Mechanical Engineer - Fluid Systems

Waltonen Engineering is actively seeking a Mechanical Engineer – Fluid Systems to join our team!

This position is for a mechanical engineer to design, develop and release fluid and distributed systems in vehicles. The primary areas of focus of this position will include problem resolution for existing vehicle platforms in production. Implement design changes and updates as a result of manufacturing, supply chain, or obsolescence issues for mechanical components in fuel systems, hydraulics, pneumatics, and automatic fire suppression systems. Depending on workload demands, this person may also work in other areas such as driver controls, shock/vibration mounting, stowage, and other mechanical subsystems.

Responsibilities

• Address problem reports and implement corrective action for subsystems on vehicles in production.
• Design fuel, hydraulic and other fluid systems and components to meet vehicle performance requirements including human factors, safety, environmental and mine blast requirements.
• Apply fluid dynamics and hydraulic system classical calculations while also performing fluid subsystem modeling and simulation in order to characterize system performance.
• Apply mechanics of materials, material selection, welding, and fabrication principles for mechanical components and complex welded brackets, mounting provisions.
• Decompose vehicle performance requirements to perform system analysis and select appropriate power components such as pumps and motors and conduct detailed design of fluid system custom components.
• Generate key characteristics, component specifications and perform component selection for supplier purchased parts.
• Support various projects by doing analysis & design, drawing mark-ups, tolerance stacks and generating source data for engineering changes.
• Write material requests and shop work requests, track delivery and stock of parts, participate in integration reviews, fit checks, and write reports.
• Provide support to prototype and production vehicle build and follow-up, technical corrective action formulation, troubleshooting and redesign activities.
• Present design concepts and program status to functional and program management.
• Write test plans and perform testing and evaluation of fluid system components in the GDLS hydraulics lab.
• Direct and oversee CAD model and drawing development.
• Conduct failure analysis and corrective action along with responsible for technical writing and presentations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• 1-3 years plus in a related role is desired.
• Solid modeling experience with NX and Creo desired.
• Experience with Teamcenter and Vis Mockup a plus.
• Ability to travel up to 10% to other facilities and military installations if needed.
• Extensive experience with vehicle fuel tanks and delivery systems, hydraulic power systems and pneumatic systems is required.
• Demonstrated experience developing fluid system functional architecture, schematics, analytical models and troubleshooting is required.
• Only United States Citizens can be considered
• Must possess or be able to obtain security clearance
• Candidates must be local or willing to relocate without assistance*

Benefits

• Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Vacation and Holiday pay
• Employer matching 401K
• Hybrid work schedule after 90 days for eligible positions
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Flexible Spending Programs (FSAs)
• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability insurance
• Employee Referral Program
• Additional Voluntary Benefit Programs
• Off-site company events & Employee Luncheons

Who are we?

Waltonen Engineering, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and will consider qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, marital status, weight, height, or the presence of a non-job-related medical condition or handicap.