Senior Mechanical Engineer

Open the Door to Your Future with Clopay Corporation & CornellCookson At Clopay Corporation , we are more than just North America’s largest residential and commercial garage door manufacturer—we are a powerhouse of innovation, safety, and design. Through our premier brands, we lead the industry in providing groundbreaking high-performance closure solutions for both the places people call home and the spaces where the world does business. Headquartered in Mason, Ohio , and operating state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in Troy, Ohio, Russia, Ohio, Mountaintop, Pennsylvania , and Goodyear, Arizona , we are a proud American-owned company and a wholly owned subsidiary of Griffon Corporation. Our reach extends across 55+ distribution centers and thousands of retail locations in the U.S. and Canada ensuring that we deliver the right door for every opening – from homes to businesses and beyond. By joining our team, you become part of a legacy that blends the residential elegance of Clopay, known as "America’s Favorite Garage Doors," with the industrial strength and 180-year heritage of our rolling brands, Cornell and Cookson. Together, we secure everything from family garages to the world's most iconic stadiums and skyscrapers. We currently have an opening for a Senior Mechanical Engineer - New Product Development in our Mason, Ohio location. Summary: We are looking for an engineer who thrives in an environment of high autonomy and end-to-end project ownership. You will be at the center of the action, driving the entire product lifecycle—from initial ideation, sketching, and rapid physical prototyping to hands-on testing, validation, and seamless integration with manufacturing. This is your chance to lead projects, make critical design decisions, and shape our next generation of products. Responsibilities: Drive Autonomy & Project Leadership Take full end-to-end ownership of major product lines, leading projects through our Phase Gate process from initial napkin sketch to final market release. Collaborate with and lead multidisciplinary teams, acting as the engineering authority who keeps projects on track and aligned with technical goals. Go beyond the blueprints to build firsthand expertise on customer challenges and market opportunities, partnering with Strategic Marketing to translate insights into robust, functional designs. Present and sell your concepts clearly to stakeholders at all levels, from shop floor associates to the executive leadership team. Spearhead Hands-On Prototyping, Ideation & Validation Bring your ideas off the screen and into the real world. Actively participate in the rapid prototyping process, working side-by-side with technicians to build and iterate physical assemblies. Don’t just rely on software models. Own the testing process by designing custom test setups and validation protocols to prove out your designs under real-world stress, ensuring compliance with structural and life safety codes (ASCE, IBC, UL, etc.). Work closely with manufacturing teams to ensure your prototype designs are optimized for scalable, production-ready fabrication. Master Engineering Design Utilize Autodesk Inventor to create detailed part and assembly models, building high-quality parametric standards. Develop robust engineering standards and calculations for infinitely variable designs and implement them directly into our ERP system. Manage the final deployment of new products via the engineering change order (ECO) process and write the clear, practical installation manuals our field installers rely on. Required Qualifications: A Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering and 5 to 10 years of professional experience in product design or product development. Brings practical experience through hands-on hobbies or personal projects, such as classic car restoration, engine rebuilding, woodworking, custom machining, welding, or building complex projects in a home workshop. Comfortabl…

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