Mechanical Engineer III – Custom Development

At a Glance

Focal Point is seeking a Mechanical Engineer III to join our Custom Development team, playing a key role in delivering world-class luminaire designs. This position focuses on customizing existing products to meet customer specifications by leading design and engineering efforts, including prototyping and validation, ensuring compliance through regulatory testing, and collaborating closely with manufacturing teams to confirm production readiness. Additionally, the role involves setting up business systems to ensure operational efficiency and successful implementation. Reporting to the Custom Engineering Development Leader, this role is an exciting opportunity to contribute to innovative lighting solutions in a dynamic, cross-functional environment.

What Will You Do?

Role & Responsibilities:

• Lead advanced custom development initiatives for highly complex technical and architectural applications. Responsibilities include designing and implementing tailored solutions that integrate seamlessly with standard product architectures, while ensuring full compliance with regulatory, photometric, and quality standards.
• Develop scalable custom solutions that enable future customization, streamline operations, and enhance supply chain efficiency.
• Leverage advanced design methodologies and industry best practices to improve first-pass yield and accelerate time-to-market.
• Proactively identify risks and address potential issues early in the design cycle, while driving process improvements to enhance efficiency and product quality.
• Collaborate closely with Customer Service, Industrial Engineering, and Regulatory teams to ensure designs align with customer requirements and uphold the intended application objectives.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously while meeting established lead times.
• Perform peer review of designs to assist teammates and ensure best practices are followed and lessons learned are incorporated.

Required Skills

Requirements:

• 5-10 years of professional engineering work experience, preferably in custom development.
• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from an accredited program.
• 3D CAD software expertise, SolidWorks preferred.
• Ability to interpret and apply GD&T.
• Experience with sheet metal, casted, and injection molded part design.
• Experience in cost reduction related projects.
• Demonstrated success working in cross-functional teams through projects or organizations.
• Lighting industry and optics design experience preferred but not required
• Salary Range: $95,000 - $105,000 starting base plus bonus
• Summary of Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, PTO, Disability, Parental Leave, 401K w/ company match

Competencies:

• Ability to lead custom development projects from concept through design, assembly, and final delivery, ensuring quality and customer satisfaction.
• Tenacious problem-solver, with an energetic approach to raising the bar. Someone the team will wish to seek/engage to solve tough design challenges.
• Self-motivated, self-directed, and able to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication and organizational skills – ability to forge relationships with others and align on the best decision.
• Detail-oriented, with a desire to “roll up your sleeves” to help your team successfully meet project deadlines.
• Customer-focused with a strong sense of urgency.
• Team player - demonstrated history of building rapport and quickly integrating with a new team.
• Business Acumen – the ability to quickly analyze options to formulate the best value plan.

The Company: 

For more than 25 years, Focal Point, a brand of Legrand, has brought it all to light with beautiful, efficient luminaires and acoustic solutions that stand the test of time, human-centric technology, and a commitment to being easy to do business with. We are vertically integrated, Chicago-based architectural lighting and integrated acoustical systems manufacturer and pride ourselves on delivering exceptional products and services to those who specify and install them. Because we’re separated by hallways and not highways, we control the process from conceptual design, to engineering, to manufacturing, through to shipping. As a result, we provide superior quality, customization capabilities, and quick answers, all from right here, in the middle of America. 

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Focal Point is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All candidates will be evaluated on the basis of their qualifications for the job in question. We do not base our employment decision on an employee's or applicant's race, color, religion, age, gender or sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic identity, genetic information, disability, veteran/military status or any other basis prohibited by local, state, or federal law. 

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About Legrand

Legrand is the global specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructures. Our comprehensive offering of solutions for residential, commercial, and data center markets makes us a benchmark for customers worldwide. We harness technological and societal trends with lasting impacts on buildings with the purpose of improving life by transforming the spaces where people live, work, and meet with electrical and digital infrastructures and connected solutions that are simple, innovative, and sustainable. Legrand is a global, publicly traded company listed on the Euronext (Legrand SA EPA: LR). For more information, visit www.legrandgroup.com/en

About Legrand North and Central America

Legrand, North & Central America (LNCA) is a leader in the AV, Lighting & Controls, Electrical, and Data Center markets. LNCA offers comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, as well as distinctive benefits like a high employer 401K match, paid time off (PTO) and holiday pay, short-term and long-term disability benefit plans, above-benchmark paid maternity and parental leave, bonus opportunities in accordance with the Company’s incentive plans, paid time off to volunteer, and an active/growing Employee Resource Group network. For more information, visit legrand.us 

About Legrand’s Lighting Sector

Legrand’s Lighting Sector consists of five lighting brands; Pinnacle, Finelite, Focal Point, and OCL which focus on architectural, decorative, and downlighting and Kenall which focuses on lighting for demanding environments.  We employ a talented group of employees that love lighting to design and manufacture high performance, energy efficient LED lighting solutions for applications in commercial, educational, healthcare, as well as challenging environments such as tunnels and correctional facilities.  With an eye toward sustainable design, our focus is on specification-oriented products and solutions that meet the functional needs of spaces while working in harmony with the designer’s vision for those spaces. We work with architects, engineers, and contractors to supply lighting built specifically for their client’s projects.   

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