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Principal Mechanical Engineer – Structural Engineer
| Company | RTX |
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| Location | Tucson, AZ, USA |
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| Salary | $101000 – $203000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s |
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| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- Typically requires a Bachelor in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience. In absence of a degree, 12+ years of experience. An advanced degree in a related field may be substituted for additional years of experience
- Experience in using structural analysis tools (PATRAN or NASTRAN or ANSYS or equivalent software)
Responsibilities
- Perform detailed structural analyses to support all phases of programs
- Generate test plans required to validate analyses and verify hardware compliance to customer requirements
- Analyze test data to validate and correlate models, and/or generate mechanical loads and environments
- Work with limited oversight on complex problems to provide the answers needed under program cost and schedule constraints
- Coordinate and lead technical peer reviews ensuring the technical accuracy of work product as well as acting as a reviewer for others work products
- Present results to internal stakeholders and external customers
- Generate detailed, archival technical reports
- Travel to test sites to support test or design discussion (depending on work assignment)
- Act as a technical leader (help define and develop MA&T department technical processes and tools) and lead teams to meet program milestones
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience running complex structural analysis with any of the following tools: Dynamic, Static, Non-linear, Transient, etc
- Understanding of mechanical principles to solve classical structural analysis both inside and outside finite element tools
- Experience leading teams and strong interpersonal skills working in a team environment
- Ability to work in a collaborative, team-based environment and independently
- 10+ years of professional experience in the structural analysis of complex systems that require collaboration of multiple engineering disciplines (such as a weapon system)
- Experience in structural testing: planning, organization, execution, data reduction and correlation
- Experience with dynamic shock and vibration analysis
- Experience with solid modeling CAD tool such as CREO or equivalent
- Experience with Matlab
- Experience presenting to external customers
- Ability to travel to government and other facilities in support of program activities
- Advanced degree in aforementioned disciplines
- ABET is the preferred, although not required, accreditation standard
