Lead, Mechanical Engineering

L3Harris • Palm Bay, FL

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The Lead, Mechanical Engineering position is for an Electronic Packaging / Mechanical Engineer supporting a cross-functional team in developing avionics systems. The role follows products from conceptualization through hardware integration and testing and interfaces with designers, thermal and structural analysts, systems engineers, other engineering disciplines, program managers, and customer counterparts.

The position leads and performs mechanical engineering activities for product design, analysis, documentation, processing, fabrication, assembly, and qualification against specification requirements, often under stringent technical, schedule, and process requirements. It calls for a strong background in avionics electronics assembly design and experience supporting production of those assemblies. The schedule is 9/80: employees work 9 out of every 14 days, totaling 80 hours, and have every other Friday off. The listed job locations are Palm Bay, Florida, and Malabar, Florida.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering and at least 9 years of prior relevant experience; or a graduate degree and at least 7 years of prior related experience; or, in lieu of a degree, at least 13 years of prior related experience.
• At least 7 years of experience in mechanical design, requirements analysis, specification generation, interface definition, component selection, component 3D CAD modeling, data collection, and product documentation.
• Experience working on avionics products or systems.
• Experience with 3D CAD modeling using PTC Creo, Catia, NX, or SolidWorks.
• Experience packaging electronics, including design for and testing to military environments such as temperature, vibration, and shock.
• Strong background in designing avionics-based electronic assemblies and experience supporting their production.

Nice To Haves

• Creo experience.
• Design for Manufacturability and Assembly (DFM/DFMA) experience.
• Experience with machined-part design.
• Experience with plastic and/or sheet-metal part design.
• Experience with EVMS cost and schedule practices.
• Experience with VITA avionics designs.
• Prior experience supporting production- or factory-level electronics problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Work with cross-functional teams to solve complex problems.
• Understand and guide thermal, fluid, structural, and power analyses and offer solutions related to mechanical, electromechanical, and optomechanical systems.
• Create complex mechanical designs and execute layouts for multiple products.
• Package electrical components such as circuit cards, connectors, and cables, including design, integration, and validation in rugged ground, avionics, and/or space environments.
• Develop, integrate, and validate mechanical, electromechanical, and optomechanical designs.
• Lead mechanical design, prototyping, testing, and troubleshooting of production products.
• Lead development of relevant design control documentation.
• Interact with outside vendors to source parts.
• Support product design, analysis, documentation, processing, fabrication, assembly, and qualification.
• Support production of avionics electronics assemblies.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior