Specialist, Reliability and Systems Safety Engineer

L3Harris•Canoga Park, CA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

L3Harris Propulsion Systems, within the Missile Solutions Segment, is seeking a Specialist Reliability and Systems Safety Engineer to join the Missile Propulsion Systems Engineering and Integration team in Canoga Park, California. The team designs, manufactures, and deploys propulsion and energetics systems, including rocket motors, for customers such as the U.S. Department of Defense and NASA. This fully onsite role supports propulsion technologies for national defense and space missions, performing reliability and safety analyses across a diverse product portfolio and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to support product reliability and compliance with safety standards. The position is scheduled on a 9/80 work schedule: employees work nine days in each 14-day period, totaling 80 hours, and have every other Friday off. Travel is 10%. The role requires the ability to obtain a U.S. Secret security clearance.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree and at least 4 years of prior Reliability System Safety experience; or a graduate degree and at least 2 years of prior experience; or, in lieu of a degree, at least 8 years of prior Reliability System Safety experience.
Ability to obtain a U.S. Secret security clearance.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related discipline.
Advanced degree in a related field.
Active U.S. Secret security clearance.
Technical experience, preferably in aerospace or defense, including reliability analysis, development of FMECAs and PFMECAs, and application of MIL-STD-882E.
Formal coursework in Reliability Engineering.
Knowledge of solid rocket motor systems.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain reliability and safety models for systems, including Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analyses (FMECAs), reliability predictions, subsystem hazard analyses, and range safety assessments; communicate findings to stakeholders.
Recommend improvements to product reliability and safety and collaborate with engineering teams and program stakeholders to integrate reliability principles into design processes.
Design and implement reliability test plans for new products and processes; analyze test anomalies and apply reliability engineering techniques to support quality standards.
Drive program compliance with Reliability and System Safety procedures and standard work requirements.
Perform Probabilistic Risk Assessments and lead fault tree analyses related to product anomalies.