What are the responsibilities and job description for the Auxiliary Systems Engineer position at Detroit Engineered Products?
Responsibilities to Anticipate for this role:
- Mechanical & Auxiliary design engineering of fluid and distributed systems including fuel, automatic fire suppression, camera cleaning, LRU cooling, and hydraulic and pneumatics to meet customer requirements and specifications.
- Develops and integrates components into vehicle platforms to meet vehicle performance requirements including human factors, safety, environmental, ballistic and mine blast requirements.
- Conducts design, integration and analysis of mechanical components, mechanisms, and shock attenuation systems for mounting devices.
- Applies the mechanics of materials, material selection, welding, and fabrication principles for mechanical components and complex welded brackets, mounting provisions.
- Supports various projects by performing analysis & design, drawing/model mark-ups, tolerance stacks along with generating source data for engineering changes.
- Responsible for writing material requests and shop work requests, track delivery and stock of parts, participate in integration reviews, fit checks, and author reports.
- Provides support to prototype, production, and sustainment vehicle efforts and follow-up, technical corrective action formulation, troubleshooting and redesign activities.
- Present design concepts and program status to functional and program management in a clear, concise manner and in the context of risk management.
- Direct and oversee CAD model and drawing development.
- Conduct failure analysis, produce required corrective action, and troubleshoot and redesign activities and necessary.
- Will work on customer needs for the vehicle, formulate the subsystem and component requirements and meet contract expectations.
- May occasionally be responsible for technical presentations to other engineering groups, the customer and/or leadership.
- May work with different engineering functions of the organization on various programs.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Mechatronics Engineering. Electrical Engineering with experience and desire to work Mechanical systems.
- Focus on Fluid or Distributed Systems is a plus.
- 3 years in a related role is desired.
- Demonstrated understanding of mechanical engineering principles.
- Experience supporting prototype and/or production build activities.
- Demonstrated experience developing fluid system functional architecture, schematics, and analytical models and troubleshooting.
- Experience with root cause and corrective activities.
- Solid modeling experience with NX and/or Creo desired.
- Experience with Teamcenter and Vis Mockup a plus.
