Principal Mechanical Engineer, Air Vehicle Engineering Lead

Principal Mechanical Engineer

At Raytheon, the foundation of everything we do is rooted in our values and a higher calling – to help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression. We bring the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today's mission and stay ahead of tomorrow's threat. Our team solves tough, meaningful problems that create a safer, more secure world.

We are currently hiring a Principal Mechanical Engineer in Mechanical Engineering to join the Precision Control Actuation Systems (PCAS) Department of the Hardware Engineering organization, located in Tucson, AZ (On-site).

This position supports the Air Vehicle (AV) integrated product team (IPT) within the Strategic Strike SSBU and requires a high level of demonstrated technical and schedule execution expertise, coupled with the ability to lead high visibility projects and failure investigations on a critical proprietary program.

You will be responsible for providing team guidance and leadership to drive execution of all design maturation and verification/validation tasks for multiple missile section assemblies. In this role, the AV Engineering Lead will serve as a technical subject matter expert (SME) for the integration of various mechanisms and other subsystems into the missile section assemblies.

In addition, the AV Engineering Lead will support requirement tracing to planned test activities and coordinate with engineers across multiple IPTs in the generation and review of requirements verification artifacts. Other responsibilities include directing qualification risk reduction testing and missile-level structural qualification testing.

The AV Engineering Lead role requires proactive and effective collaboration and communication across the program with members of multiple IPTs, technical subject matter experts, the Office of the Chief Engineer, and appropriate Customer stakeholders.

• Provide technical leadership and oversight to develop, test, verify, and qualify hardware associated with various control mechanisms and major missile subassemblies within the scope of the Air Vehicle IPT.
• Lead a team of engineers to plan and prioritize all tasking. Identify roadblocks and determine mitigation steps to brief Office of the Chief Engineer, Program Management, Quality, Finance, and the Customer on status of critical tasking.
• Communicate both to Raytheon leadership and the customer community to provide critical task status, next steps, accomplishments, issues, and help needed, while influencing other IPTs to ensure program alignment and efficient teamwork.
• Provide leadership, mentoring, and guidance to a team of engineers within the program.
• Direct and coordinate missile-level structural qualification testing, including leading a team of multidisciplinary engineers to meet test milestones such as plan generation, test equipment design and procurement, risk reduction dry runs, test execution, data review, and report submission.
• You will be expected to work autonomously, have expert level knowledge within the control mechanism development domain, and assist in developing strategic vision for functional and organizational strategies of the PCAS organization, beyond assigned program work.

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience or An Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years experience
• Experience in Airframe, Controls, and/or Mechanisms design and/or verification including electro-mechanical, spring, and/or pyro energetic activated mechanisms.
• Experience with reading and/or applying GD&T to a variety of engineering drawings, including mechanism piece parts and large airframe castings.
• Experience leading a team or projects.
• Ability to obtain Secret Special Access government clearance (required prior to start date).

• Advanced degree in Controls or similar engineering field.
• Experience working with complex mechanisms in air-launched platforms.
• Experience managing cross-functional teams in a technical…