Specialist - Stress, Tools & Design Engineer

Job Title: Specialist, Stress, Tools & Design Engineer

Job Code: 46897

Job Location: Canoga Park, CA

Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days - totaling 80 hours worked - and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

The Tool Stress Engineer classifications work with the Tooling Design and Fabrication team in developing and designing a variety of tools and equipment required to support manufacturing, quality and test operations.  This position evaluates and structurally analyzes tools during all phases of tool design, from initial concepts to preliminary design models and drawings, to final drawing release, through tool fabrication and into tool usage.   This position ensures that tools meet all relevant structural requirements, in accordance with their proposed usage, prior to tool fabrication.  This position also structurally analyzes design changes and modifications, and address' issues during tool usage when they arise.

Essential Functions:

• Performs work of moderate scope and relatively few complex features and which involves conventional types of studies, investigations, structures or equipment.

• Evaluates, selects and applies engineering techniques, procedures and criterion making tooling adaptations and modifications applying experience and judgement.

• May make presentations to small audiences.

• Selects applicable analytical data from previous tools, determines the technical principles involved, mathematically defines the problem and computes the engineering characteristics consistent with the specifications, design needs, and requirements of other portions of the tool and the products with which the tool interfaces.

• Provides imaginative, thorough, and practical solutions to a wide range of technical problems involving the conventional utilization of tool engineering techniques.

• Conceives and plans projects involving the development of new methods to attain objectives.

• Performs complex stress analyses and advises on structural requirements, machine suitability and method of fabrication.=

• Works on assignments requiring broad knowledge of precedents within the Tooling discipline and in-depth knowledge of principles and practices of related specialties within the industry.

• May participate in Tooling Design and Fabrication Team proposals describing analytical requirements, past successful experience, proposed design approach and rationale with estimated cost and schedule to perform.

• Provides guidance to less senior engineers and support personnel as required and may act as lead on a project.

• Participates in periodic proof testing to verify tooling meets required safety factor.

• Ability to develop new or non-standard testing methods as required to demonstrate capability of complex tooling designs.

• Ability to obtain a US secruity clearance. 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 4 years of prior relevant engineering experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related engineering experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related engineering experience. 

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Pertinent codes, rules and regulations related to area of tooling engineering assignment.

• Use of analytical, design or process procedures pertinent to the field of engineering.

• Engineering theory and practice relating to design and structural evaluation of devices or systems.

• Design or process procedures in the field of general engineering.

• Strength of Materials, Statics, Dynamics, Finite Element Modeling and Statistical methods.

• Basic chemical principles.

• Engineering test equipment, Computer Aided Design (CAD), Computer-Aided Manufacture (CAM) methods, analytical software (ANSYS), and associated computer systems.

• Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) and tolerance stack principles.

• Manufacturing methods and fabrication processes.

• Quality control and regulatory processes.

• Safety regulations, principles and practices of work safety.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel and PowerPoint), used to produce reports and spreadsheets.

• Bachelor’s degree in appropriate discipline and five (5) years of directly related experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Ability to evaluate tooling requests, develop design requirements and conceptualize innovative solutions.

• Provide imaginative, thorough, and practical solutions to a wide range of technical problems involving the conventional utilization of tool engineering techniques.

• Conceive and plan projects involving the development of new methods to attain objectives.

• Coordinate and contribute to tool design and modification, requiring knowledge of production processes, requirements, design concepts and materials.

• Interpret production plans and create tooling to accomplish contractual or production requirements.

In compliance with pay transparency requirements, the salary range for this role in California is $88,500 - $164,500. This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location. L3Harris also offers a variety of benefits, including health and disability insurance, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, EAP, education assistance, parental leave, paid time off, and company-paid holidays. The specific programs and options available to an employee may vary depending on date of hire, schedule type, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements. 

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