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Mechanical Engineer III

honeywell2-pilot
Kansas, MO Full Time
POSTED ON 4/7/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/7/2026

Innovate to solve the world's most important challenges

Honeywell is a Fortune 100 company that invents and manufactures technologies to address critical challenges linked to global macrotrends such as safety, security, productivity, global urbanization and energy. With approximately 129,000 employees worldwide, including more than 19,000 engineers and scientists, Honeywell has an unrelenting focus on quality, delivery, value, and technology in everything they make and do.  Honeywell has been named a Top 100 Global Innovator for seven years in a row, recognizing the company’s global reach of portfolio and invention influence.

In Kansas City, Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies (FM&T) manages and operates the U.S. Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Kansas City National Security Campus. This state-of-the-art engineering, manufacturing and sourcing facility produces a wide array of intricate components to deliver trusted national security products and government services primarily for the NNSA. Honeywell FM&T’s culture of integrity, commitment and continuous improvement enables them to deliver responsive, collaborative, and innovative management and technology services and products that translate into cutting edge solutions to complex national security issues.

***This position will be in Kansas City, MO***

Summary:

The Kansas City National Security Campus is a U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration facility managed and operated by Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technology (FM&T).  Our primary business is to manufacture sophisticated mechanical, electrical, and engineered material components for our nation’s defense system.  Our goal is to seek innovative solutions that surpass our customers’ expectations.  To accomplish this, we research, develop, and deploy some of the most advanced design and manufacturing technologies in use in the United States today.

  • The position being sought is a Mechanical Engineer III supporting firing systems and other major electrical assemblies
  • The selected candidate acts as an authority in the field of Opto-Mechanical Engineering
  • Plans, conducts, and coordinates a broad range of complex professional research, development, design, technology, manufacturing, or quality assignments requiring extensive knowledge of advanced techniques and principles and their application to specific projects
  • Works under administrative direction only with considerable latitude for unreviewed actions or decisions
  • This position will require both strategic and tactical thinking to support challenging technical activities
  • Interaction and partnerships between Program Management, NNSA, design agencies, and most internal departments will be required
  • Technical leadership of and direction for all aspects of opto-mechanical systems and possibly other optical assemblies not only within the assigned project and department, but also on a plant-wide consulting basis
  • Provide technical leadership in the design of lasers, optical assemblies, fiber injection systems and simulation activities; plan and lead engineering laboratory activities in construction of prototype devices; provide feedback and recommendations to design agency counterparts regarding design validation tests

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