Specialist, Mechanical Engineering

L3Harris • Palm Bay, FL • 6h ago

L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers' mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.

L3Harris is the Trusted Disruptor in defense tech. With customers' mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

Job Title: Specialist Mechanical Engineering

Job Code: 39283

Job Location: Palm Bay, FL

Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days - totaling 80 hours worked, and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

The Military Avionics group specializes in developing disruptive, next-generation technologies for military aircraft using small company agility and big company experience. Team is seeking an Electronic Packaging Mechanical Engineer specializing in thermal analysis to work with a cross-functional team to assist development, design, and implementation of avionics electronic systems. We are seeking a self-motivated individual contributor with strong thermal analysis skills. The position will follow the product from conceptualization through hardware integration and test, executing the thermal analysis. In this role you will perform analysis of avionics electronics equipment using first order thermodynamics and fluid mechanics principles, along with conjugate heat transfer simulations (CFD), to predict system and component level thermal responses.

Essential Functions:

Works under general supervision on tasking that is typically assigned with high level requirements, may be responsible for entire projects within job area. Some derivation of requirements may be required to support the design.

Leverages prior experience to support designs. Actively seeks feedback from SME's and other knowledgeable colleagues as needed.

Knows when to question requirements to determine real product needs

Actively seeks out information by interfacing with external disciplines as required to accomplish assigned tasking

Assists with new hire and intern onboarding, including support of career fairs and university outreach. Communicates applicable processes and standard operating procedures as well as their importance and benefits.

Establishes working relationships in other disciplines and departments such as operations, quality, and procurement

Effectively documents and communicates design intent.

Provides regular status reporting of accomplishments, issues, and challenges as well as potential risks directly applicable to current tasking

Demonstrated ability and creativity to propose multiple conceptual design solutions

Ability to obtain a US Security Clearance

Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree and minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

Experience in 3D CAD modeling - PTC Creo, Catia, NX, Fusion 360, Solidworks, etc.

Excellent people skills, with experience working and collaborating in a multi-disciplinary, diverse, and dynamic team environment.

Strong hands-on capabilities, to include integration of mechanisms and products.

Experience with MS Office suite

First order analysis of heating/cooling thermal management systems (conduction, convection). I.E Heat Transfer 101

Experience in CFD software packages: FloTHERM is preferred. Ansys, Icepack, StarCCM, OpenFOAM, etc. acceptable.

Experience in thermal analysis for packaging electronics including design for and testing to military environments (i.e. temperature, vibration, shock, etc.)

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