2027 - Mechanical Engineer I (Crewed Land) - Slidell, LA

Textron Systems•Slidell, LA

24d•Onsite

About The Position

This entry-level opportunity is designed to help you build your skills, gain exposure across functions, and grow through hands-on experience, mentorship, and development opportunities. As a Textron employee, you’ll take on meaningful work from day one—contributing to real projects and collaborating with experienced team members across the business. Textron Systems serves defense and commercial customers with the combined expertise of its family of brands: Textron Systems, Howe & Howe, Lycoming Engines and ATAC. These segments offer specialized products and services that fall into several capability areas: Air; Land; Sea; Propulsion; Weapon Systems; Electronic Systems; and Test, Training & Simulation. We tap into these capabilities to deliver exceptional solutions, including product development and manufacturing, training, operations and support. All efforts are backed by the strength of our parent company — Textron Inc. — which includes prominent brands such as Bell, Cessna and Beechcraft. Drawing from our diverse teams of experts and harnessing the unlimited power of teamwork, we put tomorrow’s technology in the world’s hands today.

Requirements

Currently pursuing or have completed a bachelor’s or master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field
Ability to work a 9/80 schedule (with every other Friday off!)

Nice To Haves

Technical internship experience preferred

Responsibilities

Providing creative solutions to mechanical engineering design challenges
Working in an interdisciplinary role, collaborating with peer engineers of varying disciplines.
Solid modeling via NX and Solidworks.
Design capture and configuration management via PLM systems.
Learning how to create professional engineering drawings for manufacturing per industry ASME standards.
Producing designs that leverage common fabrication and assembly processes while working with internal machine shops to manufacture parts on site.
Creating structural designs by leveraging theory and analysis tools.
Analysis and design of tracked vehicle of varying weight classes.
Engine and generator integration into hybrid electric platforms.
Operation of measurement tools, strain gages, and data acquisition systems
Documenting and presenting derived requirements, designs, analysis results, etc.