Cleared Mechanical Engineer - Cargo Restraint Design, Onsite

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Sandia National Laboratories is the nation’s premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation, with teams of specialists focused on cutting-edge work in a broad array of areas. Some of the main reasons we love our jobs:

• Challenging work with amazing impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide
• Extraordinary co-workers
• Some of the best tools, equipment, and research facilities in the world
• Career advancement and enrichment opportunities
• Flexible work arrangements for many positions include 9/80 (work 80 hours every two weeks, with every other Friday off) and 4/10 (work 4 ten-hour days each week) compressed workweeks, part-time work, and telecommuting (a mix of onsite work and working from home)
• Generous vacations, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance*

We are seeking a highly driven R&D Mechanical Engineer to join dynamic team to support cargo restraint design for high-security assets in the Transportation Safeguards and Surety Program! This work will involve the development, analysis, realization, and integration of cargo restraints and tie-downs for transporting some of our nation’s most critical assets.

On any given day, you may be called on to:

• Use engineering principles and CAD tools to research, design, or develop complex hardware sets to demonstrate / validate cargo securement methodologies and designs.
• Troubleshoot existing tie-down schema to resolve technical or requirement deficiencies and evaluate and update as necessary.
• Conceptualize, design, analyze, and manage product realization of new tie-down schema for the next generation of cargo fixtures, restraints, and tie-down for transportation.
• Engage, interface, and team with subject-matter experts and members of the complex to ensure the success of the transportation mission.
• Initiate, design, develop, implement, and evaluate new processes, products, or systems through basic and applied research.
• Present concepts, designs, test data, analysis results, and status to management and team members.
• Provide consultation for one-off and hazardous shipping configurations
• Learn and provide historical context for how and why certain schema and hardware are used
• Collaborate with internal and external customers
• Collaborate with various systems organizations to provide cargo securement technical support for test and evaluation.
• Provide on-site or remote support to responding agencies in the event of a secure transportation event.

Travel as required, for training or to support project efforts.

Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite.

$102,400 - $199,700

• Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate's experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline, or an equivalent combination of directly relevant education and engineering or scientific experience that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform independent research and development.
• Active DOE Q clearance or equivalent

The ideal R&D S&E Mechanical Engineering candidate for Sandia National Laboratories will in addition possess the following:

• Graduate degree in Mechanical Engineering or a highly related field where an independent research project was a graduation requirement (e.g., independent project, thesis, or dissertation).
• Experience with mechanical engineering and product realization in the NNSA complex.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams.

Also, for this posting we are seeking individuals with the following experience:

• Producing mechanical designs, models, product definition of complex objects.
• Creo and Solidworks.
• Finite element analysis tools.
• Realizing designs through production.
• PDMLink (Windchill) tools in creating mechanical product design definition to include 3D solid…