Honeybee Robotics

Chief Mechanical Systems Engineer

Longmont, Colorado, United States

$175-217k

Full Time

9 months ago

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Job description

Join the Honeybee Robotics Motion Control team in Longmont, Colorado, and become part of a 40-year legacy as pioneers in space robotics. We specialize in creating advanced motion control solutions for NASA, defense, and commercial programs, and our work has played a critical role in thousands of projects spanning from conceptual design studies to flight missions, including NASA's Artemis I Mission and the Roman Space Telescope. We are seeking technically brilliant individuals who are passionate about their work, thrive in collaborative environments, and have a laser focus on the details that drive excellence.

Honeybee Robotics is looking for a Chief Mechanical Systems Engineer to design and build revolutionary motion control and actuation systems for the most thrilling aerospace applications!

Responsibilities:

Act as the senior-most technical expert across all Systems and Mechanical engineering programs at Honeybee Motion Control.

Provide engineering leadership and mentoring to coordinate design, analysis, and systems engineering processes throughout development, verification, delivery and operation.

Help define engineering processes, content requirements and templates, and deliverables standards.

Assess and disposition aggregate technical risks across programs and technology development projects.

Establish and maintain design review criteria, chair said reviews, and provide critical internal feedback to review teams.

Lead critical FRB activities and drive the effective use of failure analysis techniques such as fault tree analysis, fishbone diagrams, 8D’s, etc.

Provide independent review of corrective actions for major failures at the program/product level and work with functional managers in addressing systemic issues.

Facilitate technical trades and advise teams on solutions for flight and ground architectures.

Develop engineering staff and provide senior level technical expertise and review.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from an accredited institution.

Minimum of 15 years of experience within the aerospace industry with new product development and sustaining support.

Leadership experience in an aerospace development environment, especially with mechanical space systems and/or lunar technologies.
Experience designing, deploying and supporting multiple complete flight systems or systems of similar complexity.

Subject matter expertise in at least several of the following areas: mechanism design, bearing design and analysis, gearing design and analysis, electromechanical systems, servo systems, power transfer, solar array pointing systems, electro-optical gimbals, failure analysis

Compensation and Benefits:

Employee Benefits include medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, and short and long-term disability.
401(k) with immediate vesting and a 4.5% company match (100% on the first 3% and 50% on the next 3%)
Education Reimbursement for certificate, undergraduate, and graduate programs
Paid Time Off includes up to 3 weeks per year, paid sick leave, paid parental leave, two floating, and 11 company holidays.

Salary is determined by the applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, internal equity, and alignment with market data.

This job posting is anticipated to close on 5/1/2024.

Applicants for employment at Honeybee Robotics, LLC must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e. current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Honeybee Robotics, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information, national origin, or veteran status.

Note: This job posting is intended for direct applicants only. We request that outside recruiters do not contact us regarding this position.