Junior Mechanical Engineer in Calgary, Alberta at Bells of Steel Inc.

About Bells of Steel Inc.

At Bells of Steel, our mission is to make fitness and strength training approachable, affordable, and fun. We design and manufacture high-quality strength and exercise equipment for home gym owners and fitness professionals, helping people of all experience levels achieve their goals.

We’re not your typical fitness equipment brand. We’re down-to-earth, a little cheeky, and focused on making fitness more rewarding and less intimidating. If you enjoy a fast-paced, no-BS environment and want to help shape the future of strength training, you’ll fit right in.

Our Core Values: A.C.T.

Adaptability – Raise the Bar
We challenge the status quo, learn quickly, and continuously improve. We embrace change, seek better ways of working, and take initiative to drive results.

Customer Centricity – Always Spot the Customer
Everything we do is focused on helping our customers succeed. We lead with empathy, build trust through action, and create value for both external and internal customers.

Teamwork – We Win Together
We operate with honesty, transparency, trust, and respect. We collaborate openly, take shared ownership of outcomes, and succeed as a team.

We’re looking for an early-career engineer who’s ready to learn fast, get their hands dirty, and own real product work from day one. You won’t be buried on a big team — you’ll be the engineer on the project, with support from product, ops, and factory partners as you ramp up.

This is an in-person role out of our Calgary office. The best designs happen when you can walk into the warehouse, drop a sample on the platform, and load it up yourself.

• Taking a concept, refining it, and making it manufacturable — owning the design from first sketch through tooling and full production
• Designing innovative, multi-use, space-saving equipment that punches well above its price tag
• Producing the deliverables that move a product forward: 3D models, 2D concept drawings, occasional DXFs, and engineering reports (FEA and the like)
• Designing to ISO 20957 compliance so the gear is safe, certifiable, and built to standard
• Living in Autodesk Inventor day to day (SolidWorks experience is great too) — turning ideas into clean, manufacturable drawings and BOMs
• Working hand-in-hand with our overseas factories — including the occasional trip (1–2 per year) for tooling sign-off, sample reviews, and supplier audits, plus the odd industry trade show
• Pressure-testing your own designs IRL — assemble the sample, load up some plates find the wobble before the customer does
• Collaborating across product, marketing, ops, and customer service so the gear works in real garages, basements, and spare bedrooms — not just on paper
• Owning the process, but staying nimble when priorities shift mid-project (and they will)
• Understanding the voice of the customer through reviews and customer feedback, and incorporating that feedback into designs for new products and product revisions

• A Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field
• EIT registration/P.Eng designation or eligibility in Alberta
• 2+ years of mechanical design experience — internships and co-ops count
• Proficiency in Autodesk Inventor or SolidWorks — Inventor is what you’ll primarily be working in
• Working knowledge of steel fabrication (welding, tube bending, machining, finishing)
• Bonus points for any exposure to plastic and iron castings
• Some experience working with overseas manufacturing partners is a plus, but not required — we’ll get you up to speed
• A weightlifting or strength training background doesn’t hurt — at minimum, a real willingness to put hands on the gear and to learn strength training and learn about our customer base
• Strong written and verbal communication — you can ask the right questions and flag issues early
• Process-oriented, but not thrown off by a last-minute pivot

• $70,000–$85,000 base salary, depending on experience
• Health Spending Account
• Hybrid schedule based out of a Calgary office you’ll actually want to come into
• Employee discounts on all our gear
• Access to our staff gym
• A team that actually likes what they do