Senior Specialist, Mechanical Engineering - Electronic Packaging

Job Title: Senior Specialist Mechanical Engineering

Job Code: 43127

Job Location: Palm Bay, FL

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

Job Description:

We are seeking an Electronic Packaging / Mechanical Engineer to work with a cross-functional team to develop Avionics systems. The position will follow the product from conceptualization through hardware integration and testing, and will interface with Designers, Thermal/Structural Analysts, Systems Engineers, as well as other engineering disciplines, Program Managers, and customer counterparts. The position will require performing the mechanical engineering activities related to the design, analysis, documentation, processing, fabrication, assembly, and qualification of product to the specification requirements typically with stringent technical, schedule, and process requirements. The applicant should have a strong background of design of Avionics based Electronics Assemblies.

Essential Functions:

Works under general supervision on tasking that is typically assigned with high level requirements, may be responsible for entire projects within job area. Some derivation of requirements may be required to support the design.

Work closely with cross-functional teams in the development of new solutions.

Strong engineering fundamentals and analytical background with the ability to understand and support analyses and offer solutions related to mechanical, electro-mechanical, and opto-mechanical systems. Types of analysis include thermal, fluid, structural, and power.

Create complex mechanical designs and execute layouts for multiple products.

Demonstrated ability in packaging electrical components such as Circuit Cards, Connectors, and cables, including design, integration and validation in rugged environments including ground, avionics and/or space.

Demonstrated ability in developing, integrating, and validating mechanical, electro-mechanical and opto-mechanical designs.

Support the mechanical design, prototyping, testing, and troubleshooting of designs.

Support the development of relevant design control documentation.

Interact with outside vendors to source parts.

Experience in the design of additive manufactured parts, machined parts, weldments, sheet metal parts, and cable assemblies.

Ability to obtain US Government clearance.

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree in engineering and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

3 years experience in Mechanical design, requirements analysis, specification generation, interface definition, component selection, component 3D CAD modeling, data collection and product documentation

Experience with standard ASME Y14.5M-1994 and GD&T

Experience with MS Office suite Prior or current experience working on avionics products or systems

2+ years experience in 3D CAD Modeling – PTC Creo, Catia, NX or SolidWorks

Experience packaging electronics including design for and testing to military environments (i.e. temperature, vibration, shock, etc.)

Prior experience packaging electronics for use in avionics platforms is strongly desired

Experience in design and testing to military environments (i.e. temperature, vibration, shock, etc)

Design for Manufacturability and Assembly (DFM/DFMA) experience.

Experience with machined part design.

Experience with plastic and/or sheet metal part design.

Experience with EVMS cost and schedule practices.

#LI-KT1