Structural Engineering Manager

Job Summary

General Atomics (GA), and its affiliated companies, is one of the world’s leading resources for high-technology systems development ranging from the nuclear fuel cycle to remotely piloted aircraft, airborne sensors, and advanced electric, electronic, wireless and laser technologies. We are hiring a Structural Engineering Manager to join our team in Acton, MA to provide design and programmatic leadership relating to the development and production of advanced spaceborne electro-optical sensor payloads.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead and manage mechanical analysis activities, including concept formulation, performance predictions and validation testing.
• Mentor more junior level engineers to help develop analysis and test capabilities relevant to EO/IR sensor products.
• Add additional staff and grow existing staff to help meet growing business demands.
• Operate in a program office and customer facing role as needed reporting on progress against schedule and resource needs.
• Cookordination with other engineering disciplines (systems, optical, electrical, and manufacturing) to facilitate information flow that is required to drive product design and build activities.
• Track and understand design requirements and apply sound engineering principles and oversight to meet project requirements.
• Generate and present design review packages for internal and external audiences.
• Support customer and supplier interactions as required.
• Occasional travel may be required.
• Contribute to the development of creative conceptual designs for new products and proposal efforts.
• Help plan and support the environmental testing of hardware including vibration, shock, thermal and others as required.
• Perform root cause assessments on hardware failures. Identify potential solutions and orchestrate team efforts to develop, implement and validate proposed solutions.
• Able to work on multiple assignments and with multiple teams simultaneously.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a Bachelors, Masters or PhD in engineering or a related technical field as well as eleven or more years of progressively complex engineering experience.
• May substitute equivalent experience in lieu of education.
• Ability to perform advanced mechanical analyses including static and dynamic structural and thermoelastic, feeding into STOP.
• Ability to support design and development of hardware to ensure requirements compliance.
• Strong mechanical aptitude, excelling in problem solving and troubleshooting.
• Strong communication, people and organizational skills.
• Able to obtain and maintain a DoD Security Clearance is required.