Senior Principal Design Engineer - Electrical

Senior Principal Design Engineer - Electrical

03 Aug 2024
Maine, Saco 00000 Saco USA

Senior Principal Design Engineer - Electrical

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GD-OTS is the leading manufacturer of weapons systems used by every branch of the military on helicopters, airplanes, and battleships. GD-OTS specializes in the design of Gatling gun systems, turreted systems, electro-optical fire controls, and several other distinguished product lines. This position will have hands on experience with supporting programs that directly support the US warfighter. Major responsibilities of this role are the electrical aspects of designing, procurement, testing, and maintainability of weapon systems. This role is focused on bringing legacy designs to the modern era.This role will require working under limited supervision with a tightknit program team to provide design concepts, perform detail design from product inception through final delivery, support test, and quickly respond to any type of issue. The role will require an engineer of many hats that works on a broad range of programs with a variety of applications.This job may require periodic travel to sister GD-OTS facilities and suppliers across the United States.Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Develop product improvements to bring new technology and capabilities to legacy products

Production engineering support activities including real time troubleshooting and problem resolution, incorporating formal root cause analysis and corrective action

Develop test equipment and test procedures

Generate definition of performance requirements for electrical systems

Verification of designs using modeling, simulation, analysis, and test

Generate documentation including formal reports, drawings, specifications

Desired Experience:

Broad knowledge of electrical applications

Modernizing legacy analog and digital designs

System integration and test in a production environment

Rigorous adherence to a production process including configuration management and counterfeit avoidance

Derivation and documentation of subsystem requirements

Designing military systems that comply with standards and specifications

Required:

This position requires a BSEE minimum

Solid working knowledge in electrical and electronic design and development experience – ideally in power supplies, analog circuits, printed circuit boards, and test equipment.

Experience using scripting languages such as MATLAB or LabVIEW.

Hands-on experience using computer aided engineering tools to support schematic design and PCB design, such as ORCAD, Mentor, or Cadence.

Prefer candidates with experience in MIL-STD design, development, and documentation.

Experience in software development using languages such as C and PERL a plus.

Experience: A minimum of 10 years of experience is required for this position. Typical experience levels for this position range from 12 to 30 years of relevant experience.Desired Education: Master’s degree in engineering.Requisition ID: 2020-11350 Street: 291 North Street

Job Details

  • ID
    JC4501355
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  • Full-time
  • Salary
    N/A
  • Hiring Company
    General Dynamics Ordnance & Tactical Systems
  • Date
    2020-08-04
  • Deadline
    2020-10-03
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