Associate, Mechanical Design

Job description

Job Title: Associate, Mechanical Design Job Code: 44134 Job Location: West Palm Beach, FL Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked, and have every other Friday off We are seeking a Mechanical Design Associate to join our engineering design team in West Palm Beach, FL. This position requires mechanical design skills that will be applied in designing and solving issues in the development of combustion devices for large liquid rocket engines. Working with other senior staff and subject matter experts, the candidate will support component valve, injector, pre-burner and gas generator, chamber, or nozzle design and integration of this type of hardware used in high pressure, extreme environment applications. This candidate will be required to work through all types of technical design tasks with support from senior staff. The selected candidate will effectively perform mechanical design engineering assignments requiring application of advanced principles, theories and concepts to develop propulsion hardware for spacecraft. Duties include formal disposition of hardware non-conformances (35%), affordability/trades/improvements of designs by coordinating with multiple different engineering disciplines (30%), clean sheet component and assembly designs (20%), and on-site or supplier hardware support to manufacturing (15%). Minimum Qualifications: To be eligible, applicants must be pursuing a bachelor's degree Mechanical/Aerospace/Aeronautical/Civil Engineering or have completed their bachelor's degree within the last 12 months, regardless of age.