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The role will support R&D design and development functions for East Greenwich’s R&D facility for development efforts. This position will be responsible for the effective use the design tools to design, document and maintain configuration control for early development of R&D battery systems for Defense applications. The position will work within a multidisciplinary team of Scientists and Engineers and will adhere to company policies and procedures.

This position will coordinate multiple functions to deliver these products to a wide variety of commercial and military customers such NASA, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Boeing General Electric and many others. This position requires interaction with internal and external customers at all levels of system design/development, components, quality engineering. To apply you must be a U.S. Persons.

• Support all thermal and mechanical development phases including design, design refinement, validation, and pilot production of mechanical parts.
• Work closely with the R&D teams to determine battery design and mechanical characteristics from early development through scale up
• Interface with multidisciplinary team of Engineers and Scientists
• Work with internal production team to develop processes/tooling for pilot scale manufacturing.
• Coordinate and execute product development trials. Summarize and present respective results, with conclusions, and recommendations.
• Develop assembly instructions and specifications, along with other engineering documents.
• Generate drawings, BOMs and follow EaglePicher’s Document Control methods
• Determine the best practices and most efficient method of achieving a consistent design/drawing package while maintaining configuration control.
• Perform tolerance stack-ups and while calculating dimensions, weight limitations and requirements in materials.
• Work integrally with both the electrical design and mechanical hardware to communicate technical ideas for accomplishing environmental testing involving vibration, shock, altitude, acceleration and temperature/humidity testing.
• Participate in the resolution of hardware problems or process non-compliances working with supervisors of Quality, Engineering and Production.
• Experience with multiple welding and joining technologies is preferred

• U.S. Persons.
• Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing/Engineering technology, or related discipline.
• 0-7 years experience in R&D or Product Development.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, oral and written.
• Able to contribute to collaborative team environment.
• Self-motivated and hands-on. Detail oriented and able to manage multiple tasks.
• Fluency with 3D CAD modeling using SolidWorks.
• Experience in FEA (ANSYS) and other numerical modeling methods will be helpful.
• Skilled in use of Microsoft Office applications (Project, Excel, Word Outlook).
• This role may require additional duties and/or assignments as designated by management

HIRING PREFERENCES

In addition to meeting the basic requirements, the most successful candidate will also have:

• Defense or Aerospace industry experience and familiarity with ERP Systems and Document Control Systems
• ISO 9001:2015 and AS9100D certifications and stage gate development processes is highly desirable.
• Motivated, passionate self-starter with a track record of delivering above and beyond expectations.
• A can-do attitude, passion to succeed and an ability and willingness to wear multiple hats as needed
• Solid problem solver, exceptionally well organized and detail oriented
• Proven ability to handle more than one project simultaneously
• Strong interpersonal, communication, writing, and presentation skills.

• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance;
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  10 paid holidays and PTO;
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  Matching 401K;
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  Annual Profit Sharing;
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  Tuition reimbursement;
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  Dependent scholarship programs.