Mechanical Engineering

Lockheed Martin Corporation•Littleton, CO

34d•Onsite

About The Position

The coolest jobs on this planet… or any other… are with Lockheed Martin Space. At the dawn of a new space age, Lockheed Martin is a pioneer, partner, innovator and builder. Our amazing men and women are on a mission to make a difference in the world and every single day we use our unique skills, talents and experiences to design and build solutions to some of the world's hardest engineering problems. Do you want to be part of a culture that inspires employees to envision the impossible, perform with excellence and build incredible products? We provide the resources, inspiration and focus-if you have the passion and courage to dream big, then we want to build a better tomorrow with you. If this describes you, come join our team as our next Propulsion Engineer! This is a unique opportunity to join an outstanding, experienced team of engineers united by a common passion for pushing the boundaries of space propulsion. As a Propulsion Engineer focused on electric propulsion, you will be responsible for a wide variety of efforts spanning the entire engineering design life-cycle for one or more innovative, game-changing space vehicles, from preliminary concept and requirement definition through hardware build, test, integration and, potentially, launch-site and on-orbit operations. Your duties will include the design of in-space propulsion subsystems. This job requires coordination with customers, suppliers, test facilities, and other related fields including manufacturing, subcontracts, quality, structure design, analysis, systems engineering, and integration with affected subsystems and facilities.

Requirements

Bachelor's or higher degree in mechanical engineering or in a related discipline.
Mechanical CAD modeling and drafting design experience using CREO or similar software and releasing engineering through EPDM or other data management system.
Understanding of mechanical and propulsion engineering principles and processes.
Experience with basic drafting techniques and requirements.
Excellent verbal/written communication, presentation and interpersonal skills with technical and non-technical audiences.
Security Clearance Statement: This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.
Clearance Level: Top Secret

Nice To Haves

Experience with aerospace manufacturing
Experience with tolerance stack analysis
Knowledge of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) per ASME Y14.5
Hardware Design experience
DFX

Responsibilities

Support Subsystem Integration tasks and information requests on an as-needed basis.
Assist on the conceptual development, requirements definition, and design of propulsion components and subsystems.
Perform trade studies to select the appropriate design solution.
Maintain engineering drawings, specifications, and technical analyses to support systems and components.
Ability to work on a multi-disciplinary team performing design trades, detailed design/analysis activity and performance and maintenance assessments of operational systems.
Provide user documentation and recommendations to data packages to support peer and customer reviews, present analysis data to engineering teams, customer technical representatives, and Program Office personnel at technical interchange meetings and design reviews.
Ability to collaborate effectively with adjacent fields (systems engineering, electronics, stress/thermal analysis, configuration management, production, test, quality…)