Design, manufacture, procure, integrate, and test propulsion system components and assemblies. Develop specifications, drawings, technical analyses, supplier requirements, and design solutions. Coordinate with customers, suppliers, manufacturing, quality, systems engineering, and test teams. Support production and test anomaly resolution, procurement evaluations, technical reviews, subsystem integration, and engineering work-product release.
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
- Review 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
- Develop and provide design solutions, of varying complexity, using solid models, detailed drawings, and release of engineering work products under the supervision of a senior Propulsion Engineer.
- 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 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
- 1+ years of related experience
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…)
- Familiar with design for Manufacturability (DFM)
- Experience with supply chain management and subcontracts
- Experience with anomaly management with standard root cause tools (e.g. fishbone or fault tree analysis)
Proficient in AI prompting as it applies to this position and practice
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $79300.00 - $147300.00
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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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