Fuel Hydraulics System Engineer

Job Title

Fuel Hydraulics System Engineer

Sterling Heights, MI

Up to $53hr depending on experience

9/80 work week
- Off every other Friday!

Come join our team! We currently have an exciting possible Temp-to-Perm opportunity in Sterling Heights, MI for a Fuel Hydraulics System Engineer with 5-7 years of experience to design and release mechanical and fluid components and subsystems for military ground vehicles and experience supporting prototype and/or production build activities.

• This Auxiliary Systems Mechanical Engineering role will design and release mechanical and fluid components and subsystems for military ground vehicles.
• This role will focus on Hydraulics and Fuel.
• This includes the application of engineering principles to generate designs to solve complex problems and provide support for the build, test, and production of the designs.
• The system level areas of focus may include hydraulic actuation and pneumatics, automatic fire suppression, fuel, camera cleaning, LRU cooling distribution, winch, and fairlead.
• Other possible assignments for general mechanical may include shock/vibration isolation and mounting of devices, stowage equipment integration, seating and crew accommodations, battery enclosures, and driver controls.

• Mechanical & Auxiliary design engineering of fluid and distributed systems including fuel, automatic fire suppression, camera cleaning, LRU cooling, and hydraulic and pneumatics to meet customer requirements and specifications.
• Develops and integrates components into vehicle platforms to meet vehicle performance requirements including human factors, safety, environmental, ballistic and mine blast requirements.
• Conducts design, integration and analysis of mechanical components, mechanisms, and shock attenuation systems for mounting devices.
• Applies the mechanics of materials, material selection, welding, and fabrication principles for mechanical components and complex welded brackets, mounting provisions.
• Supports various projects by performing analysis & design, drawing/model mark-ups, tolerance stacks along with generating source data for engineering changes.
• Responsible for writing material requests and shop work requests, track delivery and stock of parts, participate in integration reviews, fit checks, and author reports.
• Provides support to prototype, production, and sustainment vehicle efforts and follow-up, technical corrective action formulation, troubleshooting and redesign activities.
• Present design concepts and program status to functional and program management in a clear, concise manner and in the context of risk management.
• Direct and oversee CAD model and drawing development.
• Conduct failure analysis, produce required corrective action, and troubleshoot and redesign activities when necessary.
• Will work on customer needs for the vehicle, formulate the subsystem and component requirements, and meet contract expectations.
• May occasionally be responsible for technical presentations to other engineering groups, the customer and/or leadership.
• May work with different engineering functions of the organization on various programs.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• 5 to 7 years in a related role is desired.
• Demonstrated understanding of mechanical engineering principles.
• Experience supporting prototype and/or production build activities.
• Demonstrated experience developing fluid system functional architecture, schematics, and analytical models and troubleshooting.
• Experience with root cause and corrective activities.
• Ability to travel up to 20% to other facilities and military installations if needed.
• Ability to work occasional weekends, evenings and overtime is required.
• Effective 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.
• This position may require the candidate to be able to climb on/off, work in, and work around military vehicles. (Must be shorter than 6' 4" and weigh less than 260lbs).

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