Position Summary:The Design and Systems Engineering Supervisor researches, plans, and designs mechanical and electromechanical products and systems.
Responsibilities:- Supervises a small team of engineers, providing mentorship, reviewing output of team members, and driving design tasks to closure.
- Manages engineering related budgets and schedules and tracks team performance accordingly.
- Performs CAD modeling, stress hand calculations, mechanical design, instrumentation packaging, material research, tolerance stacks and other related tasks to progress the engineering solution.
- Support customer interface meetings, internal project status meetings, and tracks engineering schedule and budget performance at a task level.
- Generates project bill of materials, resource requests, engineering reports, design review presentations, assembly & instrumentation instructions, interface control documents, and other related documents to record and disseminate the engineering solution to customers as well as downstream functions.
Preferred Education / Experience:- Bachelor's degree in engineering discipline with 10+ years of related experience, or a combination of education and experience equivalent to above.
- Candidate should have excellent communication skills and enjoy working in a fast-paced work environment.
- Must be a self-starter, able to work on multiple projects, and prioritize workload.
- General familiarity with aerospace research and development test products such as wind tunnel models, test engines and prototype devices; and analysis of these in the subsonic, transonic and hypersonic realms.
- US citizenship required to obtain/maintain a DOD security clearance.
Preferred Knowledge / Ability:- Experienced in the design and analysis of gas turbine, ramjet and scramjet engines and/or liquid propellant rockets and related system design and analysis.
- Experienced with engineering CAD codes; preferably SOLIDWORKS and/or NX.
- Experienced with engineering thermal and structural analysis codes; preferably ANSYS.
- General understanding of computational fluid dynamic techniques and limitations.
- Familiar with aerospace test device instrumentation sensors and selection for specific test objectives.
- Experienced with detailed drawing, checking, GD&T and tolerance stacks.
- US citizenship required to obtain/maintain a DOD security clearance.
The salary range provided is a general guideline. Actual pay will depend on several factors, including, but not limited to, education, experience, training, and other applicable qualifications. North Wind is committed to pay transparency in compliance with applicable state and local laws.
All candidates must be eligible to work in the United States.
