Title:  Senior Specialist, Mechanical Engineering - TS/SCI with Poly

Job Title: Senior Specialist, Mechanical Engineering - TS/SCI with Poly

Job Code: 41174

Job Location: Palm Bay, FL

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

Job Description:

L3Harris is seeking a Senior Specialist, Mechanical Engineering to support the design, development, integration, and production of advanced aerospace and defense systems. The role partners with cross-functional teams to develop ruggedized mechanical solutions for mission-critical products throughout the product lifecycle.

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.
• 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 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.
• TS/SCI with Poly is required to start.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• 5 years experience in Mechanical design, requirements analysis, specification generation, interface definition, component selection, component 3D CAD modeling, data collection and product documentation
• 1 year experience leading and collaborating in a multi-disciplinary, diverse and dynamic team environment
• Prior or current experience working on avionics products or systems
• 2+ years experience in 3D CAD Modeling – PTC Creo, Catia, NX or SolidWorks
• Prior experience packaging electronics
• Prior experience supporting production/factory level electronics problem solving
• 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.

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