Lead, Space Vehicle Mechanical Systems Engineer
Company: L3Harris Technologies
Location: Fort Wayne
Posted on: October 22, 2024
Job Description:
-Job Title: - Lead, Space Vehicle Mechanical Systems EngineerJob
Code: - 17058Job Location: Remote or Palm Bay, FL or Rochester, NY
or Ft. Wayne, IN or Colorado Springs, CO or San Diego, CAJob
Description: L3Harris' Space and Airborne Systems seeks a Space
Vehicle (SV) Mechanical Systems Engineer (MSE) to join our growing
team. The individual in this role will act as the primary
mechanical systems engineer responsible for mechanical integration
of the spacecraft bus, mission payload, and communication payload
to ensure seamless end-to-end mission performance. The MSE has
overall technical responsibility for the mechanical design,
development, integration, and test for the Space Vehicle and serves
as the primary software point of contact for external segments,
test and operations. The MSE will coordinate and/or perform test
and analysis integration activities to ensure the system meets
Customer and Mission requirements. The MSE will coordinate all
mechanical technical efforts to generate contractually required
system design documents and design review technical packages. -
-Essential Functions: -
- Manages and maintains the mechanical integration of the
spacecraft bus, mission payload and communications payload
according to internal and external ICDs
- Generation and coordination of mechanical design specifications
and interface (internal and external) documents including
requirements derivation, allocation, and flow up/down, and V&V
activities
- Extracts mechanical and environmental requirements from
mission-level and CONOPs, and cascades them to the spacecraft bus,
mission payload, and communications payload, encompassing
allocations into software, firmware, and hardware, as well as test
beds and simulators.
- Ensures mechanical functional and physical allocations, changes
and requirements compliance are being addressed throughout the SV
design.
- Coordinates and/or completes mechanical integration activities
such as mass properties management, propulsion and mass budgets,
critical clearances, structural, thermal, Field of View, slosh, and
coupled loads analyses and test, mechanical ground support
equipment (MGSE) integration, cable harness routing, and
configuration control.
- Supports the SEIT organization in planning the mechanical
integration testing of HW/SW from the subsystem level to the SV
level, including execution of SV level tests and troubleshooting
issues
- Maintains cognizance and communicates changes of the SV
subcontractor and in-house mechanical design baselines, pinouts,
size and weight, and interfaces
- Support to the system modeling teams in generation of Cameo
system views and simulations as well as ConOps generation
- Works closely with Software, Mechanical, and Integration and
Test Systems Engineers to own and oversees End-to-End integration
of spacecraft bus, mission payload, and communications payload
across the full program lifecycle
- Represent Space Vehicle mechanical engineering during major
system level design reviews such as SRR, SDR, PDR and CDR and
milestone reviews such as MRR, TRR, PSF, LRR and MDR
- Leads or participates in failure review boards, engineering
review boards, change control boards to ensure mechanical impacts
are coordinated across the SV
- Creating and/or supporting delivery of Customer CDRLS
- Ability to lead diverse technical teams across internal and
subcontractor efforts
- 25% travel as requiredQualifications: -
- Bachelor's Degree and minimum 9 years of prior relevant
experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior
related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of
prior related experience.
- Bachelor's Degree in -Mechanical Engineering, Systems
Engineering, or adjacent field.
- Active TS/SCI security clearance. -
- Experience with mechanical integration of spacecraft busses,
mission payloads, and communications payloads for seamless
end-to-end mission performance.
- Experience with leading both internal and external supplier
mechanical engineering teams.
- Experience with mechanical integration, testing, and
troubleshooting of complex systems.Preferred Additional
Skills:
- Well versed in fleshing out or coordinating physical and
functional mechanical interface details such as connectors pinouts
and cable routing, mounting, seals, docking, dispenser, solar array
and deployment mechanisms, payload attach points, thruster
locations, and thermal control
- Experienced with mechanical requirements validation, sell-off,
milestone entry/exit criteria
- Experienced with mechanical integration planning when there are
multiple HW solutions from both internal and external
suppliers
- Experience with writing Statement of Works for external and
internal suppliers
- Familiarity with mechanical engineering structural and thermal
processes
- Familiarity with Digital Engineering and MBSE tools such as
CAD, DOORs, CAMEO, CREO, JIRA
- Ability to make risk-based decisions balancing technical, cost
and schedule
- Strong track record of leading integration and test engineering
teams through all phases of a space program; pursuits and proposal,
design and development, integration and test, and operations
- Experience in mentoring and growing technical staff
- Ability to perform or coordinate Space Vehicle level mechanical
analyses and trades such as pin outs, mass and propellant budgets,
structural, thermal, vibration and shock, modal, and mass
properties analyses and test, sensor sizing, and hardware
placementIn compliance with pay transparency requirements, the
salary range for this role is $106,500 - $197,500. This is not a
guarantee of compensation or salary, as final offer amount may vary
based on factors including but not limited to experience and
geographic location. L3Harris also offers a variety of benefits,
including health and disability insurance, 401(k) match, flexible
spending accounts, EAP, education assistance, parental leave, paid
time off, and company-paid holidays. The specific programs and
options available to an employee may vary depending on date of
hire, schedule type, and the applicability of collective bargaining
agreements. The application window for this requisition is
anticipated to close January 31, 2025. - - -
Keywords: L3Harris Technologies, Noblesville , Lead, Space Vehicle Mechanical Systems Engineer, Other , Fort Wayne, Indiana
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