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Mechanical Engineer - Stowage & Mounting

Sterling Heights, MI 48310

Posted: 10/20/2025 Employment Type: Contract Industry: Mechanical Engineer Job Number: 43673 Pay Rate: 60.00

Job Description

This position is for a mechanical engineer to design, develop and release LRU mounting, shock and vibration attenuation mounting, radio racks, brush guards, and all aspects of stowage on military ground vehicles. Depending on workload demands, this person may also work in other areas such as fuel systems, hydraulics, pneumatics, and automatic fire suppression systems, driver controls, lighting, crew seating, and other mechanical subsystems.

Responsibilities:
  • Design and integrate shock/vibration LRU mounts, complete stowage packaging, and other mechanical elements into military vehicles. This will include working with suppliers to develop the subsystems and design components to meet vehicle performance requirements including human factors, safety, environmental and mine blast requirements.
  • Apply mechanics of materials, material selection, welding, and fabrication principles for mechanical components and complex welded brackets, mounting provisions.
  • Decompose vehicle performance requirements in order to perform system analysis and select appropriate components such as sensors, cables, handles, springs, pedals, and mechanisms and conduct detailed design of fluid system custom components.
  • Generate key characteristics, component specifications and perform component selection for supplier purchased parts.
  • Support various projects by doing analysis & design, drawing mark-ups, tolerance stacks and generating source data for engineering changes.
  • Write material requests and shop work requests, track delivery and stock of parts, participate in integration reviews, fit checks, and write reports.
  • Provide support to prototype and production vehicle build and follow-up, technical corrective action formulation, troubleshooting and redesign activities.
  • Present design concepts and program status to functional and program management.
  • Write test plans and perform testing and evaluation of systems.
  • Direct and oversee CAD model and drawing development.
  • Conduct failure analysis and corrective action along with responsible for technical writing and presentations.
Qualifications:
  • Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (preferred), Mechatronics, or related field, from an ABET accredited program.
  • 10+ years of engineering experience in the defense, aerospace, or automotive industry.  Military land vehicle experience is preferred.
  • Prior experience with Teamcenter and Vis Mockup.
  • Experience creating and releasing components, assembly models, and detailed drawings using NX or Creo.
  • Experience creating drawings in accordance with ASME Y14.100 standards.
  • Knowledge of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing in accordance with ASME Y14.5.
  • Basic Microsoft Office (e.g., Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and Adobe Acrobat skills are required.
  • Demonstrated ability to work independently and self-start.
  • Mind-set to work collaboratively in a team environment for program success.
  • Experience supporting prototype and/or production build activities.
  • Experience with root cause and corrective activities.
  • Ability to travel up to 10% to other facilities and military installations if needed.
Additional Information:
  • Experience with vehicle shock and vibration attenuating, personal safety guards, and radio rack design a plus.
  • Experience integrating vehicle stowage and mounting of LRUs.
  • Demonstrated experience developing mechanisms and components.
  • Previous experience working on ground combat Vehicles desired.
  • This position may require the candidate to be able to climb on/off, work in, and work around military vehicles.
  • Ability to work occasional weekends, evenings and overtime is required.
  • Able to bring continuous improvement processes and methodologies to the position. 
  • Strong communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills are required.
  • Must be able to work independently on component and system designs but also be able to work well in a collaborative environment for vehicle integration. 
  • This position may require eligibility to obtain a US security clearance.  (Non-US Citizens may not be eligible to obtain a security clearance)

Meet Your Recruiter

John Sabbagh
Recruiting Manager

John Sabbagh has over 10 years of recruiting experience. Starting his career as an Entry Level Recruiter at Panther, our candidates find him genuine and great resource to their career search!

Fun Fact: John is a sports fanatic, he plays in horseshoe and cornhole leagues and loves fantasy football.

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