Specialist, Mechanical Design Engineer
L3Harris Technologies
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Cincinnati • Ohio • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Applies mechanical engineering principles to support, and maintain, L3Harris FOS product lines during design, development, and production.
- This role supports design, development, and testing of new products; interacting with a multidisciplinary design team and working within established design guidelines to ensure products meet or exceed customer specifications.
- In addition, this role supports production of existing products, working with manufacturing and quality to troubleshoot issues, document changes, and adhere to AS9100 and ISO9001 quality standards.
- Act as lead mechanical engineer on various programs holding the responsibility for ensuring the designs and product performance meet customer specifications.
- Apply mechanical engineering principles to generate new designs, or modify existing designs, in accordance with company design guidelines and procedures.
- Apply configuration management principles to design documentation and technical data packages.
- Generate, modify, and interpret engineering drawings, specifications, compliance matrices, etc. in accordance with industry, company, and customer requirements.
- Collaborate with engineering analysts to conduct finite element analysis on new designs showing compliance to internal guidelines, DoD requirements and customers' specifications.
- Participate in failure investigations, where appropriate, related to design, production build processes, and customer returns.
- Prepare materials for internal and customer design reviews, and effectively present material to design review teams.
- Devise design verification test sequences to demonstrate compliance with specified performance environments (temperature, vibration, shock, acceleration, etc).
- Prepare associated test plans, and test reports.
- Participate in efforts to drive process improvements which increase efficiency and lower cost.
- Support active production, which includes but is not limited to test fixture and tooling designs, product trouble shooting, document and drawing updates, process control improvements, and product design improvements.
- Maintain a positive work atmosphere by acting and communicating in a manner that is cooperative and supportive of customers, co-workers and managers.
- Ability & willingness to be adaptable and accept feedback as part of the design review process.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical, Aerospace or other related Engineering field and a minimum 4 years of prior relevant work experience
- Graduate degree and a minimum of 2 years prior relevant work
- In lieu of a degree, minimum 8 years of prior related experience
- Professional experience with CAD software such as Solid Edge, SolidWorks, NX etc.
- Professional experience with GD&T application and interpretation
- Professional experience with dimensional stack-up/tolerance analysis
- Professional experience with manufacturing methods and design for manufacturability (DFMA)
- Must be able to obtain a US Security Clearance.
Benefits
- competitive benefits
- an alternative 4/10 work schedule
- the opportunity to work with a talented and diverse group of professionals
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
mechanical engineeringfinite element analysisdesign verification testingGD&T applicationdimensional stack-up analysisdesign for manufacturabilityconfiguration managementengineering drawings interpretationtroubleshootingprocess improvements
Soft skills
collaborationcommunicationadaptabilitycustomer supportteam leadershippresentation skillsproblem-solvingcooperationfeedback acceptanceorganizational skills
Certifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical EngineeringBachelor’s Degree in Aerospace EngineeringGraduate degree in EngineeringUS Security Clearance