R&D Engineer II; SRM Ballistician; Remote

Position: R&D Engineer II (SRM Ballistician) (Remote Option Available)
Location: Hampton

Company Overview

General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems (OTS) is a global leader in the design, engineering and production of munitions, energetics, weapons, armaments, and missile subsystems around the world. OTS empowers the U.S. military and its allies with an extensive range of overarching product segments applied across all levels of strategic and tactical operations, providing a cutting-edge advantage to our warfighters. Our Ethos of Honesty, Trust, Transparency, and Alignment, are the guiding principles that form the foundation of everything we do.

Integrity is paramount, innovation fuels our passion, customer satisfaction is at the core of our mission, and collaboration is key to our success - fostering a culture of teamwork and mutual respect among employees, partners, and stakeholders. Whether you're just starting out on your career journey or are an experienced professional, we offer a robust total rewards package that goes above and beyond with compensation;

healthcare, wellness, retirement, and work/life benefits that include career development and recognition programs. If who we are and what we do resonates with you, we invite you to join our high-performance team!

Job Summary

We are currently seeking a Ballistician to join our growing Solid Rocket Motor Engineering Team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for generating rocket motor concepts from high level thrust/burn time requirements, and refining into detailed grain and nozzle designs. The job requires collaboration to define propellant grain geometries and optimize burn rates, thrust curves, and pressure profiles. The candidate will work with design engineers to communicate operating pressures, analysts to communicate temperature and load profiles, chemists to communicate ballistic requirements, and manufacturing engineers to ensure grain geometry can be produced.

* This is a full-time position with a 9/80 schedule. This position can be remote or at our Huntsville, AL or Hampton, AR facility.

Impact of the Role

General Profile

* Requires working knowledge and experience in own job discipline and broadens capabilities

* Continues to build knowledge of the company, processes and customers

* Performs a range of assignments related to job discipline

* Uses prescribed guidelines or policies in analyzing situations

* Receives a moderate level of guidance and direction

* Consistent exercise of discretion & judgment

Essential Functions

* Conducts research, design, and development activities with the goal of developing new or improved products, processes, or services.

* Collaborates with internal manufacturing partners, contract manufacturers, designers and product specialists to optimize designs for manufacturability.

* Applies research theories, principles, and models when conducting experiments and research activities.

* Conducts market research, tracks projects, builds spreadsheets evaluating trade space, designs presentation slides, and executes business-oriented tasks.

* Summarizes research results and communicates findings to internal and external bodies.

* Assesses the scope of research projects and ensures projects are on time and within budget.

* Develops technical documentation for all projects.

* Utilizes CAD (Computer Aided Design) or CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) systems to model new designs and produce detailed engineering drawings.

Required Qualifications

* Required education and experience:
Associate's Degree and 2-4 years' experience

* Discipline/Major:
Engineering degree required

* Critical professional related technical skills; computer skills:
Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)

Preferred Qualifications

* Preferred education and experience:
Bachelor's Degree

* Knowledge, skills & abilities:
Product innovation. Product intelligence. Product research. Project scoping. Quantitative research. Research and development. Research documentation. Oral and written communication skills. Critical thinking. Analytical thinking.

Additional Responsibilities:
Develop:
Create rocket motor concepts to meet customer requirements. Design and Analysis:
Refine grain geometries and optimize burn rates, thrust and pressure curves in collaboration with other stakeholders Testing &

Qualification:

Lead static fire test campaigns and ground-based prototyping. Analyze test data to validate performance and investigate any anomalies. Data Reduction:
Reduce strand burner, subscale and fullscale motor data to determine burn rate properties of propellants Manufacturing Oversight:
Oversee propellant casting, curing cycles, and review of tool designs.

Physical Requirements

* Must be able to remain in a stationary position at a desk and/or computer for extended periods of time.

* Requires regular movement throughout GD-OTS facilities.

* Work primarily in a climate-controlled environment with minimal safety/health hazard potential.

Travel Requirements Up to 25% travel likely. Pay Range (USD)$82,400-$111,500 Pay Transparency Statement The salary range…