Electro-Mech Project Lead Engineer-Sept23

Location

Midwest-0901

Position Id

EB-4492726082

Job Type

Full-Time Regular

Project Manager - Contract or Direct - 0901-IL-Sept23

OVERALL RESPONSIBILITIES

The Electro-Mechanical Engineering Project Lead is a challenging and critical position. This position will have a key role in our engineering and design team and test engineering efforts for a variety of aerospace electro-mechanical motion control products which includes Actuation and Systems, Power Drives and Sensors. Specific responsibilities related to the mechanical aspects of the product design including housings, gears, gear-sets, and gearboxes (i.e., Planetary, Spur, Differential, Bevel, Helical, etc.), Power Transmission Screws (i.e., Ball Screws, Acme Screws, Planetary roller screws, etc.), all types of bearings configurations, structural loads, fits/clearances, material selection, drawing checking, thermal analysis, product weight optimization, etc. With respect to the electrical scope of work it is expected that the successful candidate should understand motors (AC, Brush DC, and Brushless DC), commutation sensors (Hall Effect and Resolver), position sensing, velocity and load sensing devices, open and closed loop control systems, high frequency response servo applications, relays, switches, analog and digital control. The candidate should also understand pneumatic and hydraulic systems.

This role also requires strong project leadership skills. These elements of the position include leading the team of SolidWorks designers and detail drafters to achieve practical and cost-effective custom designs, delegating, and monitoring the assignments to the designers and drafters, providing feedback, and training the designers and drafter, interfacing with operations, suppliers, customers, and others to crisply delivery relevant information regarding detailed tasking and status. Maintaining on-time delivery of high quality, producible drawings and products is a key criterion. Detailed understanding of Manufacturing methods, assembly methods, cost to produce, cost reduction, product cost targeting, and DFMA are essential.

The ideal candidate will be a generalist with both analytical and intuitive skills that can delve deeper into all aspects of a design, work with customers to formulate their requirements and understand the implications within the application. The candidate will manage each application includes the full product life cycle (proposal, design, development, verification, and product support). The candidate will lead the design team and has the responsibility to ensure that designs meet program cost, schedule, and performance requirements. In addition, this candidate will manage our design workflow process and be the process owner of the Aerospace Product Development System (APDS).

SPECIFIC DUTIES

• Create Engineering inputs for conceptual trade studies and detailed proposal efforts.
• Create/Oversee the creation of detailed models and layouts/concepts for new applications.
• Create and perform product design, including checking review/approve detailed piece part drawings including but not limited to: Standards Compliance, Producibility, Tolerance Studies, Stress, Reliability, Material Selection and Thermal Studies.
• Create Reliability Studies, Fault Trees, FMECA's, System Safety and Hazard Assessment, etc.
• Act in the capacity of Mechanical Engineering technical liaison and support to manufacturing, assemblies, test equipment, suppliers, and customers.
• Define, design, and support elect-mechanical and mechanical test equipment for each product application.
• The candidate must also be hands on and willing to work in the shop environment to build prototypes and support production issues.
• Oversee the day-to-day activities and schedules for Outside Services related to Design, Drafting and Analysis. This includes Defining the scope of work and oversee the effort of ME technical specialists (Drafting, Materials Engineering, Stress Analysis, Dynamic Analysis, etc.).
• Ensure and validate compliance to all technical customer requirement.
• Create and strengthen our design standards, PDM Vault Administration and Aerospace Configuration Management Practices.
• Significantly high engagement with our customers.
• Assist in executing and creating certification plans and testing documentation such as ATP's, ATR's, QTP's, QTR's, V&V, Compliance Matrices, Etc.
• Drive efforts to achieve cost to produce targets, this includes cost reduction opportunities on existing programs.
• Further Develop, document, and modernize our current analysis tools.
• Creating a technical performance database of existing programs and proposals to maximize reuse of previously developed designs.
• Ensure new designs consider reuse of parts currently in inventory.

MIMINUM REQUIREMENTS

• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering or Equivalent Degree.
• Specifically, applicable experience of 10+ years.
• Aerospace Experience of 7+ years minimum.
• Demonstrated leadership skills through example, mentoring and running multifaceted design teams.

Specific capability in the following software:

• SolidWorks, SolidWorks Simulation and SolidWorks PDM.
• Microsoft Project
• Matlab Simulink (A plus)
• Labview (A plus)
• Relex (Windchill-A plus)
• ERP/MRP (A plus)
• Other Microsoft Products, including advanced knowledge of Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio
• Exceptional analytical and mathematical background.
• Excellent written and oral communications skills.
• Knowledge of Aerospace Military and FAA design requirements.
• Knowledge of manufacturing processes and methods.
• Knowledge of aerospace drafting standards.
• Knowledge of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) (ANSI Y14.5M).
• Knowledge of certification/qualification testing per DO-160 or MIL-STD-810.
• U.S. Citizen Only (No Dual Citizenship).

DESIRABLE EXPERIENCE & KNOWLEDGE

• Knowledge of SolidWorks Enterprise PDM is a plus.
• Knowledge of Space Environments is a plus.
• Knowledge of Land and Sea based systems is a plus.
• Knowledge of design for harsh environments is a plus.

POTENTIAL BACKGROUNDS

Small to mid-sized military, aerospace and space companies specializing in highly customized motion control products which operate in a low volume, high mix environment.

The candidate needs to be extremely versatile and able to multitask.

If you wish to be submitted please send an updated resume in Word format with your pay requirements and availability to varsha@keltia-design.com for either direct or contract preferences and we will follow up immediately

Keltia is a technical support services company based in the Seattle WA area for over 20 years providing engineering CAD design, CAD training and a broad range of technical recruiting services to customers in the Aerospace, Automotive, Medical Device and other engineering industries on a permanent and contractual basis. We opened our European office in Ireland in 2012 to provide similar services to our clients overseas locations

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