Senior Mechanical Engineer

AMERICAN SYSTEMS

Senior Mechanical Engineer responsible for designing complex mechanical systems and providing technical guidance at American Systems. Involves collaboration, evaluation, and solution development for mechanical systems.

Posted 6/6/2026full-timeMcLean • Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $125,000 - $145,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Providing guidance and expertise in mechanical engineering to design complex mechanical equipment and systems
Investigating, evaluating, and developing new applications for existing equipment and systems
Analyzing assigned tasks to provide estimates of manpower and material required to complete
Preparing schedules for accomplishing tasks within estimates
Supervising and coordinating technicians in fabrication and installation of complex mechanical and related electronic equipment and systems
Directing field operation and maintenance activities of mechanical equipment/systems installations
Evaluating operational systems and designing modification to eliminate causes of malfunctions or changes in system requirements
Developing new applications requiring appreciable originality and ingenuity, and complex test procedures for equipment and systems which are significantly different from existing designs
Planning, organizing, and conducting the development of each assignment; coordinating manpower assigned to each activity and coordinating the activities of group involved in various stages of overall program to ensure effective integration
Providing technical guidance to personnel involved with producing design fabrication drawings
Reviewing and correcting drawings to ensure proper engineering techniques and required specifications have been utilized
Developing, releasing, and maintaining documentation in accordance with company and contractual requirements
Reviewing, writing, and editing reports such as evaluation plans, test results, technical manuals, etc. to provide recommendations, conclusions, and other data

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Math, Physics, or Computer Science
Active Secret security clearance or the ability to obtain a Secret security clearance
U.S. Citizenship Required for the purposes of obtaining/holding a U.S. security clearance
Five years experience with ship alterations engineering requirements
Seven years of collective experience in:
- Modeling and simulation of new designs as well as facilitating changes to existing designs using Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM) tools and software
- Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software
- Weight & Moment analysis
- Static analysis
- Commercial and military specification material selection
- Materials alternatives analysis

Benefits

Comp & perks

comprehensive benefits package
healthcare benefits
paid leave
retirement plans
insurance programs
education and training assistance

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Hard Skills & Tools

mechanical engineeringdesign complex mechanical equipmentanalyzing tasksschedulingsupervising techniciansevaluating operational systemsdeveloping new applicationstechnical guidancereviewing engineering drawingsdocumentation maintenance

Soft Skills

guidancecoordinationplanningorganizingcommunicationproblem-solvingleadershipcreativityattention to detailteam collaboration

Certifications

Bachelor’s Degree in EngineeringActive Secret security clearance