COMPLETE Principal Pump Design Engineer (Onsite) - A01: Rockford - Aerospace 4747 Harrison Avenue, Rockford, IL, 61125 USA

Date Posted:

2023-11-06

Country:

United States of America

Location:

A01: Rockford - Aerospace 4747 Harrison Avenue, Rockford, IL, 61125 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

Collins Aerospace has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Pump Design Engineer.  We’re looking for a passionate professional to accept a high level of responsibility within a fast-paced, dynamic environment.  Candidate must have fuel pump design and analysis experience, particularly with positive displacement balanced and/or F vane, gear, and/or axial piston pumps. Experience designing centrifugal and external gear pumps is also valued. Candidate must also have strong manufacturing knowledge, exhibiting demonstrated knowledge in developing cost effective and robust pumping solutions to customer’s needs.  Candidate must excel at communication both in verbal and written formats, with the ability to adapt communication for a wide range of audiences including internal and external customers.  Candidate must have experience supporting product root cause investigations, as design engineering plays a key role in solving any product issues during the development process.  This also includes evaluating empirical data to validate design tools and reconcile pump design/analysis results with test data.

The work associated with this position will be performed onsite in Rockford, IL.  This position is eligible for relocation.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Responsible for completing design and analysis tasks for one or more pump programs, including driving development activities on-schedule and within budget, while ensuring all technical and regulatory requirements are met.
• Design support across all phases of the design cycle, concept & optimization, preliminary through detailed design, development, validation, certification, manufacturing, and operational service.
• Design new products and processes and improve and maintain existing products to help create better products or processes and ensure that the current and future needs of the business are met.
• Design and implement common procedures and standard work across the organization to optimize efficiency and quality.
• Develop data and make layouts, sketches, and notes necessary to present design proposal.
• Resolve design problems of difficult-to-complex scope to ensure project completion.
• Review completed layouts and drawings to ensure clarity, completeness, conformity to standards, procedures, specifications, and accuracy of calculations and dimensioning.
• Design mechanical components and assemblies with an emphasis on manufacturability, reliability, and maintainability
• Work with suppliers for sizing and selection of supplier design components (valves, EHSV, sensors, and motors)
• Evaluate and determine suitability of non-conforming (NCM) products including documentation of rationale.
• Validate design models and tools with empirical data from test programs
• Be a key participant in root cause investigations
• Conduct sustaining activities for fielded products

Qualifications/Experience Needed:

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) unless prohibited by local laws/regulations and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience OR an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years of experience OR in absence of a degree, 12 years of relevant experience
• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract

Preferred Qualifications:

• Aircraft system knowledge, particularly fuel and oil systems, and aerospace industry experience is preferred. 
• Familiarity with industry design, test and certification standards for aerospace pumping systems is also preferred.
• Aerospace Industry experience preferred
• MATLAB modeling and programming experience is highly preferable.
• CFD analysis experience in ANSYS Fluent or STAR-CCM+ is preferable as well.
• Pump Design experience is preferred
• Centrifugal and axial piston pump experience is preferred.

Collins Aerospace, an RTX company, is a leader in technologically advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defense industry. Collins Aerospace has the capabilities, comprehensive portfolio, and expertise to solve customers’ toughest challenges and to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving global market.

We make modern flight possible for millions of travelers and our military every second.  Our major product lines are on-board virtually every aircraft flying. Be it keeping passengers safe with our emergency power generation systems or creating a positive in flight experience through reliable cabin pressure controls and quieter engines, Power & Controls focuses on delivering a best-in-class experience to our customers. We hire the top people in the industry. Their ideas drive our performance, and their integrity keeps our customers happy. Join us as we take flight!

Collins Aerospace Diversity & Inclusion Statement:

Diversity drives innovation; inclusion drives success. We believe a multitude of approaches and ideas enable us to deliver the best results for our workforce, workplace, and customers. We are committed to fostering a culture where all employees can share their passions and ideas so we can tackle the toughest challenges in our industry and pave new paths to limitless possibility.

WE ARE REDEFINING AEROSPACE.
 

*Please ensure the role type (defined below) is appropriate for your needs before applying to this role.

Onsite: Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite. This includes all production and maintenance employees, as they are essential to the development of our products.

Regardless of your role type, collaboration and innovation are critical to our business and all employees will have access to digital tools so they can work with colleagues around the world – and access to Collins sites when their work requires in-person meetings.

Some of our competitive benefits package includes: 

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees
• Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Student Loan Repayment Program
• Life insurance and disability coverage
• Optional coverages you can buy: pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection
• Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits
• Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning
• Adoption Assistance         
• Autism Benefit
• Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions
• Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program
• Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits
• Bright Horizons, child and elder care services
• Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program
•  And more! 

At Collins, the paths we pave together lead to limitless possibility. And the bonds we form – with our customers and with each other -- propel us all higher, again and again.

                                                                                                                  

Apply now and be part of the team that’s redefining aerospace, every day.

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