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L3Harris Technologies · NY, US
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About the Role
L3Harris is seeking a Lead, Mechanical Engineering to provide technical and organizational leadership for the development, integration, delivery, and support of Airborne EO/IR solutions. This hybrid management/technical contributor role includes functional leadership of the mechanical engineering team supporting the full system lifecycle, as well as direct contribution to mission-critical programs. The role ensures alignment with customer needs, contractual obligations, and organizational objectives, working closely with cross-functional teams to design, develop, build, and test high-performance solutions.
Responsibilities
- Lead a mechanical engineering team in support of program, functional, and business objectives.
- Provide day-to-day direction, prioritization, and coordination of engineering activities across organizations.
- Serve as a technical contributor to Airborne Solutions programs, applying engineering expertise to design, development, integration, verification, troubleshooting, and technical execution.
- Translate customer and program requirements into executable engineering plans, deliverables, staffing needs, and performance expectations.
- Ensure engineering work products satisfy technical requirements, quality standards, contractual obligations, and program milestones.
- Partner with business leadership to balance technical execution, staffing, cost, schedule, and risk.
- Support technical planning, basis of estimate development, proposal activities, and resource forecasting for new and existing efforts.
- Review and approve technical approaches, engineering deliverables, and key decisions in accordance with organizational processes.
- Support cross-functional collaboration among engineering, operations, quality, supply chain, manufacturing, and program office teams to resolve issues and maintain execution alignment.
- Mentor, coach, and develop engineering personnel through technical guidance, performance management, and career development.
- Support workforce planning, recruiting, retention, succession planning, and skills development to maintain organizational capability and capacity.
- Support design reviews, technical reviews, readiness reviews, customer meetings, and internal status reviews.
- Promote a culture of accountability, inclusion, continuous improvement, and technical excellence.
- Ensure compliance with company policies, engineering processes, regulatory requirements, and customer commitments.
- Design, develop, modify and evaluate complicated and difficult mechanical and electro-mechanical components, sub-systems and systems.
- Prepare design specifications, analyses and recommendations for presentation and approval through a formal review process.
- Analyze, develop, and recommend design approaches to meet production requirements for new or improved products and/or processes.
- Interface with optical, electrical, software and system engineers, providing engineering analysis (structural/thermal) and CAD design from product inception to released fabrication drawings.
- Provide support for product development and proposals for conceptual CAD layouts and cost estimation.
- Complete documentation and BOMs to support life cycle of new or improved designs.
- Provide support for existing product designs through the production cycle by incorporating engineering change orders (ECO).
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
- Active DoD Secret Clearance.
Skills
- Progressive engineering experience, including exposure to defense, aerospace, avionics, mission systems, C4ISR, weapons, space, radar, communications, or other complex regulated environments
- Leadership experience managing technical teams, engineering organizations, or major engineering work scopes
- Ability to balance strategic technical leadership with day-to-day execution in a fast-paced, high-consequence Aerospace & Defense environment
- Experience with requirements decomposition, functional analysis, architecture development, interface management, integration, verification, validation, and configuration control
- Development experience involving complex EO/IR systems such as optics, visible/infrared detector arrays, detector cryogenic coolers, digital/analog video, signal processing electronics, solid-state lasers, pointing and stabilization instruments, control algorithms, search/track algorithms and image reconstruction/exploitation algorithms
- Strong interpersonal, facilitation, written, and verbal communication skills with technical and non-technical audiences
- Strong organizational and multitasking skills, with the ability to manage priorities, resolve conflicts, and meet deadlines
- SolidWorks modeling and drafting experience.
- Basic knowledge of geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) and ANSI Y14.5.
- Knowledge of analysis techniques including linear finite element (FE) stress modeling, heat transfer, and computational fluid dynamics (CFD).
- Experience with advanced shock and vibration analysis and design for fatigue.
- System development considering machine design and theory of mechanisms, thermal design considerations, and materials selection for demanding environments and applications.
- Knowledge of mechanical part fabrication processes.
- Experience in designs of electric motors, gears, bearings, and flexures
- Electronics packaging knowledge
- Stabilization, guidance and control
- Hardware integration and troubleshooting
- Strong mechanical and geo-spatial comprehension skills
- Control system modeling using Matlab/Simulink
Location
- Rochester, NY
Work Type
- Hybrid
- 9/80 work schedule
Experience Level
- Lead
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree
- Graduate Degree
Salary/Compensations
- $106,000 - $197,000
Benefits
- Health and disability insurance
- 401(k) match
- Flexible spending accounts
- EAP
- Education assistance
- Parental leave
- Paid time off
- Company-paid holidays
About the Company
- L3Harris is a defense contractor.
Equal Opportunity
- L3Harris is an EEO/AA employer.