Harness Design Specialist

Overview

Are you passionate about human space exploration, understanding the origins of the universe, and working with a passionate and diverse team to make a difference? If you are, we need you! We need your talent, teamwork, and energy to help us achieve great things that inspire people all over the globe. We need you to bring creative ideas and diverse backgrounds to help us envision, shape, and deliver systems that will enable the exploration of space while benefiting people here on Earth.

We are excited about what we do, and we need you on our team as we take on exciting challenges for NASA’s pursuits in deep space exploration. As NASA’s largest engineering solutions provider working together with NASA at centers across the United States. We have exciting opportunities and partnerships molding the future of space exploration that have led to the need for a Harness Design Specialist at Barrios Technology.

Building on more than four decades of experience in providing innovative integration solutions for government and commercial space programs, Barrios offers an extensive range of engineering, software, and related technology integration services in support of the aerospace community. As a woman-owned and operated small business, we are a people-focused company that supports professional development, while working to ensure that you maintain a healthy work-life balance.

Barrios employees actively participate in the growth of the commercial spaceflight industry through our partnerships with companies leading commercial space development, as well as successfully supporting NASA as our primary government customer. Our long history supporting Low Earth Orbit (LEO) on the International Space Station, and now Commercial LEO, lays the groundwork for future missions to the Moon through our work on Orion, Gateway, and the Space Launch System.

The Harness Design Specialist will:

• Assist in harness design from concept and component selection, through to production, qualification, and system integration
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary stakeholders to gather harness design objectives and requirements
• Develop harness design solutions within a CAD environment, and manage technical trade studies to meet stakeholder objectives as well as adhere to internal design standards and requirements
• Generate electrical schematics to support both flight and qualification designs
• Perform analysis and physical testing (both mechanical and electrical) of harnessing with respect to thermal, loads, vibration, and shock to ensure full qualification for flight
• Create and release on-schedule appropriate harnessing manufacturing documentation and drawings
• Perform R&D investigations and trade studies to push wire harness design to new boundaries in terms of mass and cost savings
• Perform all other assigned duties

This position is posted at multiple levels. Depending on the candidate’s experience, position requirements and business needs, we reserve the right to consider candidates at any level for which this position has been advertised.

REQUIRED EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE/

SKILLS:

• BS degree in Engineering from an accredited Engineering school, plus five (5) years of related experience

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• BS Degree in Engineering from an accredited Engineering school, may be expected to have a related Master's Degree, plus ten (10) years of related experience

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• BS Degree in Engineering from an accredited Engineering school, may be expected to have a related Master's or higher degree, plus fifteen (15) years of related experience

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• BS Degree in Engineering from an accredited Engineering school and (20) years of engineering experience

* MS Degree in Engineering from an accredited Engineering school can take the place of 2 years of appropriate work experience

• Engineering or operations experience working on Space systems
• Five (5) years of electro-mechanical wire harness design experience
• Proficiency with CAD and Windchill
• Experience with wire harness 3D design, wire harness installations drawings and form board creation, wiring diagrams, 3D modeling of complex top-level assemblies, 3D modeling, and analysis of avionics enclosures…