Senior Principal Transmissions Engineer (Onsite)

What You Will Do

• Technical Leadership & Presentation: Lead multidisciplinary teams to tackle MSEN transmissions' top technical issues and seamlessly integrate gearbox designs, presenting key results to customers and executive leadership.
• Gear Design & Analysis: Perform comprehensive design and analysis on aerospace hardware across varied gear types (spur, helical, bevel, and spiral bevel) using automated tools, FEA, and precise hand calculations.
• Root Cause Investigation (RRCA): Spearhead transmission's root cause investigation teams—directing work, assigning/closing action items, and delivering findings to engineering leadership.
• Mentorship & Peer Review: Review team members' work and provide hands-on guidance to less experienced engineers with a specific focus on accelerating proficiency.
• Supplier Requirement Integration: Actively manage, align, and integrate the complex technical requirements of external suppliers holding design ownership.
• Full-Lifecycle Testing: Lead entire test programs, including rig development, test plan creation, instrumentation/limit selection, pre-test predictions, data post-processing, and reporting.
• Continuous Improvement & Manufacturing: Advance gear manufacturing readiness (hobbing, shaping, broaching, milling, heat treating, superfinishing) while improving ESW/EKS, analytical tools, and training materials.
• Travel Requirement: 10% (Domestic and International).

Qualifications You Must Have

• A Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field with 10 years of gear design and analysis experience, or an Advanced degree in a related field with 7 years of gear design and analysis experience.
• At least 3 years of direct experience working with complex Mechanical Systems hardware with proven expertise in industry-standard tools for gear design and manufacturing.

Qualifications We Prefer

• A Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or actively pursuing an Advanced degree in a related field.
• An active U.S. Security Clearance.
• Exceptional communication, task coordination, and cross-functional leadership skills.
• Proficiency in Gleason Works software and Siemens NX.