Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, development, and qualification of engineering solutions to meet product owners', clients', and stakeholders' needs.
• Perform mechanical services efficiently, proactively, and synergistically.
• Involvement in all stages of the mechanical development cycle, including designing, developing, and improving systems and QA processes.
• Develop integrated spacecraft mechanical designs, working with suppliers and subsystem providers.
• Utilize mechanical modeling tools to design and build spacecraft mechanical models.
• Maintain and manage spacecraft mechanical balance budgets.
• Support hardware developers in selecting materials, processes, and tests that comply with mechanical design standards.
• Coordinate mechanical interfaces between spacecraft subsystems.
• Support linking results and outputs of mechanical models to other modeling and simulation software.
• Assist in establishing and documenting environmental/mechanical engineering and system-level design requirements.
• Manage design to meet all physical, mechanical, and environmental requirements.
• Support program milestone reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR, IDR, etc.) and Gate Closure.
• Address design non-conformances and resolve issues during production.
• Provide program-observed lessons learned for continuous improvement.
• Investigate emerging technologies to develop future product concepts.
• Develop mechanical verification plans, test procedures, and test environments.
• Execute test procedures and document test results to ensure mechanical system requirements are met.
• Deliver high-quality designs on time as part of a team.
• Participate in estimation planning in an agile environment.
• Continuously improve the core competency of the Mechanical Team.
• Monitor and report to management on plans, progress, and issues.
• Perform technical writing and compile technical procedural documents.
• Develop pragmatic solutions without over-engineering.
• Interact and cooperate with customers on all technical aspects.
• Provide technical leadership for Mechanical Design within projects.
• Support the development, selection, tailoring, and deployment of mechanical design processes, tools, and metrics.
• Ensure compliance with the company product lifecycle management (PLM) standards and processes.
• Ensure compliance with the organizations system engineering standards.
• Work closely with other engineering disciplines and project managers within an integrated, cross-functional team environment.
• Support project and business development by formulating and compiling statements of work, technical solution plans, pre-feasibility and trade studies, and system concept proposals.
• Establish, declare, report, manage, and mitigate technical risk.
• Produce and submit deliverables for technical review and baselining.
• Perform technical reviews according to the technical review process.
• Facilitate procurement where applicable.
• Lead environmental tests (specifically mechanical vibration) as required.
• Perform additional roles as per agreed assignments in the Engineering RASCI assignment matrix.

Skills and Experience:

• Coordination and finite element method
• Experience in thermal vacuum testing
• Product lifecycle management
• Technical and peer reviews
• Validation and verification
• Engineering change management
• Non-conformances, root cause analyses, waivers, deviations, etc.
• Building a knowledge base for mechanical engineering capabilities

Personal Attributes:

• Honesty and decisiveness
• Trust and integrity
• Forward-thinking and eager to take initiative

Education/Qualification Requirements:

• A relevant degree or qualification in mechanical engineering or a related field.

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