Senior Specialist, Systems Engineer

About the role

L3Harris Aeromet in Tulsa, OK is seeking a skilled and motivated Systems Specialty Engineer to join the L3Harris Systems Engineering team. As a core member of the Systems Engineering team, you will be responsible for establishing and executing the reliability, availability, and maintainability (RAM) program, procedures, and databases on an airborne system.

Responsibilities

• Understands failure modes and mechanisms at a physical level (e.g., mechanical, electrical, thermal, optical), and at the software level (i.e., Built-in-Test (BIT), interfaces, etc…).
• Reviews Fault Isolation (FI) and troubleshooting procedures for thoroughness and accuracy.
• Supports/Leads the FMEAs/FMECAs (Failure Mode Effects Analysis / Failure Modes Effects and Criticality Analysis) meetings to ensure real-world failures are captured and mitigated within the FMEA/FMECA.
• Calculates observed reliability and MTBF to tie back in with other reliability predictions and models (e.g., RBD, FTA).
• Leads the Maintainability analysis throughout the design and development of the aircraft and mission systems, including Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) and Level or Repair Analysis (LORA).
• Calculates Built-in-Test (BIT) Fault Detection Rate (FDR), Fault Isolation Rate (FIR), and False Alarm Rate (FAR) to support Testability analysis.
• Collaborated with Software Development team for Design for Test with Built-in-Test (BIT) / Built-in-Test Equipment (BITE).
• Promotes a culture of Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), implements Predictive Maintenance (PdM) processes, and recommends both logistical and engineering opportunities to improve long-term sustainability of the systems through a mission readiness lens.
• Contributes to the ongoing oversight of scheduled / corrective maintenance procedures, recommended spare parts lists, and tools and test equipment lists through FRACAS trends.
• Participates in safety analyses, including Human Machine Interface (HMI) and other Human Factors design principles, as it relates to mission operation and success.
• Competency with Integrated Product Support (IPS) / Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) principals to continue provisioning practices and recommendations for a fielded aircraft and mission system to promote high levels of operational availability (Ao).
• Collaborates with the Program Team to prevent and/or mitigate component obsolescence issues via DMSMS (Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages), including supporting parts and component selection for new product design efforts in close collaboration with design engineers.
• Collaborates with Risk Management to issue or support risks based on predicted and observed reliability data and trends.
• Creates professional, data-driven presentations for briefing technical decisions or recommendations both to internal stakeholders and external vendors/customers.
• Set the highest ethical standards for self and others.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a secret clearance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or similar degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience.
• Graduate Degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or similar degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience.
• In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.

Skills

• Ability to productively use desktop software applications such as MS Office Tools (e.g., Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio) and related software tools, is required.
• Ability to work effectively and efficiently in a virtual environment with tools such as MS Teams, Atlassian Jira, etc.
• Proficiency in advanced Excel methods (data structures, pivot tables, manipulation, transformation and visualization) is highly preferred.
• Experience in data mining using business tools, SQL, PowerBI, Tableau, Alteryx, or similar data visualization tool.
• Knowledge and experience in advanced Optical Systems, EO/IR Sensors, or ISR applications.
• Ability to obtain a flight physical.
• Possesses understanding and use of reliability software tools (e.g., ReliaSoft, Relex (PTC Windchill), Reylence).
• Statistical analysis experience using software tools such as MiniTab, JMP, R, MatLab, or similar.
• Technical understanding of electronic components / computer hardware concepts.
• Technical understanding of troubleshooting complex failure modes which include the interactions between software and hardware.
• Ability to interpret and work in a Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) environment to understand the system design and contribute to system modeling in Cameo.

Schedule

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