of ASME PTC 10, ASME PTC 13, or comparable rotating-equipment performance-test standards.
- Experience developing engineering calculators, data-reduction programs, automated workflows, or internal engineering applications.
- Experience using Python, MATLAB, VBA, or similar tools for engineering analysis and automation.
- Experience using company-approved AI-assisted development tools for coding, data review, research, or technical documentation.
- Experience using Creo, Inventor, SolidWorks, or a similar three-dimensional CAD system.
- Experience using Windchill, SAP, or comparable PLM and ERP tools.
- Hands-on use of vibration analyzers, pressure transducers, flow-measurement equipment, temperature instruments, electrical measurement equipment, or data-acquisition systems.
- Experience with castings, machined components, fabricated assemblies, bearings, seals, shafts, impellers, gears, or lubrication systems.
- Experience leading root-cause investigations using 5-Why, fishbone analysis, fault-tree analysis, or 8D.
- Experience mentoring engineers or providing technical leadership without direct supervisory responsibility.
Travel & Work Arrangements
- Hybrid position based in Charleroi, PA; Quincy, IL or Davidson, NC. Two remote days per week of your choosing.
- Regular on-site interaction with engineering, manufacturing, production, assembly, and test activities is required.
- Occasional travel may be required to support suppliers, customers, field investigations, or other company locations.
What We Offer
At Ingersoll Rand, we embrace a culture of personal ownership — taking responsibility for our company, our communities, and our environment, as well as our individual health and well-being. Our comprehensive benefits package is designed to empower you with the tools and support necessary to take charge of your health, ensuring that together, we can continue to make life better. Our range of benefits includes health care options like medical and prescription plans, dental and vision coverage, as well as wellness programs. Additionally, we provide life insurance, a robust 401(k) plan, paid time off, and even an employee stock grant, among other offerings. These benefits are our commitment to you, so you can be your best at work and beyond.
Ingersoll Rand Inc. (NYSE:IR), driven by an entrepreneurial spirit and ownership mindset, is dedicated to helping make life better for our employees, customers and communities. Customers lean on us for our technology-driven excellence in mission-critical flow creation and industrial solutions across 40+ respected brands where our products and services excel in the most complex and harsh conditions. Our employees develop customers for life through their daily commitment to expertise, productivity and efficiency. For more information, visit www.IRCO.com.
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What North Carolina Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in mechanical design engineer jobs across North Carolina.
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or closely related engineering discipline required
- Proficiency in CAD software such as SolidWorks, CATIA, or Creo for 3D modeling
- Experience with GD&T, engineering drawings, and design for manufacturability principles
- Familiarity with DFMEA, tolerance analysis, and product lifecycle management tools
- Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams including manufacturing, quality, and suppliers
- Experience in aerospace, defense, medical device, or industrial equipment development preferred
Mechanical Design Engineer Jobs in North Carolina: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a mechanical design engineer in North Carolina?
Most mechanical design engineer roles in North Carolina require a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from an ABET-accredited program. Engineers who provide services directly to the public or stamp drawings must hold a Professional Engineer license issued by the North Carolina Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors, which requires passing the Fundamentals of Engineering and Principles and Practice of Engineering exams. Industry positions in aerospace, defense, and manufacturing typically do not require licensure but value strong CAD portfolio experience and internships with North Carolina employers.
How much do mechanical design engineers make in North Carolina?
Mechanical design engineers in North Carolina earn a median of about $100,720 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $71,260 for the lowest 10% to over $155,550 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire mechanical design engineers in North Carolina?
Employers hiring mechanical design engineers in North Carolina right now include ABB, GE Vernova, and ZIM Aircraft Cabin Solutions, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. North Carolina's concentration of aerospace manufacturers, defense contractors, and medical device companies in the Charlotte and Research Triangle areas means sustained hiring across a broad range of design specialties.
Which North Carolina cities have the most mechanical design engineer jobs?
Mebane, Greensboro, and Wilmington lead North Carolina for mechanical design engineer openings. Charlotte drives volume through its aerospace and advanced manufacturing base, including major defense and industrial systems facilities, while Raleigh and Durham benefit from Research Triangle Park's dense cluster of life sciences, semiconductor, and technology companies that rely heavily on mechanical design talent.
Are there remote mechanical design engineer jobs in North Carolina?
Yes, but they're relatively limited. About 22% of mechanical design engineer openings tied to North Carolina are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting that much of the work involves physical prototypes, lab testing, and hands-on collaboration with manufacturing teams. The portions of the role most compatible with remote work include CAD modeling, design reviews, and documentation tasks that do not require access to physical hardware or production equipment.
How can I get hired as a mechanical design engineer in North Carolina with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is applying for junior mechanical engineer or design engineer associate roles at North Carolina's large aerospace and medical device manufacturers, which regularly hire new graduates. Employers such as Honeywell's Charlotte operations and Becton Dickinson facilities run structured new-graduate and rotational engineering programs that provide hands-on design exposure. A strong SolidWorks or CATIA portfolio from senior capstone projects, plus completion of the Fundamentals of Engineering exam through the North Carolina Board of Examiners, meaningfully improves a candidate's competitiveness against more experienced applicants.
Where can I find and apply to mechanical design engineer jobs in North Carolina?
You can find and apply to mechanical design engineer jobs in North Carolina on Migrate Mate, which lists current North Carolina openings updated regularly. Search the listings for roles that match your experience and location, then apply directly to the employers posting them.
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