Mechanical Process Engineer - Associate Level

Job Description - Mechanical Process Engineer - Associate Level (PFO
000673)

Mechanical Process Engineer – Associate Level – (PFO
000673)

We are in search of a Mechanical Process Engineer. This position can be performed in either 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 designing, constructing, and operating unique and complex research and development facilities, including 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. 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.

• Work on and lead project teams to develop new designs for various process systems supporting automotive and aerospace research and test facilities.
• Take ownership of the technical schedule and budget performance of the work assigned.
• Plan, schedule, conduct, and coordinate engineering work under the direction of a senior engineer, selecting and adapting techniques, procedures and criteria.
• Analyze features or work and apply sound engineering principles and practices.
• Review results from assigned tasks to determine completeness, correctness, and adequacy of documentation.
• Develop technical reports and presentations for project management and clients.
• Formally check the work of others for completeness.
• Work closely with structural, machine design, controls and instrumentation, and aerodynamics/fluid dynamics engineers.
• Sizing and specifying piping/ducting components, compressors, pumps, fans, valves, flow measurement, and fluid conditioning equipment.
• Design high‑pressure cryogenic and pneumatic piping systems, high‑temperature steam systems, refrigeration, vacuum, fuel systems, specialty HVAC systems, and components.
• Support project management and senior engineering in ongoing design efforts.
• Participate in internal and external meetings and design reviews with team members and clients.
• Gather information, interview stakeholders, perform studies, calculations, and prepare rough layouts and sketches as required.
• Provide installation support and supervision: work with suppliers, subcontractors, and other trades from the office and project sites.
• Create engineering calculations and specifications and oversee the creation of engineering drawings.
• Travel as required to support design reviews, factory acceptance testing, construction activities, and startup/commissioning activities at job sites.
• Participate in proposal development and support marketing activities.
• Perform field work, including climbing on test stands and working around machinery.