Mechanical Design Engineer II – New Glenn Umbilicals
| Company | Blue Origin |
|---|---|
| Location | Merritt Island, FL, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Mid Level, Senior |
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, or equivalent
- 2+ years of proven designing aerospace or equivalent type mechanical system elements within aircraft, spacecraft, or launch vehicles using metallic and/or composite materials, manufacturing processes, and assembly methods
- Working knowledge of aerospace materials and treatments
- Able to work at a detailed part design level and understand higher level system impacts
- Experience in 3D CAD programs (Creo preferred)
- Experience with GD&T (ASME Y14.5)
- Experienced with manufacturing, fabrication, integration processes, and quality control techniques relative to aerospace hardware
- Experience with stack-ups, linear and radial and types of fits
- Experience with static and dynamic seals and spring seal design
- Experience with one or more cryogenic, hydraulic, or pneumatic fluid systems or component design
- Experience with secondary structure design
- Experience in bolted joint design
- Ability to clearly communicate engineering information to multi-functional teams
- Some climbing, lifting, and general mobility required to be able to access hardware
- Strong organizational skills
- Committed to following industry standard processes for safety and quality
- Strong desire to continuously learn and improve
- Self-motivated with a strong desire to learn, take ownership, and drive projects to completion
- Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum
Responsibilities
- Manage new design solutions, design changes, and continuous improvements to launch vehicle structural/fluid Umbilicals assemblies
- Create design artifacts including 3D models, detail part drawings, assembly drawings, installation drawings, and interface control documents
- Provide technical guidance and on-site support for manufacturing, production, integration, and test activities
- Drive root cause analyses and corrective actions of hardware non-conformances
- Perform or facilitate hand calculation and/or FEM analyses of new designs
- Coordinate design updates with manufacturing, production, integration, test, and launch operations teams. Provide technical on-site support to these teams as needed to implement design updates.
- Clearly document and communicate design updates to facilitate smooth production cut-ins
- Find opportunities for improvement to build rates and cost
- Identify and support test activities necessary to verify designs
- Prepare technical content and present to internal customers
- Perform engineering inspections of launch vehicle and ground systems hardware pre or post launch
Preferred Qualifications
- 4+ years of proven experience in the design of fluid systems and/or mechanisms
- Experience in Finite Element Analysis (FEA) tools to analyze pressurized systems and secondary structures (ANSYS preferred)
- Experienced analyzing and designing dynamic hardware
- Experienced working in production environment in aerospace or launch vehicle industries
- Hands-on test experience for mechanical or fluid assembly testing
- Hands-on manufacturing experience for mechanical or fluid assemblies
- Experience with launch vehicle or ground cryogenic and pressurized systems