- Salary
- $125k – $145k
- Location
- McLean, VA, US
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Engineering
- Seniority
- Senior
- Closing date
- Today
- Source
- iCIMS
Description
Overview
AMERICAN SYSTEMS is an employee-owned federal government contractor supporting national priority programs through our strategic solutions in the areas of Information Technology, Engineering & Analysis, Test & Evaluation, and Training.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for providing guidance and expertise in mechanical engineering to design complex mechanical equipment and systems, and to investigate, evaluate and develop new applications for existing equipment and systems.
- Determines theoretical principles involved and applying advanced analytical and investigative methods and techniques.
- Analyzes assigned tasks to provide estimates of manpower and material required to complete.
- Prepares schedules for accomplishing tasks within estimates.
- Supervises and coordinates technicians in fabrication and installation of complex mechanical and related electronic equipment and systems.
- May direct field operation and maintenance activities of mechanical equipment/systems installations.
- Evaluates operational systems and designs modification to eliminate causes of malfunctions or changes in system requirements.
- Develops new applications requiring appreciable originality and ingenuity, and complex test procedures for equipment and systems which are significantly different from existing designs.
- Plans, organizes and conducts the development of each assignment; coordinates manpower assigned to each activity and coordinates the activities of group involved in various stages of overall program to ensure effective integration.
- Provides technical guidance to personnel involved with producing design fabrication drawings.
- Reviews and corrects drawings to ensure proper engineering techniques and required specification have been utilized.
- Develops, releases and maintains documentation in accordance with company and contractual requirements.
- Reviews, writes and edits reports such as evaluation plans, test results, technical manuals, etc. to provide recommendations, conclusions, and other data.
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Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Math, Physics, or Computer Science
- Active Secret security clearance or the ability to obtain a Secret security clearance.
- U.S. Citizenship Required for the purposes of obtaining/holding a U.S. security clearance
- Five years experience with ship alterations engineering requirements
- Seven years of collective experience in:
- Modeling and simulation of new designs as well as facilitating changes to existing designs using Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM) tools and software
- Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software
- Weight & Moment analysis
- Static analysis
- Commercial and military specification material selection
- Materials alternatives analysis
