Principal Mechanical Engr Job Description
Principal mechanical engr
provides technical expertise in fabrication methodologies including extrusions, aluminum die castings, plastic injection molding, sheet metal, and finishing processes.
Principal Mechanical Engr Duties & Responsibilities
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Structural and dynamics modeling and analyses
Perform structural analysis to ensure the integrity of spaceflight and airborne instrument hardware, associated support hardware
Design test set-up and plan for thermal vacuum thermal balance testing, thermal cycling, and performance testing
Participate and eventually lead hardware development for refueling equipment and other equipment upgrades
Identify new applications and opportunities to improve existing products
Responsible for tooling development for mechanical parts and supporting the mechanical design and development activities associated with desktop and portable computer systems
Emphasis is on supporting development of complex, detailed, and accurate part and assembly tooling
Interfaces with suppliers, engineering, manufacturing, quality and other development groups to ensure the successful development and launch of new products
Meets routinely with suppliers to exchange information, participate in supplier selection, and influence supplier strategies
Supports design, analysis and testing of complex mechanical piece parts and assemblies
Principal Mechanical Engr Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Principal Mechanical Engr
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: PM, GD&T, ASME, EV, CAM
Education for Principal Mechanical Engr
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the principal mechanical engr job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Engineering, Science, Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, Physics, Math, Technical, Education, Applied Physics
Skills for Principal Mechanical Engr
Desired skills for principal mechanical engr include:
ProENGINEER modeling tool and Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerance
EVMS
CPI
SPI
Commercial CAD software
Microsoft Office
Related disciplines
Sheet metal fabrication
/ experience in:
BLDC motors
Desired experience for principal mechanical engr includes:
Understanding of cooling systems, high precision machining, heat exchanger design
Required – B.S
Must be able to obtain an SSBI security clearance
Already possess a SSBI security clearance
Welding, machining and fabrication experience
Experience with Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software for design use in a collaborative design environment
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of principal mechanical engr. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for principal mechanical engr
- Identifies and mitigates potential schedule, budget, or quality risks
- Leads and influences integration of mechanical and tooling strategy across technical disciplines both internally and externally
- Researches and integrates new technology into product portfolio and development plans
- Regularly provides direction, oversight and coaching to less experienced team members
- Drives consistency and thoroughness
- Viewed internally and externally as a technology and tools expert
- Develop initial analysis models and update/re-run existing models
- Contribute to technology development roadmaps
- Interface directly with Office of the Chief Engineer and Program Management Office
- Mechanical design of components in pulsed power and high power microwave systems
Qualifications for principal mechanical engr
- Bachelor's degree in Aerospace, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science or a degree in a related field
- Electromechanical or additional courses of study in EE, BS CS or robotics
- Experience with M/S Office Tools Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio
- Must be able to obtain a SSBI security clearance
- Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace or Mechanical Engineering or degree in a related field
- Thermal modeling using PATRAN, SINDA, ANSYS or equivalent software
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Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of principal mechanical engr. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for principal mechanical engr
- Monitor program technical execution, interfacing with stakeholders (e.g., customers, program offices, subcontractors, vendors)
- Review and provide feedback on analysis trades, work products and program reviews for members of your team
- Enable continued growth of all levels of personnel through knowledge transfer, training and exposure to the Mechanical Engineering community
- Ensure junior engineers have consistent access to senior engineers to review work and provide guidance
- Provide timely feedback to group members throughout the year, and ensure sufficient reviews are provided by peers and program leads during mid-term and end of year assessments
- Be responsible for requesting and obtaining needed software tools and licenses to enable efficient mechanical engineering work
- Lead the management of subcontractors required for the development of related equipment
- Collaborate and coordinate with a multi-disciplinary team of engineers, scientists, technicians, and support staff
- Participate in team meetings, design reviews, and engineering review boards
- Coordinate with team leadership (program management, chief engineer, sub-team leads) to execute program goals
Qualifications for principal mechanical engr
- Electronic Cooling
- Hand calculations based on fundamental equations
- Aerodynamic heating analyses
- Role will require product instrumentation, lab testing, error analysis, and data reduction
- Role will require the use of ProE for CAD
- Basic CFD analysis as required to achieve project goals
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Our company is looking for a principal mechanical engr. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for principal mechanical engr
- Providing SOW Team leadership – setting a strategic vision, establishing team goals, measuring and reporting team performance, leading continuous improvement initiatives, and managing indirect budgets
- Managing SOW Team personnel – recruiting talent, training employees, staffing and balancing workload, and coaching / assisting team members
- Being the custodian of SOW processes, tools, and enablers (including SOW Templates)
- Driving improvements in the subcontract SOW domain to align to business goals and strategic initiatives with a projected return on investment (ROI)
- Leading and maintaining the SOW Qualification Program, which enables candidates to achieve a recognized status of ‘Qualified SOW Specialist’ to ensure that competent SOW development resources are available to IDS, even beyond the SOW Team members
- Own, manage, maintain Technical Baseline control for all contracts
- Manage Engineering execution to cost, schedule, technical requirements
- Liaison with engineering organizations for acquiring the applicable skilled resources
- Provide technical guidance to Program Managers
- Provide technical advisory disposition for EXIM (Export/Import) compliance
Qualifications for principal mechanical engr
- Extensive understanding and experience in wide application of advanced principles, theories, concepts and techniques in structural and/or dynamics analysis resulting in contributions to the development of new theories and/or methods
- Coupled Thermal/Structural analysis
- Materials testing and interpretation of tests such as Low temperature strength testing or material thermal properties characterization
- Knowledgeable in fracture mechanics and statistical analytic methods for brittle materials
- Highlight working knowledge of cryogenic materials properties via published papers or programs actively engaged as a contributing analyst
- Will be required to present all analysis and critical findings in concise presentations to team members and management
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Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a principal mechanical engr. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for principal mechanical engr
- Mentor and lead CPT leads and junior engineers
- Work in coordination with the Program office to interact with customer and end-user representatives in developing system requirements
- Defining and establishing manufacturing processes that are cost effective and meet quality requirement
- Improving processes to increase productivity and competitiveness
- Close interaction with personnel responsible for NC programming, inspection equipment programming, machining, assembly, tool design and methodization
- Meeting cost & schedule commitments while maintaining high standards of quality
- Mentoring junior and mid-level career manufacturing engineers
- Leading DFSS/DMADV lean initiatives
- In partnership with customer management, lead the design of Mechanical Ground Support Equipment (MGSE)
- As part of the customer team, will act as the cognizant engineer to provide technical expertise and guidance to mechanical designers as they design mechanical ground support equipment
Qualifications for principal mechanical engr
- Ability to handle responsibilities with effective interpersonal skills
- Knowledge in engineering materials, mass production manufacturing processes and capabilities, tolerance analysis, CFD (Flotherm/IcePak), numerical and computational skills, CAD and FEA a plus
- Must have strong communication/presentation skills and some background in basic engineering design
- Play a key role in ensuring the final design meets the marketing requirements, quality and cost goals, and achieves world-class standards of reliability, manufacturability, EMI containment, and serviceability
- Conduct engineering tests to evaluate and verify the robustness and proper performance of new products Manage assigned development activities of external suppliers
- Must have an active DoD Secret Clearance, and US Citizen
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Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of principal mechanical engr. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for principal mechanical engr
- Will oversee build and fabrication of MGSE
- Will oversee all test activities
- Perform complex mechanical design, development, and documentation of components, sub-assemblies, and major end items for defense system equipment in accordance with system requirements
- Oversee mid to large sized cross functional engineering teams as a technical execution lead through all phases of development from proposal generation, program start up, requirements allocation, preliminary and detailed development, through production
- Support the factory and suppliers with product integration domestically and internationally
- Interface with other engineering disciplines, non-technical disciplines, and suppliers to develop design solutions and resolve technical challenges
- Work with limited supervision and meet commitments for assigned schedule, financial, and technical goals
- Manage and meet commitments for assigned schedule, financial, and technical goals
- Support and participate in design peer reviews and conduct trade studies to make sound technical decisions
- Apply knowledge and experience in technical problem solving and hardware development in a fast paced, team environment
Qualifications for principal mechanical engr
- A minimum of 8 years of experience as a hardware engineer on large radar programs
- Leadership experience in hardware engineering concepts and principles of standard engineering practices, methods, and techniques in support of medium to large engineering programs
- Ability to represent systems solutions to all levels of internal leadership and government customer representatives
- Experience in component engineering
- Ability to work independently and across engineering functions
- Ability to perform detailed engineering analysis, design, and solution development