Requisition Number: 30761
Required Travel: 0 - 10%
Employment Type: Full Time/Salaried/Exempt
Anticipated Salary Range: $70,116.00 - $90,000.00
Security Clearance: Ability to Obtain
Level of Experience: College
This opportunity resides with
Warfare Systems (WS), a business group within HII's Mission Technologies division. Warfare Systems comprises cyber and mission IT; electronic warfare; and C5ISR systems.
Job DescriptionHII is seeking an imaginative and adaptable
Junior Mechanical Engineer that is on schedule to graduate in May 2027 to join our fast-paced, interdisciplinary teams in our Alexandria, VA location. If you're eager to apply your foundational mechanical engineering knowledge to design and rapidly prototype tangible mission hardware for the
defense and intelligence communities, this is a fantastic opportunity!
We specialize in customized, mission-enabling solutions that blend technology and tradecraft. You'll work on projects that move quickly from concept to deployment, realizing the results of your ideas as finished products used worldwide.
Your role will involve:
- Hands-On Design & Prototyping: Applying mechanical engineering theory and methods to a diverse portfolio of projects. This includes developing solutions like electromechanical devices, motion platforms, electronics packaging, and multi-spectral signature management (visible, NIR, thermal, acoustic, RF).
- DFM Focus: Utilizing a basic understanding of Design for Manufacturing (DFM) to ensure your designs are optimized for both subtractive and additive manufacturing methods.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Working directly with senior engineers, technicians, managers, and end-user clients in small, close-knit teams. Regular communication is key to maintaining a flexible and highly adaptive engineering process.
- System Integration: Applying a basic knowledge of electrical applications to ensure all mechanical designs are suitable for seamless product integration.
Essential Job Responsibilities- Provide support to the design, development, prototype fabrication, and verification testing of unique specialty products
- Perform detailed system and sub-system analysis, simulation, and design work as required
- Work with complicated mechanical system concepts and detailed designs to properly determine the necessary design tradeoffs
- Interface with project teams and external customers as required, to support specialized product development
- Participate in the assembly, system test planning, and system test procedure generation
- Adequately document processes, procedures, and testing using structured formats. Where formats do not currently exists, provide a recommended format for review
- Learn and utilize the Quality Management System (QMS) and existing tools and templates
- Interface with project teams and external customers as required, to support specialized product development
Minimum Qualifications- 0 years of experience with a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field
- U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret level security clearance
- Experience working on a project that utilized Project Management techniques and practices
- Experience using 3-D modeling software for complex assemblies, detailed design, and realistic rendering
- Knowledge of raw materials, prototyping and production processes, quality control and other techniques for maximizing the effective fabrication and manufacture of electro-mechanical devices
Preferred Requirements- Experience working directly with a customer to understand and interpret needs and specifications is preferred
- Working knowledge of current and novel technologies related to mechanical engineering design, fabrication, and testing
- Ability to study industrial processes to determine where and how application of our products can be made
- Active US Secret level security clearance
Physical RequirementsMay require working in an office, industrial, shipboard, or laboratory environment. Capable of climbing ladders and tolerating confined spaces and extreme temperature variances.
HII is more than a job - it's an opportunity to build a new future. We offer competitive benefits such as best-in-class medical, dental and vision plan choices; wellness resources; employee assistance programs; Savings Plan Options (401(k)); financial planning tools, life insurance; employee discounts; paid holidays and paid time off; tuition reimbursement; as well as early childhood and post-secondary education scholarships. Bonus/other non-recurrent compensation is occasionally offered for qualified positions, and if applicable to this role will be addressed by the recruiter at the screening phase of application.
