Mechanical Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Position Description: ANPC is a global supplier of precision approach guidance and area surveillance solutions aimed at improving the safety and capacity of civil and military aviation for customers on all seven continents. Our transponder-based solutions are designed to serve airfields where others cannot. We are a team of extraordinary professionals working together to perform an important mission to uniquely serve airports with terrain, obstacles and other challenges that no other business can provide.
Job Summary
We aren’t looking for a "cubicle-only" engineer. You’ll be the counterpart to the team on the production floor—the bridge between a high-level concept and a physical reality. We deal with hundreds of different tech branches, so if you get bored doing the same thing every day, you’ll love it here. You need to be as comfortable with a rapid prototype as you are with a formal requirements-based design.
Essential Job Functions
•\tFull-Lifecycle Design: Establish, maintain, and control both allocated and derived requirements. You’ll handle everything from "napkin-sketch" prototypes to rigorous, FAA designs with high design assurance.
•\tProduction Partnership: Work hand-in-hand with the folks on the production floor. This role requires strong interpersonal skills and an understanding of Design for Manufacturability (DFM) principles, ensuring our designs are practical to build.
•\tDocumentation & Precision: Act as both a Drafter and a Checker. You will create detailed design documentation, manage configuration control, and build/maintain accurate Bills of Materials (BOM).
•\tTechnical Analysis: Perform detailed mechanical design, including tolerance stack-up analysis and geometric tolerancing.
•\tSafety Analysis: Use structured processes like Failure Modes, Effects, and Analysis (DFMEA and PFMEA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Human Error Analysis (HEA), etc. to ensure compliance to design assurance levels.
•\tSimulation and Modeling – FEA to validate structural and thermal performance, developing testing procedures to validate prototypes, 3D printing.
•\t3D Modeling – Expertise in creating precise, digital models before making physical items, generating 2D drawings for manufacturing and outsourcing using software such as SOLIDWORKS.
•\tPrototyping & Testing: Procure materials and get your hands dirty constructing prototype assemblies. You will also support environmental test facilities, ensuring our gear survives the real world.
•\tEnvironmental Design and Verification – design and validation expertise to ensure specific shock, vibration, temperature and other ruggedization requirements.
•\tVerification: Generate verification procedures and conduct testing (e.g., stability and structural suitability) to ensure compliance.
•\tConfiguration Management and Process Assurance: PLM tools, baselines, change control, BOMs and Indented BOMs, CI definitions, non-conformance (MRB), Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA), Physical Configuration Audits (PCAs)
•\tParticipate in Configuration Control Boards (CCB) and Material Review Boards (MRB). You’ll also conduct peer reviews of other engineers' work to keep our standards high.
Education and Work Experience Requirements
•\tBachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering
•\t3-5 years of experience as a Mechanical Engineer, specifically in the design and development of electro-mechanical devices.
•\tExperience with SOLIDWORKS or other 3D computer-aided design and engineering software.
•\tStrong skills in problem solving, analytical thinking, methodical exploration of alternatives, breaking down problems into manageable chunks, prioritizing, creating innovative solutions
•\tExperience in Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GDT&E) – methods for ensuring parts fit, function and are manufacturable
•\tUnderstanding of Electromechanical Design – Electronic Assemblies (i.e., PCBs), Cable Assemblies, IPC Standards (IPC-J-STD-001, IPC-A-610)
•\tExperience with a formal PLM such as PDXpert
•\tKnowledge of agile development is helpful.
•\tISO 9001 compliance mindset.
•\tAttention to detail.
•\tExcellent writing, graphical, presentation and oral communication skills.
•\tAdaptability – the ability to quickly and comfortable adapt to advanced development endeavors where customer and voice of customer requirements are fluid, while still maintaining formal discipline and order.
Nice to Have
•\tExperience in DO-160 and DO-254 or similar
•\tKnowledge of IPC 610 and 620 standardsDue to the sensitive nature of the information and projects handled at this facility, this position requires U.S. citizenship. Candidates must be U.S. citizens to be considered for this role.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job in an office environment. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Essential functions may require maintaining the physical condition necessary for sitting, walking or standing for periods of time; operating a computer and keyboard; talk and hear at normal room levels; using hands to finger, grasp, and feel; repetitive motion; close visual acuity to prepare and analyze data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading; lift, push, carry, or pull up to 20 pounds.
Work environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job in an office environment. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate. Employee is exposed to the typical office environment with computers, printers and telephones.
In addition to base pay, our competitive total rewards package consists of:
•\t401(k) plan with match with immediate vesting.
•\tComprehensive suite of insurance benefits for employees (and their families) to include a variety of medical plan options (including an HSA with employer contribution), dental, vision, life and disability insurance, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Legal/Identity support plans, pet insurance.
•\tAccess to Flexible Spending Accounts (Medical and Dependent Care).
•\tGenerous paid time off including 4 weeks of vacation per year, 11 paid company holidays, which includes a winter company shutdown from Christmas to New Y