Description:
Job Title: Sr Associate, Project Engineer
Job Code: AS20212604-60347
Job Location: Torrance, CA
Job Description:
L3Harris Electron Devices currently has an opportunity for a Project Engineer to join the team in the Military Helix Traveling Wave Tube (TWT) group at our Torrance, California location. In this position you will support production, development and continuous improvement efforts for TWTs and Microwave Power Modules (MPMs) built at EDD and used in a variety of commercial and military systems for communications, radar and electronic warfare. As a Project Engineer, you will be responsible for technical support throughout the life cycle of a program. This will include work during unit development and procurement, throughout manufacturing and testing, and ultimately customer troubleshooting. You may also support Business Development, Proposals and Program Management functions as needed. Additionally, your work may be in a variety of technical disciplines to perform general troubleshooting, root cause analysis (RCA), develop manufacturing process improvements and design upgrades.
General Duties & Responsibilities:
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Observe, evaluate, and troubleshoot existing production problems
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Develop an overarching understanding of the manufacturing and testing processes that go into the vacuum hardware and RF / TWT / MPM testing
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Support operations personnel on day-to-day production needs
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Support program management on technical issues and customer relations
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Work as a key member of a multidisciplinary engineering team to develop or troubleshoot designs to meet performance, cost and schedule metrics
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Support bid and proposal activities, including analyzing customer specifications to evaluate feasibility and cost
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Anticipate and translate customer needs into engineering metrics
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Specify components and/or direct modification of products to ensure conformance with engineering design and performance specifications
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Communicate effectively with vendors, customers, and other L3Harris personnel
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Perform modeling and design engineer tasks on current or future products
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Ability to obtain and maintain an active DoD security clearance
Qualifications:
At least two years of relevant engineering experience that include production or development support of electromechanical, radar, RF, electron beam or vacuum equipment or systems is preferred. An advanced degree in a relevant field can be considered sufficient experience in lieu of profession experience. Other qualifications that will enable you to perform successfully in this position include:
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Knowledge of the design, manufacturing or testing of RF and/or vacuum technologies is a plus
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Experience working with engineering drawings or CAD software
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Experience with manufacturing a plus, specifically in the fields of dispenser cathodes, vacuum hardware, brazing, RF systems and general mechanical packaging.
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Understanding of lean manufacturing and continuous improvement principles a plus
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Effective verbal and written communication skills are needed, with experience presenting to internal and/or external customers a plus
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Experience in interpreting customer specifications into test requirement and comparing against test data
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Must be able to work well in a team environment and with individuals from a variety of areas within the company (such as program managers, engineers from multiple disciplines, business development staff, senior management, and manufacturing and test personnel)
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A bachelor’s degree in physics or an engineering discipline is required. A master’s degree in one of these disciplines a plus
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Understanding of computer modeling and simulation a plus
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Computer programming skills a plus
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Previous experience in root cause analysis efforts a bonus
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Proficiency using Microsoft Office applications is necessary