SENIOR DESIGN ENGINEER
Christensen ArmsUtah, United States
Posted March 4, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
Christensen Arms, founded in 1995 in Gunnison, Utah, specializes in precision firearms manufacturing, pioneering the first carbon-fiber rifle barrel using aerospace-grade materials and processes. With more than two decades of expertise in composites, the company produces lightweight, highly accurate rifles that are sought after by hunters and competitive shooters worldwide. The team blends skilled machinists, assemblers, and sales professionals who share a deep passion for the outdoors, fostering a culture of craftsmanship and innovation. Christensen Arms' commitment to quality and its distinctive use of aerospace technology set it apart as a leader in high-performance firearms.
Job Description
Applies scientific principles to innovate, design, develop, test and implement technologies, components, sub-systems, machines, tooling and systems to ensure compliance to specifications, requirements and customer guarantees across applicable operating conditions.
Requirements
- Designs major components or major portions of functional systems, technically advanced prototypes and promotional or specific products using computer aided design, computer aided simulation and other engineering tools & processes.
- Develops or improves products and facilitates manufacturing operations.
- Develops data and makes layouts, sketches and notes for design proposals.
- Investigates pertinent design factors such as ease of manufacture, availability of materials and equipment, interchangeability, replace-ability, strength-weight efficiency and contractual specification requirements and cost.
- Designs, develops and tests metallic and non-metallic structures or materials and their related fabrication processes for use in engineering designs.
- Manages new product development projects.
- Prepares new or revised designs, drawings and working plans to improve products and facilitate manufacturing operations that meet agreed upon product requirements.
- Creates and presents manufacturing plans using design for manufacturing reviews to ensure effectiveness, viability and quality of manufacturing processes.
- Develops and executes test plans that ensures product designs meet all product performance, reliability, cosmetic and quality requirements.
- Provides technical leadership and assists in training less experienced engineers to help them diagnose and solve problems and build employee capabilities.
- Coordinates with other organizations affected by design development to exchange information, ideas and techniques for design of product or processes.
- Communicates with the other engineering personnel to coordinate the interrelated manufacturing process design efforts and ensure project completion.
- Confers with manufacturing engineering, quality and supply chain personnel on specifications to evaluate interface between hardware and operational and performance requirements of overall system.
- Ensures adherence to the engineering budget and utilizes available scarce resources wisely.
