Mechanical Engineering Designer

Duties and Responsibilities

• Provides leadership in developing design solutions for assigned structural products and components.
• Interacts with engineering staff on design concepts and progress.
• May be assigned design oversight of a sizeable portion of a project or program.
• Develops layouts, sketches, and blueprints and may investigate design factors such as damage tolerance, durability, and structural modeling.
• Revise CAD drawings per Engineering ECN redlines assigned through the Windchill workflow, affecting Details, large assemblies, including cable assemblies.
• Validates conformity to design standards and specifications and identifies design errors and other deficiencies, and recommends changes.

Qualifications

• Typically requires an Associates degree or a certificate from a recognized organization indicating completion of training in CREO, Solidworks, Autocad or NX design software plus thirteen or more years of progressive experience utilizing CAD software with at least five of those years spent utilizing CREO, Solidworks, Autocad or NX or related engineering design software.
• Additional education may be substituted in lieu of work experience.
• Must have a complete and thorough understanding of engineering design concepts and principles and possess the ability to understand new concepts quickly, applying them accurately throughout an evolving environment.
• Must be able to organize, schedule, and coordinate work phases.
• Must also be able to determine the appropriate approach at the task level or at the project level to provide solutions to a range of complex and diverse problems.
• Strong communication, documentation, presentation, and interpersonal skills, and excellent computer skills are required.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance may be required.