Specialist, Mechanical Engineering

Job Title: Specialist Mechanical Engineering

Job Code: 34575

Job Location: Palm Bay FL

Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days totaling 80 hours worked and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

We are seeking an Electronic Packaging / Mechanical Engineer to work with a cross-functional team to develop Avionics systems. The position will follow the product from conceptualization through hardware integration and testing and will interface with Designers Thermal/Structural Analysts Systems Engineers as well as other engineering disciplines Program Managers and customer counterparts. The position will require performing the mechanical engineering activities related to the design analysis documentation processing fabrication assembly and qualification of product to the specification requirements typically with stringent technical schedule and process requirements. The applicant should have a strong background of design of Avionics based Electronics Assemblies.

Essential Functions:

• Works under general supervision on tasking that is typically assigned with high level requirements may be responsible for entire projects within job area. Some derivation of requirements may be required to support the design.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams in the development of new solutions.
• Strong engineering fundamentals and analytical background with the ability to understand and support analyses and offer solutions related to mechanical electro-mechanical and opto-mechanical systems. Types of analysis include thermal fluid structural and power.
• Create complex mechanical designs and execute layouts for multiple products.
• Demonstrated ability in packaging electrical components such as Circuit Cards Connectors and cables including design integration and validation in rugged environments including ground avionics and/or space.
• Demonstrated ability in developing integrating and validating mechanical electro-mechanical and opto-mechanical designs.
• Support the mechanical design prototyping testing and troubleshooting of designs.
• Support the development of relevant design control documentation.
• Interact with outside vendors to source parts.
• Experience in the design of additive manufactured parts machined parts weldments sheet metal parts and cable assemblies.
• Ability to obtain a US Security Clearance

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree and minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related lieu of a degree minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Prior experience packaging electronics for use in avionics platforms is strongly desired
• Experience in design and testing to military environments (i.e. temperature vibration shock etc)
• Design for Manufacturability and Assembly (DFM/DFMA) experience.
• Experience with machined part design.
• Experience with plastic and/or sheet metal part design.

• Experience with EVMS cost and schedule practices.
• 3 years experience in Mechanical design requirements analysis specification generation interface definition component selection component 3D CAD modeling data collection and product documentation
• Experience withstandard ASME Y14.5M-1994 and GD&T
• Experience with MS Office suite Prior or current experience working on avionics products or systems
• 2 years experience in 3D CAD Modeling PTC Creo Catia NX or SolidWorks
• Experience packaging electronics including design for and testing to military environments (i.e. temperature vibration shock etc.)

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