Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems (OTS) is a global leader in the design, engineering and production of munitions and missile subsystems. They are seeking an R&D Engineer II (Ballistician) to generate rocket motor concepts, refine designs, and collaborate with various stakeholders to ensure successful project execution.
Responsibilities
- Conducts research, design, and development activities with the goal of developing new or improved products, processes, or services
- Collaborates with internal manufacturing partners, contract manufacturers, designers and product specialists to optimize designs for manufacturability
- Applies research theories, principles, and models when conducting experiments and research activities
- Conducts market research, tracks projects, builds spreadsheets evaluating trade space, designs presentation slides, and executes business-oriented tasks
- Summarizes research results and communicates findings to internal and external bodies
- Assesses the scope of research projects and ensures projects are on time and within budget
- Develops technical documentation for all projects
- Utilizes CAD (Computer Aided Design) or CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) systems to model new designs and produce detailed engineering drawings
- Develop: Create rocket motor concepts to meet customer requirements
- Design and Analysis: Refine grain geometries and optimize burn rates, thrust and pressure curves in collaboration with other stakeholders
- Testing & Qualification: Lead static fire test campaigns and ground-based prototyping. Analyze test data to validate performance and investigate any anomalies
- Data Reduction: Reduce strand burner, subscale and fullscale motor data to determine burn rate properties of propellants
- Manufacturing Oversight: Oversee propellant casting, curing cycles, and review of tool designs
Skills
- Associate's Degree and 2-4 years' experience
- Engineering degree required
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
- Bachelor's Degree
- Product innovation
- Product intelligence
- Product research
- Project scoping
- Quantitative research
- Research and development
- Research documentation
- Oral and written communication skills
- Critical thinking
- Analytical thinking
Benefits
- Hired applicant may be eligible to participate in the Company’s Gain Sharing Program.
- Employees are eligible for medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, and basic life insurance as well as pre-tax spending accounts.
- Employees are also able to enroll in the company's 401k plan and are eligible for the Non-Contributory Retirement Contribution.
- In addition to the benefits discussed above, the company offers the following voluntary benefits: Critical Illness Insurance, Accident Insurance, Identify Theft Protection, Enhanced Legal Services, Auto and Home Insurance, Pet Insurance, Commuter Benefits, Hospital Indemnity Insurance, Educational Assistance.
- Employees will receive 11 paid holidays and 120 hours of PTO annually and up to 3 weeks paid family leave.
Company Overview
General Dynamics OTS provides the U.S. military and its allies around the world, an extensive range of weapons systems. It is a sub-organization of General Dynamics. It was founded in 1996, and is headquartered in Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is http://www.gd-ots.com.