Principal Engineer - Mechanical Design Lead - Ejection Seats (Onsite)

Colorado Springs, CO, United States

Date Posted:

2024-03-15 Country:

United States of America Location:

HCO03: Mission Systems (Ejec Seating) 1225 Aeroplaza Drive , Colorado Springs, CO, 80916 USA Position Role Type:

Onsite Do you want to be a part of something bigger? A team whose impact stretches across the world, and even beyond? At Collins Aerospace, our Mission Systems team helps civilian, military and government customers complete their most complex missions — whatever and wherever they may be. Our customers depend on us for intelligent and secure communications, missionized systems for specialized aircraft and spacecraft and collaborative space solutions. By joining our team, you’ll have your own critical part to play in ensuring our customer succeeds today while anticipating their needs for tomorrow. Are you up for the challenge? Join our mission today.

Principal Engineer - Mechanical Design Integration Lead - Ejection Seats (Onsite)

Position Overview:

This ON SITE position is for a Mechanical Design Engineer within the Design Integration Engineering Team. The position will be responsible for providing design engineering deliverables through all phases of development, bid and proposals, support through qualification testing, and initial production implementation. This individual will propose new technology, create innovative design solutions, execute design reviews, work directly with customers, and support testing of the ejection seat products.

This person would make design decisions using strong fundamentals, coach others in making good design choices, and interface with the customer, value stream leadership, and program chief (technical program leader). This person would also support ejection seat manufacturing for testing or delivery to customers, root cause corrective action activities, and writing test plans and reports to meet contract obligations.

Essential Responsibilities:

Work as part of a cohesive team with test engineering, product engineering, systems engineering, and program management

Support through all phases of design including: bid and proposal, conceptual design, preliminary design, detailed design, qualification testing, new product introduction, and production implementation.

Successfully execute on design/project tasks required to develop and qualify aircraft ejection seats by ensuring technical scope integrity and budget/schedule accuracy

Support aftermarket and operations with engineering dispositions, customer communications, and occasional on-site engineer-on-call support

Support program by writing technical presentations and reports for customer approval

Support Program Management with any preparation of bids and proposals

Support Systems Engineering on requirements analysis and the requirement compliance plan.

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree (typically in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM)) and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience unless prohibited by local laws/regulations OR Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years experience OR In absence of a degree, 12 years of relevant experience is required

Must be a U.S. Citizen

Required Experience:

Greater than 8 years experience in a design engineering role and demonstrated progressively increasing skill and responsibility

Experience with design of mechanical components, brackets, fasteners, linkages and mechanisms, fabrics, and gears

Experience with interpreting and creating equipment specifications, facilitating verification testing, and generation of qualification and certification documentation.

Hands-on experience with assembly, troubleshooting, and testing

Experience with complex tolerance stack ups – fits and clearances, large numbers of parts, moving parts, helicoils

Working knowledge of aerospace materials, processes, and finishes.

Experience with manufacturing processes, including but not limited to machined elements, forging, casting, injection molding, thermal forming, and sheet metal fabrications

Experience with machining, sheet metal, composites, and fabric design

Understanding of mechanical principles to solve classical mechanics and dynamics design problems

The candidate must be motivated, a strong team player, andable to work in a team environment.

Outstanding communication skills, especially cross-discipline

Exhibit a positive attitude in a dynamic environment, and great mentoring/delegating skills

US citizenship is required

Preferred Experience:

CAD modeling of parts and constraint assembly, with associated detail drawings and layouts utilizing Siemens NX CAD software, Enovia PLM

ANSI Y14.5 and working familiarity with GDT.

Previous experience in the aerospace and defense industry

Previous experience with aircraft cockpit, crew station, escape system, ejection seat, or crew systems design

Previous experience with energetic cartridge actuated devices or propellant actuated devices

Previous experience of aerospace/military specifications

Diversity drives innovation; inclusion drives success . We believe a multitude of approaches and ideas enable us to deliver the best results for our workforce, workplace, and customers. We are committed to fostering a culture where all employees can share their passions and ideas so we can tackle the toughest challenges in our industry and pave new paths to limitless possibility.

Some of our competitive benefits package includes:

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees

Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option

Tuition reimbursement

Life insurance and disability coverage

Optional coverages you can buy: Pet Insurance, Home and Auto, additional life insurance, accident insurance,critical illnessinsurance, group legal

Ovia Health, fertility and family planning

Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 5 free counseling sessions

Redbrick - Incentives for a Healthy You

Autism Benefit

Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits

Adoption Assistance

Best Doctors, second opinion program

And more!

At Collins, the paths we pave together lead to limitless possibility. And the bonds we form – with our customers and with each other -- propel us all higher, again and again.

Apply now and be part of the team that’s redefining aerospace, every day.

The salary range for this role is 96,000 USD - 200,000 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, location, education/training, and key skills.Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays. Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual performance, business unit performance, and/or the company’s performance.This role is a U.S.-based role. If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory, the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply.RTX anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require RTX to shorten or extend the application window. RTX is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.

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