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Designs, optimizes, and oversees manufacturing processes for solid rocket motors. Responsibilities include production oversight, process control, quality assurance, failure analysis, regulatory compliance, documentation, and technician training. The role collaborates with design, testing, and quality teams to improve efficiency, consistency, safety, and reliability in aerospace manufacturing.

Leads customer mission integration from engine delivery through flight campaigns. Serves as the technical point of contact, manages contract execution, ensures Interface Control Document compliance, conducts integration and testing, reviews engine data, troubleshoots hardware in the field, briefs customers, and implements propulsion improvements. The role requires hands-on aerospace hardware experience, customer communication, technical leadership, and approximately 30% travel to customer sites and test locations.

Leads safety, reliability, mission assurance, and risk management for aerospace propulsion systems. Develops safety requirements, performs failure and reliability assessments, manages risk registers, supports hazard classification and flight-test safety planning, leads failure investigations, and coordinates with DoD Weapon Safety Review Boards. Collaborates across systems engineering, design, manufacturing, testing, mission operations, and program teams to ensure safe product lifecycle execution and regulatory approval.

Performs solid rocket motor ballistics analysis, develops and validates computational tools, reviews test data, supports energetic materials modeling and testing, investigates failures, and presents technical findings to government and commercial customers. The role contributes to propulsion design, manufacturing support, production deviation resolution, and applied R&D while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Lead the design, development, qualification, procurement, testing, and production support of ordnance components for solid rocket motors. Responsibilities include designing ignition, safe-and-arm, separation, and termination systems; managing technical supplier interfaces; authoring specifications and test documentation; overseeing environmental and energetic testing; investigating failures; performing risk analyses; and collaborating across systems engineering, safety, quality, and integration teams.

Performs high-fidelity structural, thermal-stress, dynamic, and finite element analyses for solid rocket motor components. Develops and validates analytical models, correlates results with test data, supports design and manufacturing decisions, investigates failures, prepares technical documentation, and mentors analysis engineers. Collaborates with design, manufacturing, and test teams to support development, qualification, production, and continuous improvement of safety-critical aerospace propulsion systems.

Performs loads development, load spectrum development, structural dynamics analysis, and model validation for aerospace propulsion and vehicle programs. Assesses motor performance under vibration and shock, propagates loads to components, supports testing and instrumentation, and evaluates nonconforming hardware. Requires structural analysis experience, dynamic loads expertise, and a mechanical or aerospace engineering degree. Preferred experience includes FEA, NASTRAN, ANSYS, Abaqus, fatigue analysis, and thermal-structural analysis.

Leads propulsion tank architecture from concept through qualification for hypersonic and high-performance aerospace vehicles. Responsibilities include fluid and mechanical tank design, subsystem integration, requirements definition, testing, data analysis, risk mitigation, technical reviews, and cross-functional collaboration. The role serves as the technical authority for tanks and interfaces while providing mentorship and technical leadership.

Own systems engineering for in-space spacecraft propulsion from concept through production. Develop and maintain requirements, coordinate verification and validation, support qualification and acceptance testing, participate in design and program reviews, assess reliability and risks, ensure range safety compliance, and mentor systems engineering associates.

Designs and supports aerospace electromechanical hardware, including electrical harnesses, enclosures, brackets, and test equipment components. Responsibilities include 3D modeling, engineering drawings, BOMs, design analysis, harness routing, manufacturing support, troubleshooting, environmental testing, configuration management, and technical documentation. The engineer collaborates with electrical, mechanical, avionics, propulsion, manufacturing, and test teams while supporting rocket engine and defense systems development.