WMD Mechanical Engineer

4 days ago

Reston, Virginia, United States Applied Research Associates Full time
Job Title: WMD Mechanical Engineer

We are seeking a highly skilled WMD Mechanical Engineer to join our team at Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA). As a key member of our Counter-WMD Analysis Cell (CWAC), you will play a critical role in conducting technical analyses of foreign, WMD-related industrial facilities, processes, and equipment.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Identify and characterize critical design elements of WMD-related facilities, processes, and equipment.
  • Integrate an understanding of mechanical systems with industrial production processes to identify design flaws, capability limits, and potential failure mechanisms.
  • Support exercises that test and/or demonstrate new technologies, methodologies, and analytical tools that are under development.
  • Produce clearly written technical analyses and briefings at levels comprehensible to an audience ranging anywhere from the layperson to senior-level government representatives, to subject matter experts.
  • Share expertise with junior counterparts.
Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent degree.
  • 7+ years of experience solving mechanical engineering problems.
  • Practical mechanical systems knowledge gained through design, construction, or facilities management work experience.
  • Demonstrated ability to work effectively within or lead a team of peers, as well as excellent interpersonal and communications skills.
  • Willingness and ability to learn and grow into new areas of technical expertise outside of one's original field.
  • Expert knowledge and use of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
  • An active TOP SECRET/SCI clearance and ability to pass a Counter-Intelligence polygraph is required.
Preferred Skills:
  • Master's degree in Engineering or Physics.
  • Direct experience supporting reverse engineering, threat analysis, and vulnerability/survivability assessments of WMD-related facilities, processes, and infrastructure (to include underground facilities).
  • Research and Development of new tools and methodologies to understand and reverse engineer processes and support systems at remote WMD-related facilities.
  • Modeling and simulation expertise with weaponeering and engineering analysis tools or similar.
  • Military or defense-related experience and an understanding of operational planning and functional defeat of hard targets and underground facilities.
  • Working knowledge of engineering, 3D modeling, and geospatial analytical tools to include AutoCAD, ArcGIS, MatLab, SketchUp, Skyline Software, RemoteView, etc.
About ARA:

Applied Research Associates, Inc. is an employee-owned international research and engineering company recognized for providing technically superior solutions to complex and challenging problems in the physical sciences.

The company, founded in Albuquerque, NM, in 1979, currently employs over 1200 professionals.

ARA offices throughout the United States and Canada provide a broad range of technical expertise in defense technologies, civil technologies, computer software and simulation, systems analysis, environmental technologies, and testing and measurement.

The corporation also provides sophisticated technical products for environmental site characterization, pavement analysis, and robotics.

At ARA, employees are our greatest assets. The corporation realizes that employee ownership generates greater creativity and initiative along with higher performance and customer satisfaction levels.

ARA gives its employees the tools, training, and opportunities to take more active roles as owners.

The culture is challenging; innovation and experimentation are the norm.

Employees are eligible for contributions which not only add to the company's success, but also their own through the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).

The motto, "Engineering and Science for Fun and Profit" sums up the ARA experience.

For additional information and an opportunity to join this unique workplace, please visit our website.

Please apply for the WMD Mechanical Engineer position.

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