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Mechanical Engineer - Auxiliary Systems

Softworld Inc

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Confidential
Early Career (2+ yrs experience)
Up to $30 per hour
No Traveling
Unspecified
Engineering - Mechanical
Sterling Heights, MI (On/Off-Site)

Job Title: Mechanical Engineer - Auxiliary Systems

Job Location: Sterling Heights Michigan 48310

Onsite Requirements:

* Mechanical Engineering
* CAD
* Creo


Job Description:

* This role will be in our Auxiliary Systems Mechanical Engineering area, under the guidance of a senior engineer, will help design and release mechanical and fluid components and subsystems for military ground vehicles.
* This includes the application of engineering principles to generate designs to solve complex problems and provide support for the build, test, and production of the designs.
* The system level areas of focus may include hydraulic actuation and pneumatics, automatic fire suppression, fuel, camera cleaning, LRU cooling distribution, winch and fairlead.
* Other possible assignments for general mechanical may include shock/vibration isolation and mounting of devices, stowage equipment integration, seating and crew accommodations, battery enclosures, and driver controls.

Responsibilities:

* Mechanical & Auxiliary design engineering of fluid and distributed systems including fuel, automatic fire suppression, camera cleaning, LRU cooling, and hydraulic and pneumatics to meet customer requirements and specifications.
* Will help develop and integrate components into vehicle platforms to meet vehicle performance requirements including human factors, safety, environmental, ballistic and mine blast requirements.
* Will help and conduct design, integration and analysis of mechanical components, mechanisms, and shock attenuation systems for mounting devices.
* Will apply the mechanics of materials, material selection, welding, and fabrication principles for mechanical components and complex welded brackets, mounting provisions.
* Will help support various projects by performing analysis & design, drawing/model mark-ups, tolerance stacks along with generating source data for engineering changes.
* Responsible for writing material requests and shop work requests, track delivery and stock of parts, participate in integration reviews, fit checks, and author reports.
* Provides support to prototype, production, and sustainment vehicle efforts and follow-up, technical corrective action formulation, troubleshooting and redesign activities.
* Present design concepts and program status to functional and program management in a clear, concise manner and in the context of risk management.
* Involved with conducting failure analysis, produce required corrective action, and troubleshoot and redesign activities and necessary.
* Works with the customer on their needs for the vehicle, formulate the subsystem and component requirements and meet contract expectations.
* Will be involved with technical presentations to other engineering groups, the customer and/or leadership.
* May work with different engineering functions of the organization on various programs.
* Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

* Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Mechatronics Engineering.
* Will consider degree in Electrical Engineering with experience and desire to work Mechanical systems.
* 1-3 years' experience in an Engineering role required.
* Focus on Fluid or Distributed Systems is a plus.
* Classes or exposure to materials and material selection when it comes to welding and fabrication a plus.
* Demonstrated understanding of mechanical engineering principles.
* Experience supporting prototype and/or production build activities.
* Demonstrated experience developing fluid system functional architecture, schematics, and analytical models and troubleshooting.
* Experience with root cause and corrective activities.
* Experience using NX and/or Creo desired.
* Experience with Teamcenter and Vis Mockup a plus.
* Must be Microsoft Suite proficient and able to work in PowerPoint on presentations as needed.
* Ability to travel up to 20% to other facilities and military installations if needed.



* **This client is a US Federal Government contractor and is legally required to hire US Citizens. US Citizens will only be considered for this role**
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