Capture Engineer

Ensign-Bickford Aerospace and Defense • Simsbury, CT • 1h ago

This opportunity is located within our Ensign-Bickford Aerospace & Defense Company business, a global leader of mission-critical hardware and systems solutions including precision energetics systems and innovative explosive solutions. Click here (https://www.eba-d.com/) to learn more.

Job Description

EBAD is seeking a Capture Engineer with experience in the aerospace & defense industry. The Capture Engineer will be responsible for working with the Business Development, New Business Capture, and Development Engineering teams to perform concept design, modeling, and prototyping of energetic and non-energetic components and systems, ensuring the new product designs meet the customer needs. This position reports directly to the Engineering Technology Manager. This job can be located in either Simsbury, CT or Moorpark, CA.

Responsibilities:

Partner with business segment leadership to proactively develop winning engineering solutions

Prepare programs for success in development and manufacturing by understanding customer need, communicating EBAD capability, and identifying sound solutions for the broader EBAD team to execute on programs of record

Assess design feasibility using quantitative methods (e.g. hand calculations, instrumented test, or FEA)

Understand assigned market segment business strategy and independently act in support of that strategy

Lead business capture efforts as the technical point of contact with the customer and internally

Create 3D conceptual models and renderings

Integrate EBAD products into customer system level designs

Develop and implement creative design solutions that solve customer problems

Plan and execute rapid proto@type builds and conceptual tests

Perform design trade studies and requirement and risk assessments to ensure design

Estimate and manage costs for assigned internally funded R&D, proposal and development activities

Identify, propose, and execute internally funded R&D projects to meet market needs in partnership with the business development team

Create and maintain product specifications and compliance verification for capture and IR&D projects

Manage and mitigate capture and IR&D program technical, schedule, and cost risks

Travel up to 10% of the time.

Requirements:

The successful candidate must hold a BS (MS/MEng Preferred) in an engineering discipline and a minimum of 5 years of experience developing aerospace and defense products

Experience leading technical teams

Experience communicating effectively verbally and in writing with customers and internal management

Commitment to safety

Ability to make sound judgement calls in order to proceed with minimal requirements and guidance from customers and stakeholders

Proficiency with solid modelling (SolidWorks preferred)

Ability to interpret and analyze technical specifications

Ability to obtain a US Department of Defense (DoD) security clearance

Status as a U.S. Citizen capable of working on U.S. DoD and ITAR restricted products

Knowledge of explosive materials and energetic devices

Desired Skills:

Electro-mechanical device integration

Low volume, high mix manufacturing

Compensation:

Salary Range: $100,000 - $160,000 per year. Salary is determined by the applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, internal equity, and alignment with market data.

Ensign-Bickford Aerospace & Defense Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information, national origin, or veteran status.

Ensign-Bickford Industries, (http://e-bind.com) (EBI), founded in 1836, is a privately-owned high technology conglomerate that participates in businesses that are relevant to the future of the world and have multigenerational growth prospects. As One EBI, we innovate in science and technology for the safety, health, and well-being of society, creating exceptional long-term value.

Watch the video above to learn more about some of the incredible challenges we take on every day to deliver the best product for our customers, and ultimately the world.

Ensign-Bickford Industries (EBI) is a global science and technology organization with unparalleled leadership positions in attractive industries and markets. We are EBI, positioned to take on some of the world's most complex technological and scientific challenges in diagnostics, pet food science, and aerospace and defense.

Click here to learn about our Core Values (https://ensign-bickfordind.com/ebi-core-values/)

We conduct business in a manner that reflects the highest human and ethical standards. With that commitment to mutually beneficial partnerships and a belief in the efficacy of genuine economic and social service, this cornerstone is the foundation of who we are as a company and our winning vision.

AFB International (http://www.ensign-bickfordind.com/subsidiaries/afb-international/)

AFB is the leader in pet food flavor enhancers. Ensuring product performance for pet food manufacturers-and their customers-is our business.

Cawood (https://cawood.co.uk/)

Cawood is the UK's leading scientific group, recognized for its technical capability and value-added service to customers in land-based industries.

? Ensign-Bickford Aerospace & Defense Company (http://www.ensign-bickfordind.com/subsidiaries/ensign-bickford-aerospace-defense/)

EBAD is a global leader in precision energetic systems and other innovative explosives, non-explosive and electromechanical solutions for the defense and aerospace markets.

? EnviroLogix (http://www.ensign-bickfordind.com/subsidiaries/envirologix-inc/)

EnviroLogix is an industry leader in the development and manufacturing of tests for the rapid detection of GMOs and mycotoxins throughout the worldwide food production chain.

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