Position Summary
The Senior Mechanical Engineer applies a working knowledge of engineering fundamentals to the division’s engineering and design activities under the direction of a Project Manager.
The Senior Mechanical Engineer interacts with all OES departments as necessary to provide engineering support to OES manufacturing, integration, and test activities.
Duties & Responsibilities
ESSENTIAL
- Complete engineering tasks that may include a variety of complex features and design requirements.
- Technically manage projects of small scope.
- Develop objectives, schedules, and estimates for assignments and prepare reports on the results.
- Ensure that customer requirements are systematically converted into total system solutions.
- Support the Systems Engineering Program in accordance with customer / project requirements, including the performance of hazard analyses and FMEAs.
- Develop and recommend design approaches for new or improved products or processes. Consolidate results of mechanical design elements for assigned projects.
- Devise innovative solutions to problems.
- Conduct independent technical investigations involving the origination or modification of material, component, or process specifications and requirements.
- Generate work instructions and test procedures.
- Prepare reports and present results to management and clients.
- Interact with customer representatives to define and manage customer expectations.
- Assist in bid and proposal efforts by providing cost estimations, technical approach definitions, and input to baseline schedule data.
- Evaluate vendor capability to provide required products or services.
- May coordinate the efforts of technicians, drafters, technical writers, and other engineers on specific projects.
- May provide work leadership for lower-level employees.
- May review process and evaluate results of work accomplished by self and others.
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 20%.
- Additional duties as assigned.
Qualifications
REQUIRED
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering (or relevant combination of education and experience).
- 3-5 years of practical experience in mechanical engineering.
- Ability to demonstrate good technical judgment, independent evaluation, and ingenuity.
- Ability to occasional work outside normal working hours.
- Ability to interact with customer representatives.
- Proficiency in the application of current engineering software (i.e. SolidWorks, Altium, Matlab, etc).
- Good communication and organizational skills.
- Good technical writing skills.
- Able to apply a working knowledge of the principles, practices and procedures of mechanical engineering and an understanding of related engineering fields.
- Good hands-on abilities for assembling mechanical components.
- Knowledge of CMMI / ISO.
DESIRED
- Master’s degree in related field.
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