Our Company

Filamatic, a division of National Instrument, LLC is a 65-year-old leading manufacturer of packaging machinery for pharmaceutical, cosmetic, biotech, and chemical specialty industries located in Baltimore, Maryland. Our success is attributed to exceeding our customers’ expectations by providing products and services which offer a superior value proposition, striving to create a great working environment for our employees and driving continuous process improvement initiatives.

Core Values

The culture at Filamatic is built on our shared core values-ethical, team-oriented, continuous improvement, golden rule standard (we treat others as we want to be treated ourselves), excellence- (we strive for excellence individually and expect the same from our colleagues and support our employees to improve their skills and talents), customer centric and a healthy and safe work environment. If you are interested in making an impact with a growing company and want to share ideas and help build a world class organization this is the company to join.

Senior Mechanical Engineer Position Summary

Design automated machinery utilizing creative or innovative techniques.

• Design automated machinery.

• Develop new product concepts, technical drawing packages, and cost estimates.

• Incorporate engineering standards for reusable design components and standard parts.

• Interface with engineering, sales, manufacturing, assembly, and technical service.

• Create performance calculations, timing diagrams, flow charts, sequence of events and BOM’s specification sheets.

• Identify commercially available machine components.

• Generate machine models and detail drawings and mechanical assemblies.

• Other duties as assigned or required.

Filamatic provides reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in Engineering/Machine Design/Mechanical or minimum of 10 years’ experience with Machine design/Engineering.

• Minimum 8+ years’ experience of designing production equipment.

• Minimum 5+ years’ experience creating machine designs independently.

• Demonstrated ‘blank page’ design experience.

• Proficiency using Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook etc.).

• Engineering and design principles, Tolerance Stack Up Analysis, Geometric Tolerancing.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Knowledge of FDA, ASME standards/regulations preferred.

• Mechanical aptitude.

• 3D Design experience -Solidworks, engineering and design principles, Tolerance Stack Up Analysis, Geometric Tolerancing.

• Experience with incorporating multi-axis motion control systems, electromechanical systems, and pneumatics.

• Exceptional concept and problem-solving skills.

• Creative and innovative skills.

• Good communication skills.

• The ability to control a project from concept to completion.

• Excellent troubleshooting and diagnostic skills.

• Experience designing automated machinery, such as assembly machines and continuous motion machines.

• Experience with liquid filling machines desired but not required.

• Experience with packaging machines preferred.

• Familiarity with machine shop/manufacturing practices.

Travel Requirement

Occasional travel

Physical Requirements

• Job requires sitting and manual work more than 75% of work time on average, standing, walking, communicating, stooping/kneeling

Environmental Conditions

• Moderate noise.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, transfer or promotion without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status.