Sr. Systems Engineer - American Contract Group

This position is responsible for the following:

• Leading the design and development of electromechanical actuation systems for use in aircraft, missile, land and space products.
• Reviewing and interpreting customer requirements, both technical and programmatic, and assessing the level of effort required to fulfill them. 
• Decomposition and management of lower-level requirements for mechanical, electrical, software, firmware and test stand elements of actuation programs.
• System level modeling of actuation systems, including motors, controls etc.
• Support technical program managers to ensure that work breakdown and tasks are adequately set up to ensure schedule and cost performance tracking.
• Guide the development team to ensure design choices meet customer requirements.
• Leading proposal efforts, prototype development and other New Product Introduction (NPI) activities culminating in the transition of new products into production.

Business Development Support

• Travel as required to support customer needs (approximately 10-25%)
• Support proposal efforts and presentation of Kearfott capabilities
• Support and advance relationships with our customers and their engineering teams

Required Skills:

• Product Life Cycle Engineering
• Develops and maintains requirements and expectations for design of electromechanical actuation systems for use in aerospace and defense applications.
• Reviews customer specifications and assess compliance of design to the requirements.
• Process development and adherence to comply with FAA, EASA, or military certification requirements.
• Ensure system safety, reliability and maintainability considerations are adequately captured in the work packages.
• Decomposes sub-assembly specification requirements from end item specifications, using DOORS.
• Development and validation of performance models using Matlab/Simulink, PLECS or similar tools.
• Ensures that the design activity of all sub-functions (mechanical, electrical, software/firmware, test) can be successfully integrated to ensure the system meets customer requirements.
• Support cost proposal activity including manufacturing and design cost assessment.
• Lead development efforts for customer funded projects as well as IR&D projects.
• Perform and coordinate design analysis.
• Support the preparation of project schedules and perform other project management tasks as required.
• Supports the preparation of formal proposal documents in response to RFP’s.

Critical Competencies

• Understanding of manufacturing and design trade-offs (practical implementation of designs).
• Flight controls understanding or experience is a plus.
• Extensive understanding of the dynamic behavior of electromechanical systems.
• Experience with regulations, certification standards, design assurance and systems standards such FAR 25, ARP4754, DO-254, DO-178C, MIL-STD-882E is a plus.
• DXL scripting for DOORS is a plus.
• Customer centric attitude.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent presentation skills and presentation preparation (design reviews, marketing presentations, etc.)
• Systems design, development and integration experience.
• Ability to lead effectively in a cross functional team environment.
• Ability to effectively communicate, in writing and verbally, across functional areas.
• Drives for results; action oriented.
• Continuously improves in all aspects.

Education & Experience

• Minimum of 10 years in an aerospace motion control engineering and manufacturing environment required.
• B S. in Systems, Mechanical, Electrical or Aerospace Engineering required, M.S. is preferred.
• New product development experience required.
• Solid understanding of aerospace and defense markets and requirements preferred.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the US, visa sponsorship not available.