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Job Title: Lead, Mechanical Engineering Job Code: 46034 Job Location: Palm Bay, FL & Malabar, 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 requires leading and 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 in the design of Avionics based Electronics Assemblies and experience supporting production of those assemblies
Essential Functions:- Work closely with cross-functional teams to solve complex problems.
- Strong engineering fundamentals and analytical background with the ability to understand and guide 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.
- Lead the mechanical design, prototyping, testing, and troubleshooting of production products.
- Lead 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.
Qualifications:- Bachelor's Degree in engineering and minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
- Minimum 7 years experience in Mechanical design, requirements analysis, specification generation, interface definition, component selection, component 3D CAD modeling, data collection and product documentation
- Experience working on avionics products or systems
- 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.)
Preferred Additional Skills:- Creo experience preferred
- 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.
- Experience with VITA Avionics designs
- Prior experience supporting production/factory level electronics problem solving
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