Senior Engineer, Mechanical; Commercial Space Systems

Senior Engineer, Mechanical (Commercial Space Systems)

Position:
Senior Engineer, Mechanical (Commercial Space Systems)

Location:

Parsippany, NJ

Job :

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The Senior Mechanical Engineer in the Project Engineering group works on designing new pneumatic, hydraulic, and electro‑mechanical products for various Aerospace customers/platforms, including, but not limited to, reusable commercial launch vehicles, deep space missions, military aircrafts, and hypersonic missiles.

The Senior Mechanical Engineer is responsible for work product to meet the customer's requirements (including all design, functional, material, and test requirements from the customer's component and sub‑tier specifications) as well as the cost targets established during the proposal stage. The Sr. Engineer shall enlist the help of other disciplines when necessary, such as manufacturing, other engineering disciplines, and QA.

This role is responsible for assigned engineering activities, either of a development or sales order nature, including definition, plans, analysis, test definition and review, results, manufacturing coordination, schedules, budgets and reporting. This description covers mechanical design engineers.

• Review and assess compliance with the customer's component specifications and sub‑level specifications.
• Coordinate with other disciplines outside engineering as required.
• Record in writing, and distribute to the Contracts Administrator and Program Manager, for transmission to the customer, when applicable.
• Perform or oversee the design and performance of product design components or major assemblies or system in accordance with the customer requirements, including design of electronics mechanical packaging for high‑reliability environments and design analysis such as control system, component stress, thermal and component tolerance analysis, thermal and mechanical stress where applicable.
• Coordinate the creation of a preliminary bill of material in the business system and verify its accuracy.
• Create development testing requirements, development test instructions, and release of drawings for development hardware and supporting test equipment.
• Provide detailed requirement outlines to Documentation Control for creation of Test Procedures (DVT, ATP, QTP), Verification Matrix to the specifications, Materials list, and Analysis Reports.
• Maintain ongoing surveillance of customer‑driven changes, with written notification to Contracts Administrator or Program Manager, including program impact assessment.
• Provide engineering support (analysis/design/specifications) of other departments/subcontractors/suppliers working on the program.
• Provide technical and priority direction to designers/drafters.
• Ensure accuracy of all drawings/documents on the project, except purely drafting technique issues. This includes tolerance stack‑ups.
• Take responsibility for NCR activities as well as MRB authority to disposition discrepant hardware (Following QA Training).
• Determine and prepare PDR/CDR technical and technical schedule items.
• Assist the Engineering Manager / Director, or Program Manager in determining the needed resources and priorities for a project.
• Meet drawing release dates.
• Provide coordination, technical inputs, and approvals of CDRL items to Documentation Control consistent with their dates.
• Provide coordination, test instructions, and drawings for development testing to Engineering Lab technician(s) consistent with program schedule.
• Communicate technical and schedule problems to Engineering Manager / Director, Contracts Administrator, and Program Manager in a timely manner, when applicable.
• Perform or coordinate all analyses, both design level, and customer‑required.
• Chair internal reviews of the design, and any subsequent changes to the drawings.
• Coordinate and incorporate customer/other disciplines comments to drawings in a timely and tactful manner.

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering
• 3-10 years' relevant work experience in a high‑technology, electro‑mechanical, environmental setting in the Aerospace and Military industries, considered a subject‑matter expert in an area related to…