Mechanical Engineer, Senior

AMERICAN SYSTEMS is an employee-owned federal government contractor supporting national priority programs through our strategic solutions in the areas of Information Technology, Test & Evaluation, Program Mission Support, Engineering & Analysis, and Training.

Responsible for providing guidance and expertise in mechanical engineering to design complex mechanical equipment and systems, and to investigate, evaluate and develop new applications for existing equipment and systems.
• Determines theoretical principles involved and applying advanced analytical and investigative methods and techniques.
• Analyzes assigned tasks to provide estimates of manpower and material required to complete.
• Prepares schedules for accomplishing tasks within estimates.
• Supervises and coordinates technicians in fabrication and installation of complex mechanical and related electronic equipment and systems.
• May direct field operation and maintenance activities of mechanical equipment/systems installations.
• Evaluates operational systems and designs modification to eliminate causes of malfunctions or changes in system requirements.
• Develops new applications requiring appreciable originality and ingenuity, and complex test procedures for equipment and systems which are significantly different from existing designs.
• Plans, organizes and conducts the development of each assignment; coordinates manpower assigned to each activity and coordinates the activities of group involved in various stages of overall program to ensure effective integration.
• Provides technical guidance to personnel involved with producing design fabrication drawings.
• Reviews and corrects drawings to ensure proper engineering techniques and required specification have been utilized.
• Develops, releases and maintains documentation in accordance with company and contractual requirements.
• Reviews, writes and edits reports such as evaluation plans, test results, technical manuals, etc. to provide recommendations, conclusions, and other data.

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Math, Physics, or Computer Science
• Active Secret security clearance or the ability to obtain a Secret security clearance.
• U.S. Citizenship Required for the purposes of obtaining/holding a U.S. security clearance
• Five years experience with ship alterations engineering requirements
• Seven years of collective experience in:
  • Modeling and simulation of new designs as well as facilitating changes to existing designs using Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM) tools and software
  • Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software
  • Weight & Moment analysis
  • Static analysis
  • Commercial and military specification material selection
  • Materials alternatives analysis