Lead, Mechanical Engineering - Structural Analyst
Rochester, New York; Fort Wayne, Indiana; Palm Bay, Florida
Job ID SAS20221506-84168Overview
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- Level: Experienced
- Location: On Site
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Health
- Medical with a High Deductible and traditional PPO plan options, as well as, vision and a full array of supplemental health benefits
- A doctors' service to help with referrals and second opinions for you, your family, and parents
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- 4 weeks of paid parental leave for moms and dads
- Fertility treatment
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- Pet insurance
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- No cap to your PTO time (for exempt employees)
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- Legal plan for you, your family, and parents
- Discount platform
- 9/80 work schedule available for most U.S. employees, effective October 24, 2022.
Job Description
L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing diverse, high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.
L3Harris Technologies is an agile global aerospace and defense technology innovator, delivering end-to-end solutions that meet customers’ mission-critical needs. The company provides advanced defense and commercial technologies across space, air, land, sea and cyber domains. L3Harris has approximately $18 billion in annual revenue and 47,000 employees, with customers in more than 100 countries.
Job Title: Lead, Mechanical Engineering - Structural Analyst
Job Code: SAS20221506-84168
Job Location: Rochester, NY / Fort Wayne, IN / Palm Bay, FL
Job Description:
L3Harris has an opportunity for a Lead level Structural Analyst to join our talented engineering organization. Lead engineers are technical leaders across multidisciplinary teams of engineers to perform mechanical analysis tasks on complex systems including precision mechanisms, electro-mechanical hardware, opto-mechanical, and complex electronic packaging in a program team environment. This position is responsible for the analysis of composite, metallic, and glass components and assemblies for space, airborne, and ground based systems.
Essential Functions:
- Interpret design specifications and create finite element models of complex components and assemblies for structural analysis.
- Analyze the models for stress, strain, displacement, modes, etc. at both component and assembly levels.
- Prepare reports, formal documentation, and presentation materials summarizing analysis results and presenting results to both external and internal groups.
- Program support includes mission/requirements definition, concept generation, trade studies, design sensitivity/optimization studies, preliminary and final design, component selection, integration and test support, materials selection, CAD 3D solid modeling, design documentation and collaboration with manufacturing operations for fabrication in a program team environment.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering and minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree in Engineering and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience.
- Experience with commercial FEA codes and Pre/Post Processors (preferably Nastran and Femap or Patran, would also consider Abaqus or Ansys)
- Experience in aerospace systems with an emphasis on structural/dynamics analysis
Preferred Additional Skills:
- Knowledge of system level hardware design & development, mechanical and structural analysis, payload level integration & test, and risk mitigation for space-based environments.
- Experience with opto-mechanical hardware
- Ability to work independently and within a multi-disciplined team environment
- Experience as a lead engineer, project engineer, or IPT lead is a plus.
- An understanding of structural analysis methods (FEA and hand-calculations)
- Experience in the space industry highly desired
- Familiarity with 3D CAD programs such as Creo or Pro/E
- Experience with computational programming (Matlab, Python, Fortran)
- Active TS/SCI Clearance
Please be aware many of our positions require the ability to obtain a security clearance. Security clearances may only be granted to U.S. citizens. In addition, applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment may be subject to government security investigation(s) and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
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