Senior Associate, Mechanical Engineering

About the job

Job Title: Senior Associate, Mechanical Engineering****

Job Code: 43940****

Job Location: Salt Lake City, UT****

*Job Schedule: 9/80 Employees work 9 out of every 14 days- totaling 80 hours working- and have every other Friday of**f

Job Description:

Join the L3Harris Technologies, Spectrum Superiority, team as a Mechanical Engineering Specialist, focus on Design for Excellence for advanced communication equipment supporting defense applications. In this role, you will be responsible for the mechanical design and producibility of mission-critical hardware, throughout the lifecycle of the product.

Essential Functions:

**- Develop optimized mechanical solutions for ruggedized defense communication equipment, including enclosures, chassis, thermal solutions, cable routing, and other hardware assemblies, with a focus on size, weight, and suitability for harsh military environments.

• Apply Design for Excellence (DfX) principles, including manufacturability, assembly, test, reliability, maintainability, and sustainment, to improve product robustness, environmental performance, and compliance with program requirements.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including electrical, systems, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and program management, to drive design solutions that balance cost, performance, and producibility.

• Create and maintain mechanical design documentation, including 3D models, engineering drawings, tolerance analyses, and engineering change packages.

• Partner with internal teams, suppliers, and manufacturing organizations to resolve producibility challenges and improve design maturity for production readiness.

• Support prototype builds, design verification and validation testing, root cause investigations, and corrective action implementation.

• Contribute to product qualification and risk-reduction efforts related to shock, vibration, thermal performance, and environmental requirements.

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance.**

Qualifications:

**To be eligible, applicants must be pursuing a master's degree Mechanical/Aerospace/Aeronautical/Civil Engineering or have completed their master's degree within the last 12 months, regardless of age.