Specialist, Thermal Engineer

Job Title: Specialist, Thermal EngineerJob Code: 45273Job Location: Palm Bay, FloridaJob Schedule: 9/80 - Employees work 9 out of every 14 days - totaling 80 hours worked (Every Other Friday Off)Job Description:The Strategic Missions Division specializes in developing disruptive, next-generation technologies for the U.S. Government. Come work for us and build hardware that matters. Team is seeking a thermal analyst to work with a cross-functional team to assist in development, design, and implementation of high-consequence electromechanical systems. We are seeking a self-motivated individual contributor with strong thermal analysis skills. The position will follow the product from conceptualization through hardware integration and test, executing the thermal analysis. In this role you will perform analysis of custom hardware using first order thermodynamics and fluid mechanics principles, along with conjugate heat transfer simulations (CFD), to predict system and component level thermal responses.Essential Functions:• Works under general supervision on tasking that is typically assigned with high level requirements, may be responsible for entire projects within job area. Some derivation of requirements may be required to support the design.• Leverages prior experience to support designs. Actively seeks feedback from SME's and other knowledgeable colleagues as needed.• Knows when to question requirements to determine real product needs• Actively seeks out information by interfacing with external disciplines as required to accomplish assigned tasking• Assists with new hire and intern onboarding, including support of career fairs and university outreach. Communicates applicable processes and standard operating procedures as well as their importance and benefits.• Establishes working relationships in other disciplines and departments such as operations, quality, and procurement• Effectively documents and communicates design intent.• Provides regular status reporting of accomplishments, issues, and challenges as well as potential risks directly applicable to current tasking• Demonstrated ability and creativity to propose multiple conceptual design solutions• Uses knowledge and experience to derive requirements and make technical assumptions, typically within own discipline but also providing input to other disciplines• Supported by experienced team members for guidance and feedback• Supports execution of tasking that may be critical to the success of the program• Identifies issues or risks relative to direct tasking and proactively alerts team leadership• Directly contributes to the achievement of critical milestones associated with specific projects (PDR, CDR, TRR, etc)• Schedule, cost, and technical input at the major subsystem level• Identifies and submits process improvement initiatives relevant to daily work• Responsible to direct and review the work of new graduate engineers and designers and technicians.• Exhibits a high level of engagement and ownership in the successful completion of assigned tasking• Ability to obtain US government security clearance.Qualifications:• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.Preferred Additional Skills:• Comfortable collecting technical concepts and presenting them to program leadership• Ability to work on-site at one of the following locations in a lab and hardware-development environment: Palm Bay, Florida; Chantilly, Virginia; or Carlsbad, California• First order analysis of heating/cooling thermal management systems (conduction, convection). I.E Heat Transfer 101• Experience in CFD software packages: FloEFD is preferred. Ansys, Icepack, StarCCM, OpenFOAM, Flotherm, etc. acceptable.• 2+ years experience in thermal analysis for packaging electronics including design for and testing to military environments (i.e. temperature, vibration, shock, etc.)• Experience in 3D CAD modeling – PTC Creo, Catia, NX, Fusion 360, Solidworks, etc.• Excellent people skills, with experience working and collaborating in a multi-disciplinary, diverse, and dynamic team environment.• Excellent communication skills (written, verbal, & presentation)• Strong hands-on capabilities, to include integration of mechanisms and products.• Active Top Secret or Top Secret/SCI clearance. A clearance active within the past two years may be considered, subject to program eligibility requirements.• Active polygraph.#LI-FS1