Principal Mechanical Engineer

Principal Mechanical Engineer

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or similar Engineering discipline and 8 years of professional relevant experience.
• Experience with Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T)
• Experience with CREO or similar CAD tools
• Experience with developing a mechanical component or subsystem
• Active and transferable U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to one or more of our contract-funded and independent research efforts, each of which is at a different phase of development (proposal, design, and integration/test).
• Communicate with cross-disciplined, diverse engineering team members and suppliers to analyze, model, and document the design technical data package (TDP) and its capabilities and compliance to requirements.
• Work under limited supervision and act as the responsible engineer often in a project management role over entire subsystems within an effort. This often requires the ability to direct, delegate and review the work of others.
• Tasks include supporting development or production, leading proposal activities, and technical management of mechanical engineering disciplines throughout the product life cycle. Must be capable of collaborating and coordinating with Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, and other Engineering disciplines to resolve issues.
• Initial responsibilities for this role will be on site at a Huntsville supplier to provide execution focus, technical oversight, identify producibility improvements, implement manufacturing best practices and process, and proven ability to provide real time engineering and manufacturing decisions to support product manufacturing.
• Perform mechanical design, development, and documentation of components, sub-assemblies, and major end items for defense system equipment in accordance with system requirements.
• Collaborating across multiple disciplines with Structural and Thermal analyst, Materials Engineering, Quality, Safety, Supply Chain.
• Lead a team(s) with limited supervision and meet commitments for assigned schedule, financial, and technical goals.
• Work thru engineering problems associated with large structures, welded assemblies, component integration, mechanisms, electronic assemblies.
• Support suppliers with product integration.
• Strong understanding of Thermal, Structural, Dynamic, and Reliability analysis to provide inputs and support. Incorporate results and findings into mechanical design.
• Perform and review tolerance analyses to ensure form, fit, and function are as intended by design for the use-application.
• Improve new and existing designs using Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA) and Design for Producibility principles.
• Apply knowledge and experience in technical problem solving and hardware development in a fast paced, team environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point & Project) Experience
• Demonstrated ability in technical execution.
• Mechanical aptitude to provide solutions to a variety of technical problems of moderate scope and complexity.
• Strong technical background with high technical aptitude
• Strong leadership skills and project management experience