Principal Hardware Engineer Mechanical - 16262
Northrop GrummanAbout the role
Description
At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.The Defense Systems (DS) has an opening for a Principal Hardware Mechanical Engineer. This position is a required on-site position, located at our Defense Systems location in Colorado Springs, Colorado or Roy, UT.
This position will join the Sentinel Program's Command and Control (C2) Hardware Engineering team. This position will support a team of Hardware, Electrical, and Mechanical responsible engineers in the design of a diverse set of custom and commercial-off-the-shelf systems and components.
Responsibilities will include a mix of the following dependent on priorities and skillset:
- Incorporates edits and redlines to existing designs
- Facilitates ingest of supplier drawings into the Sentinel program tool set and workflow.
- Develops basic data and makes preliminary layouts, sketches, and notes necessary to present design proposal.
- 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. Coordinates with other organizations affected by design development.
- Makes layouts of complex assemblies and details parts of devices, mechanisms, and structures. Checks completed layouts and drawings for clarity, completeness, conformity to standards, procedures, specifications, and accuracy of calculations and dimensioning.
- Identifies design errors, omissions, and other deficiencies, and recommends revisions and/or improvements in design layout to responsible engineers or designers.
Basic Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) and with 5 years of experience; or Master's degree with 3 years of experience; PhD with 1 years of experience
• Must be a US Citizen with an active DoD Secret Clearance with an investigation date within the last 6 years
• U.S. Citizenship with the ability to obtain Special Program Access (SAP)
• Experience performing CAD modeling with design tools such as Siemens NX (or similar)
• Experience with Siemens Teamcenter PLM tool suite (or similar)
• Must be proficient with Microsoft Office Suite of tools - Project, PowerPoint, Excel, Word
• Experience working with COTS hardware and suppliers and ability to interpret supplier specifications to influence product selection for weapon system design
• Ability to understand and interpret requirements and architecture diagrams
Preferred Qualification:
• Must be able to work independently, function in a dynamic environment, and be flexible to changing direction
• Excellent interpersonal, written communication, and presentation skills, including the ability to clearly and succinctly communicate complex concepts
• Experience in analyzing and generating electronics-based system requirements and architectures to inform hardware design engineering primarily consisting of commercially sourced devices
• Experience as responsible engineer or design lead for electronic hardware product(s) during development phase of product lifecycle
• Experience in supplier collaboration and engagement for purposes of influencing and refining hardware design implementation to meet weapon system needs
• Proficient in 3D modelling performed in Siemens NX CAD environment
• Proficient in generation and release of engineering artifacts in Siemens Teamcenter Unified PLM Software application
• In-depth knowledge of engineering and modelling practices defined by ASME Y14 standards
• Familiarity with use of CAMEO software platform for analysis of system architecture models/diagrams
• Familiarity with use of IBM Rational DOORS for requirement development and review
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