Principal Mechanical Engineer/Sr. Principal Mechanical Engineer

About the role

Join NGC’s continued mission to push the boundaries of possible across land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. Enjoy a culture where your voice is valued and start contributing to our team of passionate professionals providing real-life solutions to our world’s biggest challenges. We take pride in creating purposeful work and allowing our employees to grow and achieve their goals every day by Defining Possible.

This position is contingent upon contract award/funding.

Responsibilities

• Design and define system architecture for new or existing complex integrated test systems
• Coordinate design of subsystems and integration of total systems in a laboratory environment
• Oversight and ownership of engineering design as well as 2D/3D drawing formats and standards for a wide array of mechanical products:
  • Product details
  • Product assemblies
  • Test Bench/Bay assemblies
  • Top Level installations
  • Thermal Analysis
  • Stress Analysis
  • Weight Analysis
  • Design for Manufacturing
  • FEA modeling
• Development and coordination for internal and customer design reviews for the mechanical and system level designs of our products
• Development of supporting documentation (operating / user manuals, etc.) for our products
• Assist in troubleshooting of built equipment
• Coordinate with engineering manager(s) to ensure product technical data packages meet project schedule commitments
• Coordinate between several internal and external stakeholder groups (Software Development, System Test, Cyber Operations, Procurement, etc.) to achieve contractual commitments
• Establish milestones and monitor adherence to master plans and schedules
• Identify program problems and assist in the establishing of solutions, such as allocation of resources, improved processes, or changing contractual specifications
• Act independently to uncover and resolve issues associated with the development and implementation of programs
• Support process improvement and establishment
• Perform functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications
• Generate reports and present to Government counterparts, defense contractors, and other cross-functional organizations
• Provide leadership and mentoring in addition to being an individual performer
• Has technical insight and experience to know if test set-up and results make sense
• Ability to establish and maintain frequent inter-organizational and outside customer contacts on routine matters
• Coordinate with team lead, electrical technicians, and I&T managers to complete tasking
• May participate, prepare, and present material in program review boards (PDRs, CDRs, TRRs, FRBs, etc.)

Basic Qualifications

• Principle Mechanical Engineer: Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering (or equivalent) with 5 years of related engineering experience OR a Master’s degree with 3 years of related engineering experience OR a PhD with 0 years of related engineering experience
• Senior Principle Mechanical Engineer: Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering (or equivalent) with 8 years of related engineering experience OR a Master’s degree with 6 years of related engineering experience OR a PhD with 3 years of related engineering experience
• Ability to listen effectively, take direction, and possess initiative to accomplish assigned tasks and complete work in a timely fashion
• Ability to read engineering drawings and specifications
• Must be a U.S. Citizen with ability to obtain a DoD SECRET security clearance & special program access
• Ability to obtain/maintain access to work on-site in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
• Experience in Aerospace or Defense industry
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary technical teams
• Ability to diagnose/troubleshoot/repair hardware components
• Experience with CAD or similar design tools

Preferred Qualifications

• Active DoD SECRET or higher security clearance with investigation in the last five (5) years
• Active Program clearance
• Master’s Degree in Mechanical/Aerospace/Additive Manufacturing Engineering or related discipline
• Experience in Additive Manufacturing or 3D-Print design & technologies
• Experience in an Agile development environment
• Experience in Instrumentation or Avionics Systems
• Experience with any of the following CAD Software Tools and Data Management Products: CATIA, SolidWorks Mechanical/PDM, Siemens NX/Capital, Enovia SmarTeam, Team Center, ANSYS Fluent/Mechanical/Icepack/Discovery, Femap/Nastran/Patran, MATLAB
• Experience in Power Distribution Systems
• Experience with HW/SW Integration
• Experience with Nuclear Surety
• Experience in Manufacturing Engineering
• Experience with AS9100, ASME, and ISO Standards implementation
• Experience with nuclear hardened systems
• Experience with design for manufacturing
• Fabrication and testing experience
• Experience with Finite Element Analysis Method and other forms of analysis

Travel

Yes, 25% of the time.

Clearance

Secret; must be a U.S. Citizen with ability to obtain a DoD SECRET security clearance & special program access.

Pay

Primary Level Salary Range: $84,700.00 – $158,600.00

Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results.