Sr. Mechanical Design Engineer

Reporting to:

Design Manager/ VP Design

Job Description

Job Purpose

• The Mechanical Engineer is tasked to research, plan, analyze, design, and develop mechanical products and systems associated with military ground vehicles.
• Analyzes mechanical and related systems in support of measurement, production, and transmission of energy. Uses advanced modeling and analysis tools to develop product specifications, models, technical data packages, and integration and verification procedures.
• Conducts and supports subsystem and system integration and verification activities and manufacturing planning.
• Ensures technical outcomes are consistent with established engineering principles and practices and that customer and company technical, system, performance, and quality requirements are met.

Role and Responsibilities

• Performs basic engineering design, development, analysis, experimentation, test and/or product assurance tasks of limited complexity for assigned portions of a project. Ensures tasks meet cost, quality, schedule, and performance requirements.
• Applies basic engineering design and/or analytical theory, principles, techniques, and practices to a limited portion of a technical project.
• Develops and writes technical documentation, revises existing documentation, and provides input to technical papers or presentations.
• Performs basic technical analysis, testing, calculations, and evaluation of results using specialized equipment and/or by computer programs.
• Analyzes and interprets design specifications, drawings, documentation, models, and/or test results to ensure technical designs comply with applicable engineering standards, military specifications and product requirements.
• Develops and maintains effective relationships with customers to solve technical problems and implement solutions of limited complexity.
• Acquires and maintains up-to-date knowledge of relevant engineering discipline(s), industry practices, trends, and applications.
• Provides Engineering Support to Items in Production (ESIP) for transition of new design to production and resolving issues encountered in the build process.
• Investigates root-cause analysis of design issues arising during production and develops the associated change documentation to resolve design issue.
• Works closely with a team of design engineers and other specialty engineers to resolve design issues that span such areas as structures, ballistics, mechanical, and logistics.
• Works closely with Production, Floor Support, Quality, and Procurement to identify root cause of various production and procurement issues and appropriate path forward.
• Prepares white papers, and variance documentation in response to production issues to support vehicle sales.
• May require daily periods of on-floor support, walking between many locations throughout the day, and climbing in/on the vehicles to assess issues as well as periods in an office documenting findings, and creating and processing associated documentation.
• Maintains a safe work environment and ensures compliance with safety policies and rules.
• Any other assigned tasks related to the job field or required by the management.