Principal Mechanical Engineering

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This role is open for applicants who wish to contribute to cutting‑edge fire detection and suppression solutions worldwide.

This range is provided by Det-Tronics (Detector Electronics, LLC). Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

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With approximately 1,500 employees operating in more than 20 countries, Spectrum Safety Solutions is a global leader in fire detection and suppression solutions for high‑hazard applications across verticals such as critical infrastructure, oil and gas, marine and clean energy. Our global team leverages strong customer relationships across four recognized brands, Det-Tronics, Marioff, Autronica, and Fireye, to deliver differentiated lifecycle solutions and advance growth across key segments.

Carved out from Carrier’s Fire & Security business in July 2024, Spectrum Safety Solutions is now a privately held company under the ownership of Sentinel Capital Partners.

We make the world a better place to live! At Spectrum’s Det-Tronics, we build and maintain comfortable, accessible, efficient, healthy, safe, secure, and sustainable environments. Det-Tronics is a $180M technologically innovative, projects‑based global brand protecting customers in many challenging environments with high‑end flame and gas detection products and systems. Det-Tronics is a part of Spectrum Safety Solutions and has a global footprint with manufacturing sites in the U.S. and sales presence in all key geographies.

The Principal Mechanical Engineer leads and manages hardware aspects of products throughout their entire lifecycle from architecture, planning, design through verification and validation. Provides mechanical‑design technical leadership for teams in cross‑functional new product development and sustaining engineering projects. Hardware design development is for products based on different complex sensing technologies (e.g. Optical, Electrochemical) and communication technologies (wired and wireless).

• Provide technical leadership to mechanical team members.
• Lead mechanical strategic planning, concept generation, architecture definition and translation to system/subsystem/component definitions, with a focus on manufacturability, reliability, safety, and sustainability.
• Lead the capture of mechanical requirements and associated rationale(s) for regulated products.
• Collaborate with other engineers and designers on requirements development, product risk analyses, design and technical reviews, and other product development deliverables.
• Support project managers by providing work breakdown plans and task estimates in support of project plans and schedules.
• Manage tools and processes necessary to ensure traceability from requirements to test cases.
• Lead and contribute to the development of resolutions to product mechanical‑related issues in development projects and manufacturing operations.
• Follow development processes, lead technical reviews, ensure product requirements comply with company standards, and properly document work deliverables.
• Work closely with technical and subject matter experts to ensure accurate and complete use case coverage and regulation compliance.
• Ensure that mechanical designs are rigorously documented, supported and substantiated with analytical and/or numerical analyses e.g., FEA and tolerance analyses, tested at different stages of development, and controlled.
• Establish (as needed), implement, and maintain written verification and testing standards and policies.
• Work closely with Approvals and Test Engineers to develop and execute mechanical tests.
• Participate in roadmap planning and identify competency/resource gaps and implement plans to close the gaps.
• Support multiple product development programs at a given time.
• Develop and implement risk mitigating solutions.

• Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• 7+ years of experience…