Engineering Project Assistant

Pittsburgh, PA
Contracted to Full Time
Engineering
Entry Level

As a Deeplocal Engineering Project Assistant (EPA), you'll play an integral role in bringing projects to life that live at the intersection of marketing, technology, tangible interaction, environmental space, and design. You'll leverage project management skills, acute attention to detail, communication skills, and work ethic to deliver world class projects.
For each project, you'll support the Engineering team by assisting the EPMs in being responsible for a range of tasks—from sourcing and testing creative concepts in their prototypic and conceptually early phases to prove out and de-risk ideas from small to large, to researching and building out physical and digital testing platforms, to assembling final products and implementing shake down/break in procedures, to traveling on-site for projects.

Candidates should be aware that EPA’s don't work typical 9-5 hours (at least, not all of the time); during a project, this is a mentally and sometimes physically demanding role that means spurts of long hours to deliver projects on time. The right candidate needs to maintain a positive attitude and collaborative spirit during demanding periods of work. 

This role is the first step into the Engineering Project Management team at Deeplocal and successful candidates will have a path into future roles. 

This is a freelance position with potential for conversion to permanent employment.

Responsibilities

While tasks may change from day to day, the ideal candidate must possess the skills necessary to be responsible to the company for the accountabilities of this job.

  • Prove out concepts - Develop conceptual testing procedures for bid estimation, creative technology, and mock up purposes reporting directly to the EPM manager
  • Supports project estimate creation - Researches project hard costs and vendors to provide support to EPM’s in creating project estimates for pitches.
  • Manage and own taking an idea to a product - Self starter attitude, can take an idea and turn it into something tangible, whether digital or physical
  • Helps to source materials - Locates local or global resources, places orders, and tracks shipping of materials in a timely manner, picks up or schedules deliveries.
  • Sources and grows vendor relationships - Researches, sets up calls with, and listens to vendor capabilities. Creates purchase orders. Maintains a current list of vendors and their capabilities. Checks references. Suggests vendors when needed.
  • General support - Helps with general support as needed for all Deeplocal projects and the office itself. This may include running errands by car, participating in testing, some manual labor, some administrative support, or travel to support live events or installation.

Desired Skills

  • CAD/CAM basics
  • Organizational skills
  • Prompt communication skills
  • Creative thinker & problem-solver
  • Comfortable with ambiguity
  • Excited by new challenges, never-been-done-before work
  • Foundational engineering/technical skills and basic fabrication experience strongly preferred

Location

This is a Studio/Shop-based position. This position’s responsibilities are heavily dependent on being in the studio or shop on a daily basis during core business hours.

 

About Deeplocal

Deeplocal is a quickly growing, internationally-recognized, innovation studio based in Pittsburgh, PA. Deeplocal’s team of 100+ includes experts in marketing, engineering, design, and fabrication who collaborate to develop never-seen-before physical experiences for brand clients.

From creating a mind-controlled bike that allowed riders to shift with their thoughts, to building a robotic pitching machine that allowed a child to throw out the first pitch at a baseball game from thousands of miles away, to a single button that dims the lights, orders food, silencers your phone and puts on your favorite show, to a machine that graffitied tweets on the roads of the Tour de France, our projects are wide-ranging and unique.

Deeplocal has been behind some of advertising’s most talked about campaigns: the Netflix Switch, Google Photos Pay With A Photo, Google Fiber Nick’s First Pitch, and the Nike Chalkbot. Deeplocal’s current clients include Google, Nike, and Nest.

Deeplocal’s studio is located in a renovated brewery loft space in Sharpsburg, PA—just outside of Pittsburgh and within a few minutes of Lawrenceville. All team members at Deeplocal contribute and participate in work for our amazing roster of clients.

Deeplocal has been named one of the Best Places to Work in Western Pennsylvania for the past four years and has received numerous awards in advertising and design. Deeplocal’s work has been featured on Fast Company, Wired, NYTimes, USA Today, the Today Show, Good Morning America, Gizmodo, Engadget, Forbes, and many more.

Our Mission
Invent products and experiences for innovative brands.

Our Purpose
To be a place where amazing talent can invent, create and inspire.

Our Core Values
Deeplocal is committed to maintaining the company's core values and culture as the company grows. Employees should exhibit the following Deeplocal core values:

  • Impactful
  • Efficient
  • Inventive
  • Resourceful
  • Humble

Full Time Employee Benefits Include:

Competitive and comprehensive health care coverage  

Flexible retirement plan with employer matching

Paid vacation time and winter break 

Flexible working style

Family and pet friendly policies, including best-in-industry parental leave

Wellness, Technology and Professional Development subsidies

Community service flex time

 

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