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Mechanical Engineer- Mechanical & Fluid Systems

Sterling Heights, MI

Contract Position

Moseley Technical is supporting the global leader in the design, development, production, support, and sustainment of tracked and wheeled military equipment. As part of this team, you are keeping our allies and soldiers safe every day on the ground.

If you want to work on meaningful projects with an employee first company,

we invite you to join our team.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and releasefluid and distributed systemsin military ground vehicles.
• Problem resolution for existing vehicle platforms in production. Implement design changes and updates as a result of manufacturing, supply chain, or obsolescence issues for mechanical components in fuel systems, hydraulics, pneumatics, and automatic fire suppression systems.
• Work in other areas such as driver controls, shock/vibration mounting, stowage, and other mechanical subsystems.
• Address problem reports and implement corrective action for subsystems on vehicles in production. 
• Design fuel, hydraulic and other fluid systems and components to meet vehicle performance requirements including human factors, safety, environmental and mine blast requirements.
• Apply fluid dynamics and hydraulic system classical calculations while also performing fluid subsystem modeling and simulation in order to characterize system performance.
• Apply mechanics of materials, material selection, welding, and fabrication principles for mechanical components and complex welded brackets, mounting provisions.
• Decompose vehicle performance requirements in order to perform system analysis and select appropriate power components such as pumps and motors and conduct detailed design of fluid system custom components.
• Generate key characteristics, component specifications and perform component selection for supplier purchased parts.
• Support various projects by doing analysis & design, drawing mark-ups, tolerance stacks and generating source data for engineering changes.
• Write material requests and shop work requests, track delivery and stock of parts, participate in integration reviews, fit checks, and write reports.
• Provide support to prototype and production vehicle build and follow-up, technical corrective action formulation, troubleshooting and redesign activities.
• Present design concepts and program status to functional and program management.
• Write test plans and perform testing and evaluation of fluid system components in the GDLS hydraulics lab.
• Direct and oversee CAD model and drawing development.
• Conduct failure analysis and corrective action along with responsible for technical writing and presentations.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• 1-3 years plus in a related role is desired.
• Solid modeling experience with NX and Creo desired.
• Experience with Teamcenter and Vis Mockup a plus.
• Ability to travel up to 10% to other facilities and military installations if needed.
• Desired Experience:
  • This position may require eligibility to obtain a US security clearance. (Non-US Citizens may not be eligible to obtain a security clearance)
  • Extensive experience with vehicle fuel tanks and delivery systems, hydraulic power systems and pneumatic systems is required. 
  • Demonstrated experience developing fluid system functional architecture, schematics, analytical models and troubleshooting is required. 
  • Previous experience working on ground combat Vehicles desired.
  • This position may require the candidate to be able to climb on/off, work in, and work around military vehicles.
  • Ability to work occasional weekends, evenings and overtime is required.
  • Strong communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills are required.
  • Must be able to work independently on component and system designs but also be able to work well in a collaborative environment for vehicle integration. 

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What to Expect

• Applicants selected for employment will be required to pass a pre-employment drug screening and background investigation which may include education, criminal and work history verifications.
• Accepted applicants will have the opportunity to be eligible for benefits, including medical and supplemental insurance and a 401K. Appreciation and gratitude for employees is a hallmark of organizations with low turnover.

Moseley Technical Services, Inc. is an AA/EEO/Veterans/Disabled Employer.

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To apply, send resume to: resumes@moseleytechnical.com

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