Job Title: Specialist, Mechanical Engineering Job Code: 38356 Job Location: Salt Lake City, UT Job Schedule: 9/80 Employees work 9 out of every 14 days- totaling 80 hours working- and have every other Friday off Job Description: Join the L3Harris Technologies, Spectrum Superiority, team as a Mechanical Engineering Specialist, focus on Design for Excellence for advanced communication equipment supporting defense applications. In this role, you will be responsible for the mechanical design and producibility of mission-critical hardware, throughout the lifecycle of the product. Essential Functions: <ul type="disc"> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Develop optimized mechanical solutions for ruggedized defense communication equipment, including enclosures, chassis, thermal solutions, cable routing, and other hardware assemblies, with a focus on size, weight, and suitability for harsh military environments.</li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Apply Design for Excellence (DfX) principles, including manufacturability, assembly, test, reliability, maintainability, and sustainment, to improve product robustness, environmental performance, and compliance with program requirements.</li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including electrical, systems, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and program management, to drive design solutions that balance cost, performance, and producibility.</li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Create and maintain mechanical design documentation, including 3D models, engineering drawings, tolerance analyses, and engineering change packages.</li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Partner with internal teams, suppliers, and manufacturing organizations to resolve producibility challenges and improve design maturity for production readiness.</li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Support prototype builds, design verification and validation testing, root cause investigations, and corrective action implementation.</li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Contribute to product qualification and risk-reduction efforts related to shock, vibration, thermal performance, and environmental requirements.</li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Must be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance.</li> </ul> Qualifications: <ul type="disc"> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent and minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience.</li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience.</li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience. </li> </ul> Preferred Additional Skills: <ul> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Experience with SIEMENS Teamcenter and NX</li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Experience with military standards, such as MIL-STD-810.</li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Experience with Open System Standards, such as VITA and SOSA.</li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Experience with SAE AS6500.</li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Experience with ASME Y14.5.</li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Experience Earned Value Management (EVM)</li> </ul> #LI-JD3

Specialist, Mechanical Engineering (Salt Lake City, UT, US, 84116) @ L3Harris Technologies, Inc.

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