Senior Associate, Facilities Engineer
Redmond, WA - USA
Job Summary
Job Title: Senior Associate Facilities Engineer
Job Code: 36897
Job Location: Redmond WA.
Job Schedule: 1st Shift 4/10: Employees work 10 hours per day 4 days a week (Mon - Thu)
Job Description:
We are currently seeking a Facilities Engineer to support design maintenance definition purchasing equipment and general support of the Redmond test facility.
In our Redmond WA site (Seattle area) we fabricate assemble and test chemical and electric thrusters as well as small scale propulsion systems. Our products enable a wide variety of missions from the exploration of our solar system to global communication and the surveillance of severe weather and wild fires.
Essential Functions:
- Design solutions to support vacuum systems used in the hot fire testing of rocket engines.
- Coordinate purchase of equipment components and materials for equipment in the test facility.
- Work with EHS to ensure appropriate use of safety protocols and environmental requirements are met for all facility activities.
- Coordinate activities with internal personnel as well as outside contractors to complete facility projects (replace equipment implement improvements troubleshoot issues etc.)
- Use and operate various computer systems to procure facility equipment.
- Apply general rules to specific problems to come up with logical answers.
- Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with the working team and those contacted in the course of work
- Effectively communicate to supervision/lead person maintenance engineering or other employees of the organization.
- Other duties as assigned to support the overall operation of the test lab
Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience is preferred but not required. Graduate Degree or equivalent with 0 to 2 years of prior related lieu of a degree minimum of 6 years of prior related experience.
Preferred Additional Skills:
- Bachelors degree in Mechanical engineering or related engineering discipline preferred.
- Experience with boiler systems and cooling towers
- Experience sizing vacuum pumps for small to large scale applications
- Familiarity with sizing and specifying hydraulic equipment used for incompressible flow systems (i.e. pumps valves sensors flowmeters etc.).
- Knowledge of high pressure gas systems and industrial electrical systems.
- Ability and willingness to work other shifts and overtime as necessary.
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Required Experience:
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About Company
At L3Harris, we anticipate and mitigate risk with agile end-to-end solutions that meet our customers' mission-critical needs across all domains.