Mechanical Engineer

Job description

Entity

Sagem, a high-tech Safran company, is a world leader in the supply of solutions and services in optronics, avionics, electronics and critical software for both civil and military markets. Sagem is the No. 1 company in Europe and No. 3 worldwide for inertial navigation systems used in air, land and naval applications. It is also No. 1 worldwide in helicopter flight controls and the European leader in optronics and tactical UAV systems. Operating worldwide through Safran's international network, Sagem and its subsidiaries employ 7,500 people in Europe, Asia Pacific, North America and South America. Sagem is the commercial trade name of the company Sagem Défense Sécurité.  

Job details

Main domain/Job field

Research, design and development - Mechanical engineering

Job title

Mechanical Engineer

Employment type

Regular Full time

Professional category

Professional, Engineer & Manager

Part time / Full time

Full-time

Job description

Summary of Job Purpose:

- Conceive new designs and research state of the art electromechanical designs for aerospace cockpit applications, such as pilot controls, display systems and avionics switches.
- Continuous improvement of existing, released products to meet specific customer requirements; these activities will include analysis to assure compliance to customer specifications and industry requirements.
- Preparation of documentation required to define these products, verify compliance to customer requirements, and fulfill Sagem's product development process.
- Support engineering management in making business decisions, help develop program time/schedule estimates and budgets and participate in bid and proposal efforts.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Responsible for complete designs from concept to qualification. Create prototype and conduct engineering development testing to support analysis and assure compliance to established requirements.
- Produce engineering models and drawings to support design efforts.
- Review customer specifications and determine compliance to requirements and/or note exceptions. Review project-related documentation to ensure its accuracy.
- Create new products through improvements of existing products to support customer, using applicable industry standards and regulatory
- Conduct engineering analysis and prepare documentation required to fulfill Sagem's requirements. Analyze designs through the use of Finite Element Analysis (FEA). Verify computer-generated results with conventional calculations.
- Work with customers, suppliers, project managers and other engineering disciplines to optimize designs and identify cost trade-offs.
- Prepare for and participate in Preliminary Design Reviews (PDRs) and Critical Design Reviews (CDRs) to ensure product meets design criteria.
- Verify completed drawings, reports, ECOs and BOMs for clarity, completeness and conformity to standards, procedures and specifications.
- Work with manufacturing engineering on concurrent engineering designs to meet manufacturability and cost goals using Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA) and Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) techniques.
- Work with Configuration and Data Management (CDM) through the document release process using Sagem's Product Data Management (PDM) system, Enovia.
- Participate in design verification, qualification and acceptance testing, and help drive solutions for failures encountered.
- Coordinate with Sales, Marketing and customers to determine design requirements for future and existing products.
- Initiate and promote generation of new ideas and document them for possible future patent application and protection.

Additional description

Skills and Abilities:

- Must have the ability to communicate technical information, whether written or verbal, to other functional departments throughout the organization. Includes creation and participation of group presentations.
- Ability to demonstrate analytical problem solving
- Strong project management and organization skills
- Timeliness of estimates and reports for engineering projects
- Must be able to work on multiple concurrent projects
- Master's Degree in Engineering preferred
- Aerospace experience preferred
- CATIA v5 experience highly preferred – experience in SolidWorks and/or Pro-Engineer a plus
- Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) preferred
- Knowledge of Enovia or other Product Data Management (PDM) system for documentation control and workflow preferred
- Working knowledge of DFSS, Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and Design of Experiments (DOE) preferred
- Experience with ANSYS or other FEA tool preferred
- Experience with DO-160 and MIL-STD-810 preferred

Travel specifictity

Desired profile

Travel
- Occasional travel to customer and/or vendor sites may be required (5%)
- Occasional travel to training locations may be required (5%)
- Travel may be domestic as well as international

Candidate skills & requirements

Education / Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering from an accredited institution
- Minimum of 1 year of mechanical engineering experience utilizing 3D CAD
- Experience in solid modeling
- Legally authorized to work in the US without company sponsorship
- This position requires use of information or access to hardware which is subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). All applicants must be U.S. persons within the meaning of ITAR. ITAR defines a U.S. person as a U.S. Citizen, U.S. Permanent Resident (i.e. 'Green Card Holder'), Political Asylee, or Refugee

Other Requirements:

Physical
- While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk.
- The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.
- The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.