Senior Mechanical Engineer (Hybrid)

Date Posted:

2024-06-19

Country:

United States of America

Location:

01: Building 01 Windsor Locks One Hamilton Road, Windsor Locks, CT, 06096 USA

Position Role Type:

Hybrid

Collins Aerospace is looking to fill a Senior Mechanical Design Engineering position within the hydro-mechanical, actuation & pneumatic valve design group. You will participate in product development activities, executes tests, and produces parts, designs, or sketches, following all appropriate Mechanical Engineering design, safety, and qualification standards.

The hydro-mechanical, actuation & pneumatic valve design group is responsible for hydro-mechanical components including jet fuel controls with functions of flow division, fuel metering, pressure regulating and high-pressure relief, as well as fuel-draulic actuators and pneumatic valves including butterfly, in-line and check valves.  This position has a heavy focus on development, taking detailed component requirements and performing all analysis and specification reviews required to generate physical components. While developing these components performance, weight, envelope, and cost are critical and creative solutions to requirement competing requirements are often needed. This group has an added focus on complex 3D analysis including Finite Element Analysis and Computational Fluid Dynamics to aid in the design of the most 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 makes 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, replace ability, 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

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

• Directs the work of employees assigned on projects in technical manufacturing and administrative areas.

• Establishes design concepts, criteria and engineering efforts for product research, development, integration, and test.

• Meets program schedules and budgets and maintains the integrated master schedules for project(s).

Qualifications You Must Have

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) unless prohibited by local laws/regulations and minimum 5 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 3 years of experience or in absence of a degree, 9 years of relevant experience.

• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract.

Qualifications We Prefer

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

• Ansys Workbench (or similar) FEA, and Siemens Star-CCM+ (or similar) CFD experience

• Microsoft Office Suite experience, primarily excel

• Coding (VBA, Python, or similar) experience

• Knowledge of GD&T basics

• Working knowledge of gas turbine engine systems

What We Offer

• Benefits

Some of our competitive benefits package includes:   

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance  

• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees  

• Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option  

• Tuition reimbursement program 

• Student Loan Repayment Program  

• Life insurance and disability coverage  

• Optional coverages you can buy pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection 

• Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits 

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