Designs, develops, integrates, procures, and tests propulsion system components and assemblies. Coordinates with customers, suppliers, manufacturing, quality, systems engineering, analysis, and test teams. Leads requirements definition, conceptual development, detailed CAD design, technical analysis, supplier procurement, production support, anomaly resolution, and engineering design reviews.
Standard Job Description
Your duties will include responsibility for design, manufacture, procurement and testing of the propulsion system components and assemblies. This job requires coordinating with customers, suppliers, test facilities, and other related fields including manufacturing, subcontracts, quality, structure design, analysis, systems engineering, and integration with affected subsystems and facilities. Other duties may include,
- Subsystem Integration
- Lead the conceptual development, requirements definition, and design of propulsion components
- Develop product performance specifications, statements of work, and supplier data requirements for components
- Maintain engineering drawings, specifications, and technical analyses to support systems and components
- Independently develop and provide design solutions, of varying complexity, using solid models, detailed drawings, and release of engineering work products.
- Independently review requirements, from various sources (instrumentation, dynamics, stress, systems, thermal, manufacturing, etc.) to ensure that applicable requirements are flowed into the detailed design of assigned products.
- Support production meetings and manufacturing & test anomaly/discrepancy resolution
- Evaluate, select, and own the technical aspects of the procurement from the selected hardware supplier
- Provide user documentation and recommendations to data packages to support peer and customer reviews, present analysis data to engineering teams, customer technical representatives, and Program Office personnel at technical interchange meetings and design review.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or in related discipline
- Experience with 1st order analysis in fluids, statics and dynamics, heat transfer/ thermal
- Experience with mechanical CAD modeling in CREO or equivalent
- Excellent verbal/written communication, presentation and interpersonal skills with technical and non-technical audiences
- 5+ years of related experience
- Knowledge of Requirement development and management
Desired Skills
- Experience with propulsion component development and system integration experience
- Ability to collaborate effectively with adjacent fields (systems engineering, electronics, stress/thermal analysis, configuration management, production, test, quality…)
- Experience with using flight telemetry data for analysis and processing
- Experience with supply chain management and subcontracts
- Familiar with design for Manufacturability (DFM)
- Experience developing Proposal documents and Basis of Estimates (BOE’s)
- Experience with anomaly management with standard root cause tools (e.g. fishbone or fault tree analysis)
- Experience presenting to program leadeship and customers during Design Reviews
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $118000.00 - $219100.00
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Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10), 401(k) match, Paid time off, Holidays, Parental Leave, EAP, Flexible Spending Accounts, Education Assistance, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability.
- Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be offered depending on the position. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and can vary from year to year and are tied to a range of performance metrics.
- For (Washington state applicants only) Non-represented full-time employees: accrue at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO) to be used for incidental absences and other reasons; receive at least 90 hours for holidays. Represented full time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays. PTO, Vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on start date during the calendar year.
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