General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems

Mechanical Engineer

• Conduct detailed thermal analysis of solid rocket motor components.
• Collaborate closely with cross-disciplinary teams, interface with customers, and drive technical excellence.
• Apply engineering techniques to design, install, modify, analyze, repair and test tools, engines, machines, and other mechanically functioning equipment.
• Read and interpret blueprints, technical drawings, schematics, and computer-generated reports.
• Specify system components or direct modification of products to ensure conformance with engineering design and performance specifications.
• Investigate equipment failures and difficulties to diagnose faulty operation, and to make recommendations to maintenance crew.

Senior Mechanical Engineer – Thermal Focus

Systems Engineer

• Responsible for the overall systems infrastructure including engineering, implementation and integration, and technical services and support.
• Designs, implements, installs, maintains, and administers infrastructures including hardware, software, and various configurations.
• Monitors overall performance to proactively identify potential issues and tune appropriately.
• Performs root cause analysis on failed components and implements corrective measures.
• Works with others to establish and improve processes and procedures.
• May have sole responsibility for projects and participate in disaster recovery exercises.

Senior Systems Engineer, Solid Rocket Motor

Engineer

• Generate rocket motor concepts from high level thrust/burn time requirements, and refining into detailed grain and nozzle designs.
• Collaborate to define propellant grain geometries and optimize burn rates, thrust curves, and pressure profiles.
• Work with design engineers to communicate operating pressures, analysts to communicate temperature and load profiles, chemists to communicate ballistic requirements, and manufacturing engineers to ensure grain geometry can be produced.
• Conducts research, design, and development activities with the goal of developing new or improved products, processes, or services.
• Collaborates with internal manufacturing partners, contract manufacturers, designers and product specialists to optimize designs for manufacturability.
• Utilizes CAD (Computer Aided Design) or CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) systems to model new designs and produce detailed engineering drawings.

R&D Engineer II – SRM Ballistician

• Lead and coordinate project planning, resourcing, staffing, progress reporting and troubleshooting across multiple programs.
• Lead an Integrated Project Team (IPT) to design, develop, manufacture, and deliver products.
• Work with engineering management to plan, staff, and execute projects of all sizes.
• Serve as engineering interface to program management, senior leadership, and the customer community.
• Ensure project results meet requirements regarding technical quality, reliability, schedule, and cost.
• Perform engineering design evaluations and work to complete projects within budget and scheduling restraints.
• Monitor progress and performance against the project plan.

Senior Project Engineer – SRM

Procurement

• Negotiates favorable terms, volume discounts and long-term contracts with suppliers
• Prepares and processes requisitions and purchase orders for the procurement of goods, services and supplies
• Develops and executes sourcing strategy, evaluates product offerings, recommends suppliers, and negotiates contracts for assigned categories or departments
• Gathers business requirements and identifies and pre-qualifies potential suppliers
• Develops and distributes RFPs/RFQs and collects bids or other information
• Evaluates proposals/quotes based on offering quality, cost, or other criteria and recommends suppliers that are best suited to meet the organization's requirements
• Works with selected suppliers to develop mutually acceptable contractual agreements
• May oversee tactical purchasing operations, such as the issuance of purchase orders or the payment of invoices
• Ensures that all procurement activities comply with internal policies and external regulations

Senior Procurement Specialist

• Conduct detailed thermal analysis of solid rocket motor components.
• Collaborate closely with cross-disciplinary teams.
• Interface with customers and drive technical excellence.
• Apply engineering techniques to design, install, modify, analyze, repair and test tools, engines, machines, and other mechanically functioning equipment.
• Read and interpret blueprints, technical drawings, schematics, and computer-generated reports.
• Confer with engineers and other personnel to implement operating procedures, resolve system malfunctions, and provide technical information.
• Research and analyze customer design proposals, specifications, manuals, and other data to evaluate the feasibility, cost, and maintenance requirements of designs or applications.
• Specify system components or direct modification of products to ensure conformance with engineering design and performance specifications.
• Investigate equipment failures and difficulties to diagnose faulty operation, and to make recommendations to maintenance crew.

Senior Mechanical Engineer, Thermal Focus

Manager

• Prepares, records, verifies, analyzes and reports accounts payable/receivable transactions
• Pays vendor invoices and receives and posts customer payments on a timely basis
• Maintains and reconciles accounts payable/receivable ledger accounts, financial statements and reports
• Prepares analyses and reconciliations of bill runs to detect fraud
• Ensures that transaction entry verification procedures are followed
• May prepare and deliver low-volume customer billing and respond to resulting queries
• Supervises the daily activities of support staff or production team members
• Sets priorities for the team to ensure task completion; coordinates work activities with other supervisors
• Monitors collection period and sends follow-up inquiries regarding payments for the organization
• Negotiates with past-due accounts to resolve all payment issues in a timely manner
• Prepares and evaluates applicable accounting reports to identify trends, inefficiencies, and opportunities for cost-savings or process improvements and relays conclusions to management