Sr. Mechanical Engineer

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Teledyne Technologies Incorporated provides enabling technologies for industrial growth markets that require advanced technology and high reliability. These markets include aerospace and defense factory automation air and water quality environmental monitoring electronics design and development oceanographic research deepwater oil and gas exploration and production medical imaging and pharmaceutical research.

We are looking for individuals who thrive on making an impact and want the excitement of being on a team that wins.

Job Description

Job Summary:

The Sr. Mechanical Engineer role is for someone with experience in small efficient and low mass work efficiently and thrive on difficult challenges often doing the impossible by finding novel want to be in an environment where continuous learning is not only encouraged but also want to be a top-level contributor who will take ownership of their role and projects. You are passionate about quality but more importantly the customer experience and ensuring this is the best it can position will be responsible for design test and release of highly reliable light weight structural designs and mechanisms for drone vehicles payloads and ground station components.

Primary Job Duties & Responsibilities:

• Utilize your experience with lightweight structural design and materials to design key components and structures for our current generation unmanned systems.

• Optimize for aerodynamic profiles and efficiencies.

• Utilize Finite Element Analysis (FEA) experiments and rapid prototyping to design products for durability performance and manufacturing quality.

• Develop and conduct tests to validate design across full operational capability envelope and environment.

• Deliver market leading designs with Design for Manufacturing (DFM)/Design for Assembly (DFA) methods and techniques.

• Demonstrate strong communication skills; active collaboration with team leads management and other team members is expected. The Sr. Mechanical Engineer takes broad high-level requirements and feedback to generate specific design tasks and outcomes; owns and drives meetings as applicable.

• Take strong ownership of assigned systems programs customers etc. Actively curate subsystem requirements performance and timeline. Require very little direction from management in moving projects forward against agreed upon timelines.

• Coordinate with suppliers during development and production.

• Coordinate with production staff to provide training Manufacturing Test Requirements (MTRs) work instruction review and troubleshooting of design issues.

• Create and control design data from concept to product sustainment; support engineering change processes within Teledyne FLIR and with government customers as required.

Job Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering required.

• 6 years of professional experience in mechanical design of weight and size sensitive assemblies and components.

• Strong part and assembly design experience showing optimization for stiffness and low mass.

• Demonstrated strong record of technical innovation research and development of complex mechanical systems.

• Strong analytical skills with demonstrated experience in technologies that can be successfully applied to drone developments.

• Experience with PDM tools and understanding of configuration control practices.

• Experience with battery motor and/or UAV propulsion systems preferred.

• Expertise with Solidworks 3D modeling drawing and simulation software is strongly preferred.

• Experience leading technical projects and teams preferred.

Applicants must be either a U.S. citizen U.S. national legal permanent resident asylee refugee or must be eligible to apply for and obtain the appropriate export control license from the U.S. Departments of State or Commerce.

About Teledyne FLIR Defense

Join Teledyne FLIR Defense where were dedicated to supporting critical missions with an exciting range of cutting-edge technologies. Our products include advanced surveillance sensors unmanned air and ground vehicles sensing devices used to detect chemicals biological agents radiation and explosives and a host of other solutions that help warfighters first responders and search-and-rescue teams do their jobs better.

Were looking for passionate innovators eager to shape the future of the Defense and Public Safety industries. If youre mission-driven to globally collaborate on solutions that can change the battlefield and save lives we invite you to explore our current opportunities.

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Teledyne and all of our employees are committed to conducting business with the highest ethical standards. We require all employees to comply with all applicable laws regulations rules and regulatory orders. Our reputation for honesty integrity and high ethics is as important to us as our reputation for making innovative sensing solutions.

Teledyne is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or veteran status age or any other characteristic or non-merit based factor made unlawful by federal state or local laws.