Sr Engineer, Mechanical

Date Posted:

2025-11-17

Country:

United States of America

Location:

HFL33: US049-Medley, FL 9100 NW 105 Circle , Medley, FL, 33178 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

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

U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access certain necessary systems.

Security Clearance:

None/Not Required

We are hiring for a Sr. Mechanical Design Engineer in our Executive Aircraft Seating team. The candidate will be responsible for designing major components or major portions of functional systems, technically advanced prototypes, and promotional or specific products using computer design and engineering systems. Developing or improving products and facilitates manufacturing operations. Developing data and makes layouts, sketches, and notes for design proposals. Investigate 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. Designs, develops and tests metallic or non-metallic structures or materials and their related fabrication processes for use in engineering designs.

What you will do:

• Design ownership of product life-cycle including initial concept through production and product support.

• Design mechanical components and assemblies with an emphasis on manufacturability, reliability and maintainability.

• Perform engineering calculations to determine the size and strength of components.

• Solve design problems and check computations contributing to analytical designs.

• Prepare, modify and release drawings created in CAD (Siemens NX) to verify fit, form and function of mechanical designs.

• Verify structural acceptability of designs by testing prototypes for reliability and FAA certification through dynamic crash testing.

• Utilize engineering tools such as FMEAs, FEA and DFMA to validate design content.

• Evaluate materials and parts for use in new designs including communicating with current and new suppliers.

• Operate in a team environment with other functional areas providing input to design solutions and participate in design reviews.

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 of prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field or in absence of a degree, 9 years of relevant experience

• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship now or in the future. RTX will not offer sponsorship for this position

Qualifications we prefer:

• Prior experience in the design of mechanical systems for aircraft seating products

• Experience in design using Siemens NX or other 3D CAD software

• Experience working with Teamcenter or other Product Data Manager (PDM) Tools

• Experience working with Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA) principles.

• Familiarity with FAA requirements a plus.

• Collins Aerospace, an RTX company, is a leader in technologically advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defense industry. Collins Aerospace has the capabilities, comprehensive portfolio, and expertise to solve customers’ toughest challenges and to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving global market.

Do you want to be a part of something bigger? A team whose impact stretches across the world, and even beyond? At Collins Aerospace, our Mission Systems team helps civilian, military and government customers complete their most complex missions — whatever and wherever they may be. Our customers depend on us for intelligent and secure communications, missionized systems for specialized aircraft and spacecraft and collaborative space solutions. By joining our team, you’ll have your own critical part to play in ensuring our customer succeeds today while anticipating their needs for tomorrow. Are you up for the challenge? Join our mission today.

* Please consider the following role type definition as you apply for this role.

Onsite: Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite. This includes all production and maintenance employees, as they are essential to the development of our products.

Regardless of your role type, collaboration and innovation are critical to our business and all employees will have access to digital tools so they can work with colleagues around the world – and access to Collins s