Lead, Mechanical Engineering Secret Clearance

Job Title: Lead Mechanical Engineering

Job Code: 43630

Job Location: Rochester NY

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

Job Description:

L3Harris is seeking a Lead Mechanical Engineering to provide technical and organizational leadership for the development integration delivery and support of Airborne EO/IR solutions. This hybrid management / technical contributor role includes functional leadership of the mechanical engineering team supporting the full system lifecycle as well as practice as an engineer directly contributing to mission-critical programs ensuring alignment with customer needs contractual obligations and organizational objectives. They will work closely with cross functional members in engineering operations manufacturing & program management to design develop build & test high performance solutions. The ideal candidate brings strong people leadership technical expertise and demonstrated success leading the mechanical engineering team in a highly dynamic aerospace and defense environment.

Essential Functions:

• Lead a mechanical engineering team in support of program functional and business objectives
• Provide day-to-day direction prioritization and coordination of engineering activities across organizations
• Serve as a technical contributor to Airborne Solutions programs applying engineering expertise to design development integration verification troubleshooting and technical execution activities
• Translate customer and program requirements into executable engineering plans deliverables staffing needs and performance expectations
• Ensure engineering work products satisfy technical requirements quality standards contractual obligations and program milestones
• Partner with business leadership to balance technical execution staffing cost schedule and risk
• Support technical planning basis of estimate development proposal activities and resource forecasting for new and existing efforts
• Review and approve technical approaches engineering deliverables and key decisions in accordance with organizational processes
• Support cross-functional collaboration among engineering operations quality supply chain manufacturing and program office teams to resolve issues and maintain execution alignment.
• Mentor coach and develop engineering personnel through technical guidance performance management and career development.
• Support workforce planning recruiting retention succession planning and skills development to maintain organizational capability and capacity.
• Support design reviews technical reviews readiness reviews customer meetings and internal status reviews
• Promote a culture of accountability inclusion continuous improvement and technical excellence.
• Ensure compliance with company policies engineering processes regulatory requirements and customer commitments
• Design develop modify and evaluate complicated and difficult mechanical and electro-mechanical components sub-systems and systems.
• Prepare design specifications analyses and recommendations for presentation and approval through a formal review process.
• Analyze develop and recommend design approaches to meet production requirements for new or improved products and/or processes.
• Interface with optical electrical software and system engineers providing engineering analysis (structural/thermal) and CAD design from product inception to released fabrication drawings.
• Provide support for product development and proposals for conceptual CAD layouts and cost estimation.
• Complete documentation and BOMs to support life cycle of new or improved designs.
• Provide support for existing product designs through the production cycle by incorporating engineering change orders (ECO).

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree and minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related lieu of a degree minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
• Active DoD Secret Clearance.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Progressive engineering experience including exposure to defense aerospace avionics mission systems C4ISR weapons space radar communications or other complex regulated environments
• Leadership experience managing technical teams engineering organizations or major engineering work scopes
• Ability to balance strategic technical leadership with day-to-day execution in a fast-paced high-consequence Aerospace & Defense environment
• Experience with requirements decomposition functional analysis architecture development interface management integration verification validation and configuration control
• Development experience involving complex EO/IR systems such as optics visible/infrared detector arrays detector cryogenic coolers digital/analog video signal processing electronics solid-state lasers pointing and stabilization instruments control algorithms search/track algorithms and image reconstruction/exploitation algorithms
• Strong interpersonal facilitation written and verbal communication skills with technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong organizational and multitasking skills with the ability to manage priorities resolve conflicts and meet deadlines
• SolidWorks modeling and drafting experience.
• Basic knowledge of geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) and ANSI Y14.5.
• Knowledge of analysis techniques including linear finite element (FE) stress modeling heat transfer and computational fluid dynamics (CFD).
• Experience with advanced shock and vibration analysis and design for fatigue.
• System development considering machine design and theory of mechanisms thermal design considerations and materials selection for demanding environments and applications.
• Knowledge of mechanical part fabrication processes.
• Experience in designs of electric motors gears bearings and flexures
• Electronics packaging knowledge
• Stabilization guidance and control
• Hardware integration and troubleshooting
• Strong mechanical and geo-spatial comprehension skills
• Control system modeling using Matlab/Simulink

In compliance with pay transparency requirements the salary range for this role in New York state is $106000 - $197000. This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location. L3Harris also offers a variety of benefits including health and disability insurance 401(k) match flexible spending accounts EAP education assistance parental leave paid time off and company-paid holidays. The specific programs and options available to an employee may vary depending on date of hire schedule type and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.