Senior Staff Engineer – Rocket Motor Assembly, Integration

Responsibilities

• Lead D&A Preliminary Design Review Board and ensure robust, vetted designs.
• Conduct PEER reviews of components, motors, and vehicles as the Integration SME.
• Mentor and coordinate Integration SMEs across components to guarantee proper hand offs, validation, and certification.
• Lead igniter design and performance analysis for all programs.
• Develop and enforce D&A operating standards, including command media, checklists, and training.
• Lead the homeroom team responsible for igniter design, integration, and rocket motor assembly.
• Support mechanical and integration design for Commercial, Strategic, NASA, and IR&D projects.
• Author test requirements, plans, reports, and perform tolerance and trade off analyses.
• Draft requirement specifications and verification reports.
• Lead hardware design, configuration drawing, and model release for three new programs from concept through production, presenting at all milestone reviews.
• Lead failure evaluation efforts on three products/processes, documenting findings and implementing corrective actions.
• Lead static test motor or component testing on three occasions, producing test plans, supporting the test, conducting post fire assessments, and authoring test reports.
• Produce at least five Design Analysis Reports (DARs), structural and tolerance analyses, trade studies, and verification documentation; create interface artifacts (IICDs, ICDs, N² matrices) for five programs.
• Establish and disseminate five new command media topics that capture best practices and lessons learned for hardware design and analysis.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace or Mechanical Engineering with 14 years of professional experience – OR – Master’s degree with 12 years of professional experience – OR – PhD with 10 years of professional experience.
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance.
• Strong understanding of solid rocket motor design, manufacture, and test.
• Advanced degree (MS, ME) is preferred.
• Proficiency with Siemens NX modeling.
• Strong background in integration design, and structural analysis.
• Experience designing mechanical brackets and leading multidisciplinary teams.
• Knowledge of ballistics, grain design analysis, loads, and environmental analysis.
• Knowledge of manufacturing processes and GD&T tolerance analysis.
• Excellent written/oral communication, time management, and organizational abilities.