Job#: 2024242

Job Description:

Job#: 2024242 Apex Systems, the nation's second largest IT staffing firm, has an immediate opportunity for a Break/FixTechnician to support one of our top clients in Englewood, CO. Please find the details below. Job Title:Mechanical Design Engineer Location:Kent, WA Shift:Monday-Friday 7am-4pm Duration:Contract Pay:$60-80/hr Job Description:

• Our client has an exciting opportunity for a Lead Equipment & Tool Engineer to join the Mechanical Ground Support Equipment (GSE) team as part of our Space, Intelligence, and Weapon Systems business unit located within a 10mile radius of Tukwila, WA.
• This GSE team supports a variety of programs ranging from technology development to initial production, and as such is seeking a highly responsible professional committed to upholding the highest standards of safety, quality, and integrity to support and grow our organization through the development and implementation of Best Practices and Standard Work across all business units.
• A successful candidate in this role will have passion, creativity, and an insatiable desire for process improvement and efficiency. They will also have a strong desire to be out in the factory, interacting with mechanics & production engineers, to directly support the production system by designing Mechanical Ground Support Equipment (GSE). Being able to identify not only short-term production needs but also anticipate long-term end-of-life equipment & tool requirement is critical to our overall lifecycle strategy.
• The ideal candidate will use extensive experience and judgement to plan and accomplish tasks, have the ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to building a positive culture; in addition, be accountable, adaptable, work as an empowered team member, and be a strong communicator. Strategic decision-making skills, analytical skills, and project management skills are highly desired

Primary Responsibilities:

Develops program and project requirements, develops highly complex equipment and tooling concepts and designs solutions, including alternatives for the Production System.

Validates analysis of technical data, influences product engineering design and makes robotics, automation or technical recommendations to support production system integration.

Leads the creation and modification of equipment and tooling definition at the program level.

Executes project plans, provides input to Make/Buy decisions and partners with Procurement to meet program schedule, cost and quality targets.

Ensures compliance with safety, producibility, maintainability, reliability, ergonomic factors and regulatory requirements. Leads gated reviews and develops plans for production readiness, preventative maintenance and spares.

Validates contractual performance milestones.

Develops and implements work-arounds and maintains configuration of hardware, software, and documentation.

Conducts studies and make recommendation for disposition of assets.

Validates contractual performance milestones, maintains configuration control, conducts technical reviews, and prepares plans for productions readiness, preventative maintenance, and spares.

Evaluate customer and/or operational needs to define and coordinate mechanical support equipment performance requirements, integrate technical parameters and assure compatibility of all physical, functional and program interfaces

Provide engineering expertise during production development activities; developing program and project requirements of highly complex equipment and tooling solutions, including alternativ