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Job Title: Lead, Designer

Job Code: 33702

Job Location: Huntsville, AL 

Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

The Missile Propulsion CAD Services team at the Missile Solutions segment of L3Harris is currently seeking an experienced highly motivated Product Definition specialist that will be responsible for generating and verifying product definition supporting the design engineers across MSSL sites.

Provide design support and leadership to engineers on technical projects and/or products, maintaining, organizing, compiling, and manipulating technical data. Prepares PTC Creo CAD models and associative engineering drawings (product definition) using PTC Windchill PLM System. Performs mathematical calculations and simple tolerance analysis per engineering specifications. Recommend alternative design solutions to problems and obstacles.  Checks engineering product definition for compliance and conformity to established standards, specifications, and design directives.

Essential Functions:

• Under limited general direction and following established procedures in accordance with contractual requirements and Missile Propulsion policy and procedures, this position performs engineering design assignments for preparation of engineering design documents and maintaining the design disclosure. Plans and conducts work requiring judgment in the independent evaluation, selection and substantial adaptation and modification of standard techniques, procedures, and criteria. Assignments require broad knowledge of precedents in the specialty and excellent knowledge of principles and practices of related specialties, requiring a wide application of advanced principles, theories and concepts in the field plus a working knowledge of other related disciplines.
• Performs design Verification (checking) and calculations to validate design requirements. Verification of Product Definition (Checking) includes models, drawings and PLM attributes and relationships.
• Project leadership for the management of designs requiring tracking assignments, percent complete and drawing release schedules for specific design release packages.
• Provide technical guidance to less senior designers and to design support personnel. Provides data in support of Verification Metrics for design.
• Ability to obtain a US Security Clearance.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 9 years of prior design experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior design experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior design experience.
• 7+ years of experience with CAD systems (Creo 10.0 preferred) along with experience using CAD database management and PLM tools (Windchill preferred).

Preferred Additional Skills: 

• Expert knowledge of geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (ASME Y14.5). ASME Certification in GD&T is a plus. Ability to read and interpret product definition and related specifications. Electronic markup tools and the ability to work paperless is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrate effective interpersonal and communication skills and be able to operate effectively in a team environment.

• Knowledge of solid propulsion systems design and manufacturing methods is a plus. 
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel and PowerPoint). 

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