Senior Specialist, Mechanical Engineering

Job Title: Senior Specialist Mechanical Engineering

Job Code: 34577

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:

• Work closely with cross-functional teams in the development of new solutions.
• Strong engineering fundamentals and analytical background with the ability to understand and guide 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.
• Lead the mechanical design prototyping testing and troubleshooting of designs.
• Lead 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 6 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related lieu of a degree minimum of 10 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.
• 5 years experience in Mechanical design requirements analysis specification generation interface definition component selection component 3D CAD modeling data collection and product documentation
• 1 year experience leading and collaborating in a multi-disciplinary diverse and dynamic team environment
• Prior or current experience working on avionics products or systems
• 2 years experience in 3D CAD Modeling PTC Creo Catia NX or SolidWorks

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