What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Mechanical Design Engineer position at Confidential Jobs?
The Senior Mechanical Design Engineer (Senior Survivability Engineer) will be responsible for the development and integration of key technologies which include metallic/composite armor and structures, advanced electro-optic and radar sensors, high powered computing assets, chemical weapon protective equipment and pyrotechnic countermeasure systems.
Responsibilities
- Support and participate in armor subsystem and vehicle-level integration, armor testing and verification activities.
- Define and integrate passive and active protection solutions for combat vehicles.
- Define and integrate signature management solutions including thermal, acoustic and visual
- System requirements analysis and synthesis of solutions
- Develop data and create design layouts, sketches, and notes necessary for design changes.
- Coordinate with Materials Engineer to ensure proper materials are used.
- Provide knowledge of survivability discipline; specifically related to the metals/materials used.
- Ability to communicate and determine design factors such as availability of materials and equipment, interchangeability, efficiency of metals or materials while maintaining government specifications and requirements.
- Participate in the generation and revision of engineering drawings, reports, and procedures.
- Represent the company or the Survivability team at internal meetings or meetings with subcontractors, partners, and customers.
- Ability to travel up to 25% of the time. Occasional international travel may be required.
Qualifications
- BSc Engineering (Mechanical, Materials, or equivalent)
- 10 years of engineering experience in the defense, aerospace, or automotive industry.
- Experience in the design and development of armor vehicles; and/or armor plating.
- Ability to work within CAD based design systems.
- Knowledge of or ability to learn model-based systems engineering techniques.
- Ability to present technical solutions to clients and internal stakeholders.
- Familiarity with the US DoD ground vehicle requirements.
- Knowledge of the US DoD process and procedures for vehicle development and acquisition.
- Knowledge of Military Standards.
- Familiarity with the US Army TACOM / TARDEC organizations.
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Practical ‘hands on’ attitude with the ability to operate independently.
- Hands on knowledge on domain of vehicle survivability technologies and equipment.
- Practical ‘hands on’ attitude with the ability to operate independently.
- Ability to present technical solutions to clients and internal stakeholders in meeting environments.
- Has the ability to obtain US Defense clearance up to SECRET.
- Well-rounded engineering background with coursework in mechanical engineering, electrical, software and materials.
Preferred Qualifications:
- MSc Engineering desired (e.g. Mechanical, Electrical, Systems, Management)
- Military experience
- Ability to manipulate or create components in 3D modelling software such as CREO
- Understanding of Systems Engineering and related standards and processes
Salary : $120,000 - $160,000
