Engineering Manager, Air Vehicle Mechanical Systems (R5391)

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of high talent mechanical engineers, from new grad to Principal, focused on aircraft mechanisms and actuation systems (architecture, detailed design, analysis support, release, and sustaining).
• Support your team as a technical resource for end-to-end design of mechanisms including (as applicable):
• Doors & latching
• Uplocks / Downlocks
• Landing gear mechanisms
• Actuation integration for flight controls
• Nozzle / propulsion actuation mechanisms
• Actuation, Hydraulics

Job requirements

• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (or equivalent).
• 10+ years experience with aerospace mechanisms and actuated system design, build, integration, test and flight.
• 2+ years leading teams or performing in a team leadership role.
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams with high autonomy—setting direction, ensuring quality, and scaling output through people.
• Strong engineering fundamentals: kinematics, statics/dynamics, fatigue/wear, tolerancing/GD&T, materials and finishes, lubrication/bearings, failure modes.
• Experience shipping hardware through prototype build, test, iteration, and release, including supplier and manufacturing engagement.
• Experience with environmental and operational robustness (vibration/shock, thermal extremes, contamination, corrosion, sand/dust, etc.).
• Experience supporting ground test and flight test campaigns and mechanism failure investigations.