Job Title: Specialist, Electromechanical EngineerJob Code: 47755Job Location: Salt Lake City, UTSchedule: 9/80 RegJob Description: The Electromechanical Engineer will be responsible for testing, troubleshooting, overhauling, calibrating, and repair of complex electromechanical components using a variety of test instrumentation and custom test sets. Following diagnostics, the engineer will provide recommendations to technicians and the manufacturing team for repair of various sensors, electro-mechanical systems, and electronic assemblies. Maintenance and design assistance of test sets required as needed.
Essential Functions: - Primary responsibilities include testing, troubleshooting, and repair of complex sonar systems and test sets.
- Create and maintain test operations procedures, specifications, and schematics
- Troubleshoot and repair electromechanical systems and sensors, such as piezoelectric transducers.
- Document test findings and diagnose and analyze problems utilizing a variety of test equipment.
- Provide input for process improvements and development of top-level test procedures.
- Construct, calibrate, adjust, test, and maintain equipment used to support sonar testing/tuning.
- Prepare and review design documentation in accordance with contract requirements and/or internal standards.
- Assist Purchasing Dept. with procurement of necessary items as needed.
- Contribute to technical proposal efforts and test readiness reviews.
- Support the assembly and integration of products/systems. Support mechanical system and component alignment, testing, troubleshooting and evaluation.
- Ensure quality through adherence to the Quality Systems Manual, applicable Standard Work Instructions and other standards invoked internally or contractually.
- Work under general supervision and check/verify work performed by peers.
- Perform other duties as required
Qualifications:- Bachelor's Degree in an Engineering discipline, Physics, or a related discipline with 4 or more years of experience in a field utilizing electromechanical systems. Graduate Degree and a min of 2 years of experience.
- Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain a Secret security clearance
- Software used: SolidWorks, MATLAB, Minitab, LabVIEW, ANSYS, Microsoft Office Suite
- Experience with transducers and other electromechanical systems and sensors
- Experience with test equipment such as network analyzers, scopes, DMMs, DAQs, signal generators, and spectrum analyzers
- Rudimentary ability to understand and analyze circuit diagrams
- Experience using LabVIEW or other software protocol to communicate with commercial instrumentation and analog and digital data acquisition systems
Preferred Additional Qualifications and Skills:- Exposure to acoustic and sonar systems and theory
- Experience with dipping sonar and towed bodies and arrays
- Knowledge and use of piezoelectric ceramic transducers (hydrophones, projectors, other)
- Proficiency with software protocols such as Python or other scripting languages
- Certified LabVIEW Associate Developer or above
- Excellent written, oral, presentation, and team skills
- Willing to travel up to 10% of time
