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Salary: $100,000 - $150,000 per year
A bit about us:
We are an engineering company that is dedicated to ensuring the safety of people in hostile environments through high-performance products. With a global reach, we offer protection solutions for various platforms, including vehicles, maritime, aircraft, and personnel systems, tailored to different operational needs.
Why join us?
- Full Benefits
- PTO
- R&D Engineering Environment
- Develop products that save lives!
Job Details
SUMMARY:
As our Project Engineer, you must have knowledge of armor materials, product development, manufacturing processes, and project management. Interaction with customers, project managers, and suppliers is essential in this project-based business specializing in ballistic protection solutions for personal, vehicle, maritime, and aircraft protection.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Develop new armor products that are competitive - minimum weight and cost
- Evaluate new materials and concepts for use in our armor products.
- Execute project plans - both internal R&D and customer-funded.
- Creation of ideas on new designs and concepts.
- Initiate, coordinate, and plan the manufacturing and testing of ballistic samples.
- Enhance and optimize on existing solutions and processes.
- Support sales with product data and solutions for customer requirements.
- Ensure that development activities are performed in accordance with our management manual.
- Comply with Special Security Agreement and supporting plans, policies, and procedures related to classified information.
- Maintains awareness of available ballistic materials, performance, and vendors.
- Provides armor material designs to meet customer specifications.
- Ensures designs have been developed per our Manual and Procedures.
- Authors product development plans (ENG-036).
- Takes an active role in supporting the Engineering Project Manager (EPM) in Preliminary Design Review (PDR) functions with technical assistance, data, and analysis.
- Coordinate test article builds for IR&D/CR&D projects, product certification, and/or qualification, such as but not limited to, NIJ certifications for commercial products and First Article Testing (FAT) for military products, at external test laboratories, and coordination of results.
- Summarizes ballistic development project efforts in detailed, written, and published reports.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
- Provide armor solutions meeting the performance requirements in the solicitation.
- Prepare proposal technical sections describing the proposed armor solution(s) and performance.
- Provide Bills of Materials (EBOM's) of proposed armor solutions for pricing.
- Obtain security clearance and safeguard classified information.
- Obtaining classified requirements for armor programs.
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:
- Bachelor's Degree preferably material science.
- 5+ years' experience in armor development, or fiber-reinforced composites, or ceramics, and project management preferred.
- Defense industry and company experience preferred.
- Experience in executing engineering product development projects preferred.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related software to complete reports and logs.
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