Mechanical Engineer

About the Role

This opportunity resides with Uncrewed Systems (UxS), a business group within HII’s Mission Technologies division. Uncrewed Systems comprises unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs), unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) and autonomy software. HII creates advanced unmanned solutions for defense, marine research and commercial applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Support new development and manufacturing efforts in mechanical design and implementations.
• Demonstrate proficiency in material selection for underwater applications with structural analysis, electronic packing, and CAD modeling (SolidWorks).
• Research, develop, plan designs for mechanical and electromechanical products for underwater applications.
• Coordinate activities involved in fabrication, operation, application, installation, and repair of mechanical or electromechanical products and systems.
• Contribute to the Configuration Management process.
• Ensure seamless transition from engineering design to manufacturing.
• Build prototypes and tests fixtures for new designs or to update existing designs and products.
• Communicate and support the efforts for each department with mechanical designs and implementations.
• Participate in product life cycle analysis.
• Develop and manage technical data packages on new and existing designs.
• Bring designs through first article release, test, integration, delivery to manufacturing, and manufacturing support and improvements.
• Researches, plans, designs, verifies, validates and develops mechanical and/or electromechanical products and systems, such as metals, instruments, controls, plastics, robots, engines, machines and mechanical, resonance, hydraulic or heat transfer systems for production, transmission, measurement, and use of energy.
• Recommends various technology options or approaches for system, processes, facility or program improvements in terms of safety, performance, efficiency or costs.
• May be responsible for the transfer from R and D to manufacturing.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• CAD modeling (SolidWorks)
• Enterprise PDM (EPDM) (Bonus)
• Manufacturing experience with marine products (Bonus)
• Failure Analysis experience (Bonus)

Qualifications

• Ability to obtain and maintain a government clearance.
• May require working in an office, industrial, shipboard, or laboratory environment.
• Capable of climbing ladders and tolerating confined spaces and extreme temperature variances.

Experience Levels

• Level 1: 0 years experience with Bachelors in a related field.
• Level 2: 2 years relevant experience with Bachelors in a related field; or 0 years experience with Masters in a related field.
• Level 3: 5 years relevant experience with Bachelors in a related field; 3 years relevant experience with Masters in a related field; or 0 years experience with PhD or Juris Doctorate in a related field.
• Level 4: 9 years relevant experience with Bachelors in a related field; 7 years relevant experience with Masters in a related field; or 4 years relevant experience with PhD or Juris Doctorate in a related field.