Mechanical/Aerospace Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyze existing technology applications, processes, and products, taking into consideration costs, life cycle considerations, reliability, maintainability, productivity, and long-term support.
• Perform intensive technology research & evaluation of a broad array of alternative solutions to improve existing implementations.
• Define and implement advanced technological implementations and evaluations to provide risk reduction & determine production feasibility of improved and alternate technological implementations.
• Design, implement, and achieve operational status of advanced technological and engineering approaches to satisfy customer needs.
• Organize, conduct, and achieve detailed cross-functional engineering communication, design, evaluation, and implementations providing novel and unique functionality and capability through multi-disciplined engineering applications through:
• Organize technical teams of multi-disciplined persons to construct a range of technological implementations and solutions for a problem area.
• Participate in multidiscipline design teams and process action team efforts.
• Prepare and present design alternatives to a multidiscipline review peer group.
• Prepare and implement designs that apply multidiscipline solutions achieving breakthrough performance and unique technological applications.
• Diagnose existing and future customer needs and opportunities through informal and formal interaction to understand present operations and limitations and customer priorities and needs.
• Lead teams in preparing and delivering detailed program presentations providing technical solutions, cost estimates, and implementation schedules, using information gathered both directly and indirectly to provide customer insight into technological capabilities that could significantly improve operations.
• Ensure strong technical communication and understanding through use of terms, design illustrations, and operating paradigms that are common to the customer experience.
• Gather, track, maintain, and provide detailed technical, cost, labor, material, and schedule information on programs to senior managers including cost, schedule, and technical risk assessments at all stages of implementation.

Required Qualifications:

• US Citizenship.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Security Clearance.
• An undergraduate degree in a relevant engineering field (e.g., Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, etc.) from an ABET-accredited institution and 9 years of directly related experience; or a Master’s degree in same and 8 years of directly related experience; or a Ph.D. in same and 3 years of directly related experience.
• 3 years of technical leadership responsibility.

Desired Qualifications:

• Significant experience with aircraft structures.
• Experience with United States Air Force systems and processes.
• Experience with the Aircraft Structural Integrity Program.