Mechanical Process Engineer - Professional Career

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Mechanical Process Engineer - Professional Career (PFO
000670)

Tullahoma, TN or Farmington Hills, MI

We are in search of a Mechanical Process Engineer. This position can be performed in either of our Tullahoma, TN or Farmington Hills, MI offices.

Join our team turning abstract ideas into realities. Collaborate with industry experts to develop solutions to mission-critical challenges, such as NASA’s return to the moon, the DoD’s national security initiatives, international automotive manufacturers’ development of fuel-efficient and electric vehicles, and the DoE’s energy research. We tackle challenges in emerging technologies, cyber, intelligence, space exploration, energy transformation, and resiliency to ensure national security.

As the world’s thinkers, visionaries, and doers, we disrupt the status quo and affect real, meaningful change in how we provide solutions to our customers, operate our business, and support communities.

Our Group specializes in the design, construction, and operation of unique and complex research and development facilities, including, as examples, wind tunnels (aerospace, automotive, and motorsports), rocket test stands, climatic chambers, jet engine test cells, acoustic chambers, altitude test facilities, captive trajectory systems, and nuclear facilities. Our projects span the automotive, motorsports, defense, nuclear, and aerospace markets. Recent clients include Audi, Boeing, BMW, Fiat Chrysler, Ford, Honda, General Motors, NASA, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, U.S. Department of Energy, Volkswagen, confidential F1 motorsports clients, and many others in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Most of your designs will be unique, and you will usually be working on several projects at one time in a dynamic, challenging, and even fun environment. This position will provide you with an exciting opportunity to lead and manage projects as part of a multi-discipline team of professionals. We are looking for a mechanical process engineer who will work to ensure client satisfaction and deliver key projects within scope, budget, and schedule.

You should be a self‑motivated professional with at least 5 years of progressive design experience.

• Working on and leading project teams to develop new designs for various process systems supporting automotive and aerospace research and test facilities.
• Taking ownership of the technical schedule and budget performance of the work assigned to them
• Under direction of a senior engineer; planning, scheduling, conducting and coordinating engineering work through the selection and adaptation or modification of techniques, procedures and criteria
• Analyzing features or work and applying sound engineering principles and practices
• Reviewing results from assigned tasks and from junior engineer and determining if results are complete, correct, and adequately documented.
• Developing technical reports and presentations for project management and clients
• Formally checking the work of others for completeness

Working closely with structural, machine design, controls and instrumentation and aerodynamics/fluid dynamics engineers.

• Sizing and specifying piping/ducting and piping/ducting components, selection of compressors, pumps and fans, valves, flow measurement and fluid conditioning equipment.
• Designing
  • High pressure cryogenic and pneumatic piping systems
  • High Temperature systems including steam systems
  • Refrigeration, vacuum, and fuel systems
  • Specialty HVAC systems and components
• Working in a fast‑paced environment and under deadlines while maintaining high quality standards
• Supporting Project Manager and Senior Engineer in on‑going design efforts
• Participating in internal and external meetings and design reviews with team members and clients
• Gathering information, interviewing stakeholders, making studies, performing calculations, and preparing rough layouts and sketches as required.
• Installation support and supervision: working with suppliers, subcontractors and other trades from the office and project sites
• Create engineering calculations and specifications and oversee the creation of engineering…