Systems Engineer III

Crane Aerospace and Electronics – Lynnwood, WA

Crane Aerospace and Electronics supplies critical systems and components to the aerospace and defense markets. Our products are rugged and innovative, used in engines, landing gear, satellites, medical implants, missiles, unmanned aerial systems, and more. Located in the epicenter of United States aviation manufacturing, the Lynnwood, WA facility delivers industry‑leading power, sensing, and fluid solutions. Join a team committed to engineering excellence.

Crane Aerospace & Electronics supplies critical systems and components to the aerospace and defense markets. You’ll find Crane Aerospace & Electronics in some of the toughest environments: from engines to landing gear; from satellites to medical implants and from missiles to unmanned aerial systems (UAS). Located in the epicenter of United States aviation manufacturing, our Crane Aerospace & Electronics Lynnwood, Wash.,

facility delivers industry‑leading aerospace & defense power, sensing and fluid solutions. Our products are rugged enough to fly 5 billion miles from Earth on NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft and innovative enough to be featured on Advanced Air Mobility demonstrators. You’ll join a group of aerospace professionals committed to engineering excellence and work in a community tucked between the idyllic Puget Sound and Cascade Mountains.

The Systems Engineer III works with minimal supervision and uses originality, ingenuity, and established procedures to perform engineering duties in researching, planning, designing, and developing products for use in the aerospace or electronics marketplace. The Engineer III works on new product designs, modernization, and upgrades, as well as performs extensive analyses to ensure cost, quality, and customer requirements. The Systems Engineer III also uses computer‑assisted engineering and design software and equipment to perform daily assignments, applying principles of science and mathematics to develop economical solutions to technical problems.

• Work effectively with all functional groups to achieve product performance and cost targets. Build quality and manufacturability into the design. Define/understand/comply with company and regulatory guidelines to assure a safe operating environment.
• Support continuous process improvement activities including Kaizen, 5S practices to ensure an organized and efficient working environment, and personal development.
• Demonstrate proficiency with verbal and written English for technical reports, presentations, analyses, or other communications at the appropriate level throughout the organization.
• Understand, decompose, and define product and process requirements to support product development, sustaining and R&D.
• Plan, estimate, prioritize, and manage work activities to support meeting project schedules and budgets.
• Utilize experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Produce thorough and accurate design and development work of suitable complexity that meets all customer specifications and company requirements for schedule, cost, producibility, quality, and reliability.
• Utilize proficient problem solving processes, documentation, tools and analyses to quickly and effectively identify root cause and corrective actions to technical challenges and/or issue in support of product development and product sustaining assignments.
• Generate and review product development documentation including proposals, technical reports, procedures, correspondence, etc. necessary to satisfy customer and program requirements.
• Self‑directed and motivated while working and communicating effectively within a team environment that consists of several engineering, operations, quality, and business disciplines.
• Provide support of IPT activities in collaboration with other technical, operations, quality, and business disciplines.
• Contribute to all Systems Engineering aspects (architecture and components) from initial product research, architecture definition, requirements definition, requirements validation, systems verification, management and flow down to functional engineering groups.
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