Mechanical Technologist - Component And System Level Hardware Design (Experienced)

Posting Duration

This posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of seven (7) calendar days, including the ‘posting date’. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.

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What Your Job Will Be Like

We seeking a dedicated R&D Mechanical Technologist for an exciting and unique opportunity to develop engineering solutions for the SafeGuards Transporter (SGT) and the next generation Mobile Guardian Transporter (MGT).

The selected applicant will work on teams designing, analyzing, fabricating prototypes, testing and producing component and system level hardware for the existing SGT fleet and the MGT currently under development. Both SGT and MGT projects are high visibility, multi-year efforts which go from concept development to fielded product, system assessment and surveillance, engineering updates, to demilitarization and retirement.

On any given day, you may be called on to:

• Collaborate other technologists on designing and developing a variety of mechanical components or assemblies to meet defined requirements
• Participate in design peer reviews.
• Ensure that selected designs meet criteria for manufacturability
• Work closely with and provide guidance, based on inputs from the design team, to the Manufacturing Liaison to ensure that complex mechanical components are fabricated, on time and within budget
• Work independently or in collaboration with other technologists, using hand tools or machine tools, to ensure that fabricated components are assembled in the manner designed
• Ensure the fabrication of prototype designs in the most efficient manner, making independent decisions, with minimum guidance from engineering project leads
• Integrate assembled prototypes into electrical or electromechanical systems

Selected applicants will be required to pass a Job Placement Assessment before beginning the job to ensure that they can perform the essential physical requirements with or without accommodation. Due to the nature of the work, this position will require the selected applicant to work onsite full time.

Qualifications We Require

• Associates degree in mechanical design technology or a closely related engineering field or equivalent experience
• Experience on mechanical engineering design, qualification, production, or modeling/simulation projects
• Active DOE Q-level security clearance

Qualifications We Desire

• Bachelor's Degree in mechanical engineering or related field
• Experience with electrical cabling interconnecting electronic modules
• Proven experience designing for manufacturability
• Experience working with Manufacturing Liaison to get parts fabricated
• Knowledgeable about advanced welding processes and methodologies
• Experience with sheet metal design and fabrication process
• Proven experience in automotive engineering
• Experience in heavy equipment operations and maintenance
• Experience with additive manufacturing techniques and processes

About Our Team

We support the Sandia National Laboratories nuclear weapon community in efforts spanning DOE and DoD strategic weapons shipment and storage by designing safe and secure transportation solutions which meet known, evolving, and emerging design basis threats. The department domain specialists provide mechanical engineering analysis and design, and implement secure transportation solutions, thus helping to ensure the security of our national critical strategic assets and facilities in dynamic environments.

About Sandia
Sandia National Laboratories is the nation’s premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation, with teams of specialists focused on cutting-edge work in a broad array of areas. Some of the main reasons we love our jobs:

• Challenging work with amazing impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide
• Extraordinary co-workers
• Some of the best tools, equipment, and research facilities in the world
• Career advancement and enrichment opportunities
• Flexible work arrangements for many positions include 9/80 (work 80 hours every two weeks, with every other Friday off) and 4/10 (work 4 ten-hour days each week) compressed workweeks, part-time work, and telecommuting (a mix of onsite work and working from home)
• Generous vacations, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance*

World-changing technologies. Life-changing careers. Learn more about Sandia at: http://www.sandia.gov

• These benefits vary by job classification.

Security Clearance

Position requires a Department of Energy (DOE) Q security clearance to start, or equivalent active security clearance with another U.S. government agency (e.g., DOD). Sandia is required by DOE directive to conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Applicants for employment need to be able to maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain a security clearance may be impacted.

Applicants offered employment with Sandia are subject to a federal background investigation to meet the requirements for access to classified information or matter if the duties of the position require a DOE security clearance. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause a clearance to be denied or terminated by DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment.

EEO

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status and any other protected class under state or federal law.