
Senior Mechanical Designer
Mentor, OHJob$58–77K/yrSeen 2w agoSeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
The Senior Mechanical Designer develops product designs, detailed drafting, and design-control documentation for sterile processing equipment used in hospitals. The role supports mechanical and electromechanical product development, maintains specifications and design records, and helps resolve design challenges. Based at STERIS’s Mentor, Ohio headquarters, the designer works with cross-functional teams and vendors to support new product development and meet project and quality objectives.
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Position Summary
This position is responsible for developing design documentation for Sterile Processing Department (SPD) reprocessing equipment used in hospitals worldwide. These sophisticated systems sterilize or provide high-level disinfection for a wide range of medical instruments, helping ensure physicians can safely perform surgeries and other critical medical procedures. This role offers the opportunity to join a highly collaborative team that plays a vital role in the design and development of life-saving healthcare technology.
The Senior Designer is responsible for product design, detailed drafting, and design control activities using CREO (or comparable CAD software) and Windchill PLM. The role supports the development of mechanical and electromechanical products by creating and maintaining design documentation, product specifications, and assisting in the resolution of design challenges. Working closely with cross-functional teams, the Senior Designer will support new product development initiatives while ensuring designs meet project objectives, quality standards, and company requirements.
This position reports to, and is based in, our Mentor, Ohio headquarters.
What You'll Do as a Senior Designer
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Reliably produces high quality designs and documentation that are first time right.
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Develops complex product designs and associated engineering documentation with limited guidance from engineers of lead designers.
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Solves problems independently, utilizing problem solving techniques, referencing historical designs, referencing standards and other resources.
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Effectively utilizes design tools (CREO Preferred) within Product Lifecycle Management systems (Windchill Preferred) to control and release designs.
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Provides accurate effort estimates and then executes design efforts on-time.
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Leads communication with vendors, sourcing, manufacturing, service and other functions to realize designs.
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Initiates ECNs to implement simple to moderately complex design changes, following the corporate change process, while works with appropriate subject matter owners.
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Experience with Windchill PLM
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Is able to work cross-functionally with minimal oversight
The Experience, Skills and Abilities Needed
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Technical Associate's degree, drafting certification, or vocational training.
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7+ years of progressive experience required.
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Proficiency with advanced functions of technical software design packages (CREO, AutoCAD, EPlan).
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Proficient in advanced/complex technical design documentation (drafting, schematics, layouts, symbols)
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Expert in product lifecycle management through release and change management documentation.
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Experienced designing in multiple manufacturing methods within the technical function (machining, injection molding, cable harnesses, etc.)
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Hand-on aptitude within the technical area of expertise (oscilloscopes, calipers, hand tools, multimeters).
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Proficient in Microsoft products; Excel, Word, Project, and Power Point.
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Effective written and verbal communication.
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Significant Experience working with Creo and/or Windchill PLM
What STERIS Offers
At STERIS, we invest in our employees and their families for the long term! STERIS wouldn't be where it is today without our incredible people. We share our success together with you by rewarding you for your hard work and achievements.
Here is just a brief overview of what we offer:
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Competitive Pay
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Extensive Paid Time Off and (9) added Holidays.
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Excellent healthcare, dental, and vision benefits
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401(k) with a company match
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Long/Short term disability coverage
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Parental Leave
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Additional add-on benefits/discounts for programs such as Pet Insurance
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Continued training and educations programs
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Excellent opportunities for advancement in a stable long-term career
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Pay range for this opportunity is $57,750.00 - $77,000.00. This position is also eligible for bonus participation.
Minimum pay rates offered will comply with county/city minimums, if higher than range listed. Pay rates are based on a number of factors, including but not limited to local labor market costs, years of relevant experience, education, professional certifications, foreign language fluency, etc.
STERIS offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits portfolio. Click here for a complete list of benefits: STERIS Benefits
Open until position is filled.
STERIS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to ensure that persons are recruited, hired, trained, transferred and promoted in all job groups regardless of race, color, religion, age, disability, national origin, citizenship status, military or veteran status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, and any other category protected by federal, state or local law. We are not only committed to this policy by our status as a federal government contractor, but also we are strongly bound by the principle of equal employment opportunity.
How this job compares
Set against the 550 open Mechanical Designer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$58–77K/yr
- US median$77–108K/yr205 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $67K, is 27% below the US median midpoint ($92K) — in the lowest quarter of Mechanical Designer salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 24 open Mechanical Designer jobs in Ohio and 550 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Ohio
- Actalent4 open
- KFI Engineers, P.C.4 open
- IMEG CORPORATION2 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 7 years of experience; Mechanical Designer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (464 postings).
- Education
- 49 of the 550 open Mechanical Designer jobs (9%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 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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