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Mettle Ops lists this Senior Mechanical Engineer / Program Support opportunity in madison heights, Michigan. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Senior Mechanical Engineer / Program Support
About the Organization Mettle Ops is a woman-owned business experienced in defense program management, federal acquisitions, business development, engineering, analysis, reporting, and risk management with the mission of helping soldiers survive on the battlefield. Through transparency and grit, Mettle Ops delivers multidisciplinary, comprehensive Department of Defense engineering solutions to government and industry partners on a national scale with a mission to build business based on a philosophy of hard work and dedication. Mettle Ops believes they have a high obligation to the warfighter, their home state of Michigan, their customers, their employees, their faith, and their place on this earth. Mettle Ops is inspired by courage and tenacity and so-named Mettle Ops.
EOE Statement We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
Description
Position Overview
The Senior Mechanical Engineer / Program Support role is a senior technical position focused primarily on mechanical engineering execution, technical leadership, and mentoring of junior engineers.
This individual leads and supports mechanical design, integration, build, test, troubleshooting, requirements decomposition, and drawing release activities across complex defense-related engineering efforts.
The role also includes a limited program-support component focused on breaking larger engineering objectives into executable tasks, coordinating engineering work, and communicating progress and schedule concerns to the program manager. It is not a full-time project or program management role and does not include formal personnel management authority.
Length: 6-month contract with possibility of extension.
Key Responsibilities - Mechanical Engineering Leadership
Lead mechanical engineering activities for system-, subsystem-, and component-level design, integration, build, and test efforts.
Apply advanced mechanical engineering principles and sound judgment to solve complex technical problems.
Support requirements decomposition and translate technical requirements into practical engineering solutions.
Lead or support design development, packaging, integration, troubleshooting, verification, and validation efforts.
Produce, review, and improve engineering documentation including drawings, design packages, presentations, reports, test documentation, and related technical artifacts.
Support drawing development, drawing review, and drawing release activities.
Participate in technical reviews, design reviews, test events, and problem-resolution activities.
Evaluate technical issues, customer comments, and design changes for impact to performance, manufacturability, cost, and schedule.
Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including manufacturing, quality, program management, and other engineering disciplines.
Key Responsibilities - Technical Leadership and Mentorship
Provide technical leadership to junior mechanical engineers through coaching, task guidance, design review, and day-to-day mentoring.
Help develop engineering rigor, problem-solving ability, and execution discipline across the team.
Share best practices in design, integration, test, troubleshooting, documentation, and configuration discipline.
Support consistent engineering execution without formal supervisory authority.
Key Responsibilities - Program Support
Help break larger engineering objectives into clear, executable tasks for the engineering team.
Support planning and coordination of engineering work to align with program priorities and milestones.
Assign or coordinate actionable engineering tasks within the team in alignment with program direction.
Monitor engineering task progress and identify delays, blockers, and technical risks that could affect schedule.
Communicate engineering status, completion progress, and schedule concerns to the program manager.
Support disciplined execution of engineering scope in coordination with program leadership.
Position Requirements
Knowledge: gained through college education proven by their diploma, learned through applicable company trainings proven with training completion certificates or industry certifications
Engineering and Technology - Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.
Design - Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
Finite Element Analysis - Simulate physical phenomena and reduce the need for physical prototypes, while optimizing the components that are part of the design process of a project.
Mechanical - Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
Mathematics - Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
Physics - Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub-atomic structures and processes.
Production and Processing - Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
Computers and Electronics - Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
English Language - Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
Customer and Personal Service - Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
Administration and Management - Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
Education and Training - Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or closely related discipline.
15+ years of relevant mechanical engineering experience.
Demonstrated experience leading mechanical design, integration, test, and troubleshooting efforts for complexes systems.
Strong background in requirements decomposition, engineering documentation, and drawing release.
Demonstrated ability to guide and mentor junior engineers in a technical lead capacity.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and engineering judgment skills.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools.
Preferred Qualifications
Military experience preferred.
Experience in defense or other highly regulated technical environments.
Experience working on vehicle, platform, or other complex integrated mechanical systems.
Experience with CAD tools, PDM/PLM systems, and engineering documentation processes.
Experience supporting engineering planning, engineering task coordination, and schedule status reporting.
Active security clearance, or ability to obtain one.
Core Competencies
Mechanical design and system integration.
Technical leadership and mentorship.
Design-for-execution mindset.
Troubleshooting and engineering problem solving.
Requirements decomposition.
Documentation and drawing discipline.
Cross-functional collaboration.
Clear technical communication.
Engineering task planning and status accountability.
Work Environment
Professional engineering office environment with regular interaction across engineering and program teams.
Frequent coordination with internal technical staff and occasional customer interaction, typically in support of the program manager.
Primarily desk-based with participation in integration, build, review, and test activities as needed.
Work Context
Body Positioning
Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions
Spend Time Sitting
Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls
Communication
Contact With Others
Electronic Mail
Face-to-Face Discussions
Letters and Memos
Telephone
Competition
Level of Competition
Environmental Conditions
Sounds, Noise Levels Are Distracting or Uncomfortable
Impact of Decisions
Frequency of Decision Making
Job Hazards
Exposed to Hazardous Equipment
Routine versus Challenging Work
Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
Importance of Repeating Same Tasks
Structured versus Unstructured Work
Pace and Scheduling
Pace Determined by Speed of Equipment
Time Pressure
Responsibility for Others
Responsibility for Outcomes and Results
Role Relationships
Coordinate or Lead Others
Deal With External Customers
Work With Work Group or Team
Work Attire
Wear Common Protective or Safety Equipment such as Safety Shoes, Glasses, Gloves, Hearing Protection, Hard Hats, or Life Jackets
Work Setting
Indoors, Environmentally Controlled
Indoors, Not Environmentally Controlled
Activities
Interacting With Computers
Develop or maintain databases
Use computer aided drafting or design software for design, drafting, modeling, or other engineering tasks
Use computer graphics design software
Use computers to enter, access or retrieve data
Use relational database software
Use spreadsheet software
Use word processing or desktop publishing software
Getting Information
Collect scientific or technical data
Read blueprints
Read schematics
Read technical drawings
Read vehicle manufacturer's specifications
Making Decisions and Solving Problems
Resolve engineering or science problems
Use intuitive judgment for engineering analyses
Analyzing Data or Information
Analyze engineering design problems
Analyze engineering test data
Analyze project proposal to determine feasibility, cost, and time
Analyze scientific research data or investigative findings
Analyze technical data, designs, or preliminary specifications
Analyze test data
Evaluate costs of engineering projects
Evaluate engineering data
Evaluate manufacturing or processing systems
Evaluate tool designs
Provide analytical assessment of engineering data
Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
Confer with engineering, technical or manufacturing personnel
Processing Information
Compile numerical or statistical data
Compute production, construction, or installation specifications
Develop tables depicting data
Documenting/Recording Information
Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings
Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information
Bid engineering, construction or extraction projects
Estimate cost for engineering projects
Estimate time needed for project
Estimate time or cost for installation, repair, or construction projects
Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge
Follow manufacturing methods or techniques
Follow safe waste disposal procedures
Follow statistical process control procedures
Use biological research techniques
Use drafting or mechanical drawing techniques
Use government regulations
Use knowledge of investigation techniques
Use library or online Internet research techniques
Use mathematical or statistical methods to identify or analyze problems
Use pollution control techniques
Use project management techniques
Use quality assurance techniques
Use quantitative research methods
Use research methodology procedures within manufacturing or commerce
Use robotics systems technology
Use scientific research methodology
Use technical information in manufacturing or industrial activities
Use technical regulations for engineering problems
Thinking Creatively
Create mathematical or statistical diagrams or charts
Design control systems
Design electro-mechanical equipment
Design electronic equipment
Design engineered systems
Design machines
Design manufacturing processes or methods
Design power equipment
Design tools or mechanical devices
Design transporting processes
Determine specifications
Develop mathematical simulation models
Improve test devices or techniques in manufacturing, industrial or engineering setting
Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
Recognize characteristics of metals
Understand engineering data or reports
Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work
Plan production processes
Plan testing of engineering methods
Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards
Examine engineering documents for completeness or accuracy
Inspect facilities or equipment for regulatory compliance
Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships
Work as a team member
Communicating with Persons Outside Organization
Communicate technical information
Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment
Calculate engineering specifications
Draw prototypes, plans, or maps to scale
Write product performance requirements
Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material
Conduct performance testing
Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others
Explain complex mathematical information
Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People
Evaluate product design
Provide Consultation and Advice to Others
Advise clients or customers
Advise clients regarding engineering problems
Recommend materials for products
Recommend purchase, repair, or modification of equipment
Tools and Technology
Tools
Flow transmitters
Subsonic wind tunnels
Supersonic wind tunnels
Flowmeters
Digital particle image velocimeters
Laser Doppler anemometers
Laser Doppler velocimeters LDV
Pitot tubes
Semiconductor process systems
Aligners
Anodic wafer bonding systems
Contact lithography equipment
Deep reactive ion etchers DRIE
Evaporation systems
Technology
Analytical or scientific software
Computer aided design CAD software
Computer aided manufacturing CAM software
Development environment software
Full-Time/Part-Time Full-Time
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Worksite address
madison heights, MI, 48071, US
Who can apply
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