Principal Engineer, Design Engineering (Hybrid)

Date Posted:

2025-04-17

Country:

United States of America

Location:

02: Building 02 Windsor Locks One Hamilton Road, Windsor Locks, CT, 06096 USA

Position Role Type:

Hybrid

U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements:

Security Clearance:

None/Not Required

We're hiring a Mechanical Design Engineer to join our Hydro-Mechanical, Actuation & Pneumatic Valve Design Group. In this role, you'll support product development, run tests, and create parts and designs while following key engineering and safety standards. 

The Hydro-Mechanical, Actuation & Pneumatic Valve Design Group is responsible for hydro-mechanical components, including jet fuel controls with functions such as flow division, fuel metering, pressure regulation, and high-pressure relief. The group also designs fuel-draulic actuators and pneumatic valves, including butterfly, in-line, and check valves. 

This position has a strong focus on development—taking detailed component requirements and performing all necessary analyses and specification reviews to generate physical components. During development, performance, weight, size, and cost are critical factors. Creative solutions are often required to meet competing requirements. 

The group also emphasizes advanced 3D analysis, including Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), to support the design of highly critical components. 

 

What You Will Do 

• Ensures novel ideas and implementations are captured and protected using applicable IP processes and tools. 

• Design major components or major portions of functional systems or technically advanced prototypes using computer design and engineering systems 

• Develops data and make layouts, sketches, and notes for components as well as facilitating manufacturing improvements 

• Investigates pertinent design factors such as ease of manufacture, availability of materials and equipment, interchangeability, replaceability, strength-weight efficiency, and contractual specification requirements and cost. 

• Perform 1-D hand calculation analysis and complex 3-D simulations to aid in analysis of performance requirements 

• Generate solid models of components using 3-D modeling software such as NX Unigraphics to aid in packaging and weight estimations 

• Develop, test, and verify new analysis methods where applicable to improve the state-of-the-art capability of Collins Aerospace 

• Create presentations to discuss, explain and document work completed 

• Complete Standard Work documentation 

• Develop in-house tools where applicable to improve the ease of performing analysis 

Qualifications You Must Have 

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years of experience 

• U.S. Person (U.S. citizen, permanent resident, or granted refugee or asylee status) as defined here: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-22/chapter-I/subchapter-M/part-120/subpart-C/section-120.62 

Qualifications We Prefer 

• Experience with classical mechanical design analysis, including spring design, beam equations, pressure vessels, fluid flow, and thermal conduction.