Mechanical Engineer
Fontana, CAJob$42.23–46.56/hrSeen 5 days agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago
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The Mechanical Engineer designs production machinery systems and related equipment, reviews facility projects, and recommends changes to support legal compliance and required standards. The role advises management, conducts engineering studies of layouts and costs, evaluates vendor proposals, coordinates with purchasing, and verifies project drawings and archives. A bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering is required; experience leading team projects, in rolling mill operations, and in industrial hydraulics is preferred.
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Division: California Steel Industries
Location: Fontana, CA, USA
Other Available Locations: $42.23 - $46.56 an hour plus ROA bonus
Basic Job Functions:
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Designs production machinery systems, with auxiliary and related equipment; including preparing of drawings and documentation.
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Reviews and analyzes projects and proposals for facilities involving changes to production machinery and related equipment.
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Recommends project changes to ensure full legal compliance and to insure that modified or new facilities meet required standards.
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Provide civil engineers with any needed project requirement that require surveys for needed for machinery relocations or changes.
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Serves as technical expert in subject area of engineering practices, to ad hoc or investigating committees developing proposals and recommendations for consideration by CSI management.
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Advises management staff on engineering projects and technical factors restricting or limiting operating departmental proposals.
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Performs engineering studies of building and equipment layouts, to determine optimum arrangements, based on analysis of operating and capital costs, processing yields and losses, in-process time, and manpower costs.
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Analyzes vendor proposals for adequacy and economics and conducts vendor reviews and meetings to coordinate changes or clarify proposals and recommendations.
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Establishes parameters for vendors proposals and coordinates all transactions with CSI Purchasing Department.
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Checks and authenticates drawings for projects within area of responsibility.
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Ensures drawing archives are updated to include the newest drawings when actual construction or installation occurs.
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering
Detailed Selection Criteria:
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Design Knowledge of design techniques, tools and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings and models using Autodesk AutoCAD & Inventor (or Solidworks).
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Project management skills must have experience managing projects from conception to implementation in the mill being worked on.
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Mechanical Knowledge - Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair and/or maintenance.
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Engineering and Technology Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures and equipment to work at hand
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Initiative - Being proactive with seeking out work that needs to be done and being willing to take on responsibilities and challenges.
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Independence Ability to work efficiently with minimal oversight.
Preferences:
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Experience leading a team project.
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Experience in rolling mill operations.
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Experience in industrial hydraulics
Nucor is an Equal OpportunityEmployer and a drug-free workplace
How this job compares
Set against the 7,647 open Mechanical Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$42.23–46.56/hr
- California median$45–55/hr43 hourly ranges
- US median$44–58/hr400 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $44.40/hr, is 11% below the California median midpoint ($50/hr) — in the middle half of Mechanical Engineer hourly ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 1,322 open Mechanical Engineer jobs in California and 7,647 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Anduril Industries78 open
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- Experience
- Mechanical Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 7 years (6,332 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 5,250 of the 7,647 open Mechanical Engineer jobs (69%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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