Engineer - GSE Tooling III job vacancy

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Job Description:

As part of a diverse and hardworking team of engineers, you will be responsible for designing, analyzing and releasing a wide range of ground support equipment (GSE) and tooling. Working directly with the Engines Team and their supporting groups, you will be tasked with solving ambitious manufacturing and handling challenges over a wide variety of hardware. You will share in the team’s impact on all aspects of the production line and ensure the successful delivery of development and flight hardware. We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact the development of rocket engines and safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!

Responsibilities:

Develop high quality production, development, test stand integration and manufacturing tooling for Blue Engines
Capable of integrating concepts and principles of mechanical design and analysis of several different projects in a fast-paced environment projects will vary in size and scale
Ability to interpret and apply sound design and drafting standards (ASME Y14.5) when creating tooling drawings
Handle a wide range of technical design challenges related to all types of assembly fixtures, material handling, off-loaders, rotisseries, test fixtures, structural weldments, environmental chambers, and custom machines
Close collaboration with component designers, manufacturing engineers, and integration engineering to achieve the best possible cradle to grave metrics (safety, cost, quality, cycle time, delivery, reliability, life, and maintenance/refurbishment)
Manage projects including vendor selection, fabrication, inspection, equipment installation, proof testing and commissioning of tooling
Set, implement, and maintain schedules and budgets to ensure project completion
Facilitate effective and collaborative communication by fostering creativity and leveraging team member strengths
The ability to work in a team environment is a must. All designs are the collective effort of the team

Skill/Experience/Education:

Mandatory Skills:

A successful candidate will typically have a B.S. degree in any Engineering discipline from an accredited institution 5+ years of work or project experience with design, build, and commissioning of tooling and fixtures for manufacturing, assembly, and test.
In addition; or as an alternate to practical experience, 2 + years of collegiate extracurricular engineering project experience (Formula SAE, Rocket Team, EcoCar, Hyperloop, etc.)
Experience using CAD and FEA-based analysis software (Creo and ANSYS Workbench preferred) for structural applications.
Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and strengthen our culture of inclusion
Must = or national, U.S. permanent resident (current holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Desired Skills:

Experience with structural analysis in addition to the ability to perform hand calculations
Strong expertise in design for manufacturability and design for assembly including experience taking products from development design to rate production
Solid understanding of common manufacturing materials, GD&T, and tolerance/stack-up analysis
Solid understanding of common manufacturing processes and machines including mills, lathes, welding, sheet-metal bending, lifting/rigging, assembly, inspection, etc.
Familiarity with industry standards, such as ASME BTH-1, ACI 318, JSC-65289, and NASA SP-8077
Experience with custom machine design: motors, actuators, linear rails/actuators, pneumatics, bearings, etc.
Experience with ProE/Creo and Windchill CAD/PDM systems
Experience with ANSYS Workbench, FEMAP Pre/Post processing, NASTRAN Solver, NX Advance Simulation, ProE Simulate/Mechanica, etc.

Engineer - GSE & Tooling III