Senior Principal Mechanical Engineer

3 days ago


Huntsville, United States BlueHalo Full time

BlueHalo is looking for a Senior Principal Mechanical Engineer to join the Kinetic Interceptor team. The Senior Principal Mechanical Engineering role will work across a broad range of disciplines with an emphasis on product development, analysis and testing, and system integration. Responsibilities include mechanical design, technology research, interface definition, trade studies including component selection, CAD modeling and documentation, planning required tasks, leading and mentoring a diverse team, and leading integration efforts to support milestone reviews. 

You’d Like to Do This

  • Ensure technical integrity and engineering execution across the IPT and other functions to meet and/or exceed cost, schedule, and technical requirements
  • Represent BlueHalo and program interests with senior customer counterparts, internal senior program management and engineering leadership
  • Technically engage with major subcontractors and partners to ensure product deliverables
  • Direct and lead a diverse team of multi-disciplined engineers in support of missile development
  • Provide mentoring, guidance and direction to junior engineers from conceptual design through release of technical data package
  • Design, test, and/or integration of mechanical components, mechanical ground support equipment (EGSE), subsystems, or system-of-systems
  • Lead internal design reviews, and support major customer reviews
  • Assist with program schedule creation and hardware development planning
  • Develop engineering labor and material estimates
  • Provide mentoring, guidance and direction to junior engineers from conceptual design through release of technical data package
  • Ensure established configuration management processes are followed
  • Perform subsystem requirements generation, interface definition, solid modeling and detailed design of components and subsystems
  • Assist with program schedule creation and hardware development planning
  • Support manufacturing engineers in the development of factory layouts, product workflow planning and material handling equipment selection and design

Qualifications:

  • You must be a US citizen
  • Have a B.S. with 15+ years of prior relevant experience in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related disciplines
  • You must have a Secret level security clearance.  If you do not have a Secret level security clearance, you must be willing & able to obtain an Interim Secret level security clearance prior to your start date.
  • Prior experience with leading and conducting missile trade studies, missile system development and design, missile systems requirements development and management, and missile system integration and test
  • Experience leading and executing the design and development of complex system architectures
  • Demonstrated experience across the product lifecycle, including concept development, architecture, design, integration, verification, and production
  • Experience in strategic development, customer interface, or contract capture in the Defense Industry
  • Demonstrated experience interacting with and influencing Department of Defense (DoD), and/or commercial and non-traditional customer sets
  • Experience developing effective internal and external customer relationships to ensure customer satisfaction and continued business
  • Experience managing resources with multi-million-dollar annual budgets
  • Direct experience with Engineering Risks and Opportunities (R&O) Management
  • Understanding and application of industry electrical engineering technical standards; demonstrated mechanical component design experience
  • Experience with classified test systems or systems subject to cyber security policies and risk management framework (RMF) engineering technical standards
  • Multi-year experience in solid modeling (Creo preferred)
  • Experience implementing and interpreting geometric dimensioning and tolerancing
  • Experience with environmental testing, i.e., shock, vibration, temperature/altitude, environmental stress screening (ESS)
  • Capable of performing in a fast paced, dynamic environment
  • Experience using Windchill for product data management
  • Are willing and able to travel occasionally to attend meetings or tests at other government and contractor sites.
  • Comfortable working in classified facilities
  • Excellent people skills to include communication and collaborating in a multi-disciplinary cross functional team environments

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Have a M.S. in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related discipline
  • Have design experience with missiles and related subsystems
  • Prior missile airframe design experience, with emphasis on balancing system level size, weight, and power
  • Have familiarity with flight vehicle physics and dynamics
  • Proficiency in TDP release processes and maintenance using Windchill
  • Knowledge of manufacturing and manufacturing processes desired
  • Design verification test planning and fixture design or field-testing experience


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