Project Engineer

Job Title: Project Engineer

Job Location: Torrance, CA

Type: Full time

Responsibilities

• Observe, evaluate and troubleshoot existing production problems
• Develop an overarching understanding of the manufacturing and testing processes that go into the vacuum hardware and RF / TWT / MPM testing
• Lead engineering efforts
• Support operations personnel on day-to-day production needs
• Support program management on technical issues and customer relations
• Work as a key member of a multidisciplinary engineering team to develop or troubleshoot designs to meet performance, cost and schedule metrics
• Support bid and proposal activities, including analyzing customer specifications to evaluate feasibility and cost
• Anticipate and translate customer needs into engineering metrics
• Specify components and/or direct modification of products to ensure conformance with engineering design and performance specifications
• Communicate effectively with vendors, customers, and other Company personnel
• Perform modeling and design engineer tasks on current or future products

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in physics or an engineering discipline is required. A master's degree in one of these disciplines a plus
• Relevant engineering experience that includes a combination of or equivalent experience in: production or development support, electromechanical design, radar or RF systems, electron beam or vacuum equipment, systems or project engineering is preferred.

Other qualifications that will enable you to perform successfully in this position include:

• Project or system engineering with hands on experience preferred
• Knowledge of the design, manufacturing or testing of RF and/or vacuum technologies is massive plus, with emphasis on TWTs
• Experience working with engineering drawings or CAD software
• Experience with manufacturing a plus, specifically in the fields of dispenser cathodes, vacuum hardware, brazing, RF systems, system integration and general mechanical packaging.
• Understanding of lean manufacturing and continuous improvement principles a plus
• Effective verbal and written communication skills are needed, with experience presenting to internal and/or external customers a plus
• Must be able to work well in a team environment and with individuals from a variety of areas within the company (such as program managers, engineers from multiple disciplines, business development staff, senior management, and manufacturing and test personnel)
• Computer programming skills a plus
• Active or previous security clearance preferred