Specialist, Mechanical Engineering
Job Description
Join the L3Harris Technologies, Spectrum Superiority, team as a Mechanical Engineering Specialist, focus on Design for Excellence for advanced communication equipment supporting defense applications. In this role, you will be responsible for the mechanical design and producibility of mission-critical hardware, throughout the lifecycle of the product.
Essential Functions
- Develop optimized mechanical solutions for ruggedized defense communication equipment, including enclosures, chassis, thermal solutions, cable routing, and other hardware assemblies, with a focus on size, weight, and suitability for harsh military environments.
- Apply Design for Excellence (DfX) principles, including manufacturability, assembly, test, reliability, maintainability, and sustainment, to improve product robustness, environmental performance, and compliance with program requirements.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including electrical, systems, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and program management, to drive design solutions that balance cost, performance, and producibility.
- Create and maintain mechanical design documentation, including 3D models, engineering drawings, tolerance analyses, and engineering change packages.
- Partner with internal teams, suppliers, and manufacturing organizations to resolve producibility challenges and improve design maturity for production readiness.
- Support prototype builds, design verification and validation testing, root cause investigations, and corrective action implementation.
- Contribute to product qualification and risk-reduction efforts related to shock, vibration, thermal performance, and environmental requirements.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent and minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience.
- Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience.
- In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.
Preferred Additional Skills
- Experience with SIEMENS Teamcenter and NX
- Experience with military standards, such as MIL-STD-810.
- Experience with Open System Standards, such as VITA and SOSA.
- Experience with SAE AS6500.
- Experience with ASME Y14.5.
- Experience Earned Value Management (EVM)
Pay
The pay range for this role is not specified.
Schedule
Employees work 9 out of every 14 days- totaling 80 hours working- and have every other Friday off.
Benefits
The benefits offered are not specified.
Skills
The skills required are not specified beyond those listed in the qualifications section.
Benefits
The benefits offered are not specified.
Pay
The pay range for this role is not specified.
Schedule
Employees work 9 out of every 14 days- totaling 80 hours working- and have every other Friday off.
Application Instructions
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