Mechanical Engineer

Required Skills \& Experience

• 3\+ years of experience in Mechanical Design Engineering in the aviation or aerospace industry

• Experience with thermal packaging and injection

• Experience owning the lifecycle of a project from concept to handoff

• 2\+ years of experience with GD\&T

Nice to Have Skills \& Experience

• Electrical Design and packaging

• Structural analysis with high vacuum, cryogenics, or opto-mechanics

• MIL-STD-810 and MIL-STD-461

• Tolerance stack methodology

Job Description

A top Space manufacturing company in the Mason, OH area is seeking a Mechanical Engineer to support their support of design, analysis, tolerancing, and testing of their opto-mechanical systems. Prepares design specifications, analysis and recommendations for presentation and approval. Analyzes mechanical requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints. Investigates solutions to product or process problems. Consolidates results of mechanical design elements for assigned projects. Conducts investigations involving the origination or modification of material, component or process specifications or requirements. They will perform product development activities including drawing creation and interpretation/implementation of customer specifications and documentation requirements. They will also be responsible for:

• design analysis and testing, both structural and thermal, to prove design will meet customer requirements

Generate and/or process engineering change orders (ECN’s) as required

Work directly with mechanical designers on CAD models and part documentation

Proficiennt development, review and approval of engineering documentation, including product specifications, drawings, assembly procedures, and test plans. Perform, guide or review various types of advanced engineering analyses to characterize and validate proposed designs.

Support the assembly, integration and test of the product or prototype hardware.

Provide technical leadership and design oversight in support of existing product lines and new development efforts by interacting cross-functionally with various engineering disciplines, operations, supply chain, program management, customer representatives and vendors.

Interface with mechanical design engineers, manufacturing process engineers and operations personnel to streamline, problem solve and continuously improve product designs.

Interaction with manufacturing to ensure successful prototype design hand-off and production transition including support of test plans, fixture designs and work instructions.

• Requirements development, coordination and tracking changes to Bill of Materials (BOM) and proper execution of design and analysis tasks in accordance with internal engineering processes and procedures.