Defense Design Engineer

POSITION DETAILS

Position Summary – Defense Screw Pump Design Engineer

The Design Engineer is the central point for engineering activity through the design and manufacture of screw pumps made to customer or internal specifications. In the defense organization, the design engineer is presented with unique operational requirements which ultimately ensure that US service men and women return from duty safely. This is accomplished by leveraging your technical skills to meet the technical challenges presented by our customers and their unique applications.

As a Design Engineer, you will collaborate with customers, sales teams, program manager, Quality, and manufacturing team members.  You will efficiently utilize computer-aided engineering (CAE) systems, material requirements planning (MRP) systems, Engineering standards, and other analysis tools to create bills of material (BOMs), design new products, and revise existing products.  You will also work closely with pump testing personnel to assess factory acceptance testing data, develop trends for similar pump types, and make data driven decisions on process improvements.

Principal Activities

• Creates CAE models, drawings, layouts, assembly instructions / visual guides, test specifications, BOMs and reports in support of customer orders, and finite element analyses.
• Completes drawing checks and tolerance stack-ups and drives the use and application of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T).
• Performs analysis of new design concepts, adapts concepts for success and produces analysis reports.  Performs design verification and validation of custom order projects.
• Supports the development of Engineering standards, design specifications, analysis methods, design verification and product validation methods, development plans and structures necessary for translating engineering knowledge into new product designs
• Initiates and contributes to the creation of installation and operation instructions, care and maintenance instructions, assembly, visual aids and other customer facing documentation.
• Looks for ways to improve robustness of designs to reduce lead times and/or extend service life of units.
• Strives to grow their technical expertise in the understanding and application of new methods, technological developments, advanced concepts, principles, and methods, as assigned. When needed develops or improves analysis methods, tools and programs.
• Interprets, organizes, executes and coordinates the timely completion of assignments.
• Performs Pre- and Post-sale customer support as required.

CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS

Knowledge Skills & Abilities

• Working knowledge of Solid Edge, Solid Works, or equivalent
• Working knowledge of IFS (MRP/ERP system) or similar.
• Experience with BOM structuring and modification
• Strong working knowledge of ASME Y14.5 GD&T
• Working knowledge in Engineering Change Request/Order/Notice
• Ability to work on cross-functional teams in the context of complex technical projects.
• Ability to serve as a project or team leader when required by the task or situation, while modelling appropriate positive influence and consensus building skills.
• Ability to create and present design, testing and other technical reports.
• Working knowledge of Lean as applied to both Engineering and Manufacturing processes including Six Sigma, Kaizen, DFMEA, PPAP, VA/VE, PFMEA, etc.
• Knowledge of foundry, machine shop and fabrication practices
• Ability to program using languages such as VB, MATLAB, etc is desirable.
• Ability to travel (10% Domestic & International). 

Education & Experience

• BS in Mechanical Engineering.
• 1-5 years of Engineering experience on industrial equipment (ideally fluids or rotating machinery related)

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