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The Loads & Dynamics Team is seeking a Mechanical Engineer - Structural Dynamics Analyst to provide state-of-the-art analysis for Lockheed Martin's Missile Systems.

In this role you will work on significant analyses involving structures, materials and strategic missile defense and flight systems.

Other Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

•Perform structural dynamic analyses for missile and spacecraft flight hardware

•Produce and maintain models generated from both in-house and commercially available software codes, that simulate mechanical loading conditions, mechanism deployment motions, and the response behavior of missile segment and spacecraft separation events.

•Perform loads development (primary structure and component level), shock and vibration environments determination and component and system level testing and data evaluation.

•Prepare test plans; static, separation dynamics, vibration, modal and shock test execution, and post-test reports. You will be an important part of our product development team, where effective communication is critical.

•Have the ability to work with a multi-disciplined team performing structural design trades, preliminary and detailed design/analysis activity and performance and maintenance assessments of operational systems.

•Support dynamic test definitions, requirements development, test monitoring, data reduction, and comparison to analysis efforts.

•Provide user documentation and recommendations to data packages to support peer and customer reviews, present analysis data to engineering teams, customer technical representatives, and Program Office personnel at technical interchange meetings and design reviews

•Mentor junior engineers and cross train other engineering fields.

•Provide review, interpretation, flow down, and implementation of program requirements, and plan tasks and review budget and schedule to reduce cost and cycle time.

#LI-TW1 Desired skills • A Master's degree is strongly preferred for this position

•Decades of experience working in the defense industry with practical hands on experience

• Extensive experience and practical application of vibroacoustic assessment of flight structures

•Knowledge of both empirical and model based approach to shock assessments

•Ability to work in a collaborative and highly integrated team environment

• Ability and desire to assume ownership of tasks and drive to closure quickly and efficiently

•Experience evaluating designs using rigid body or flexible body analysis methods and tools

• Mechanisms, antenna, electronic component, ground support, hoisting, and test support equipment, and composite materials analysis experience

• Experience with NX/Nastran, Abaqus, ADAMS, LS-Dyna, Matlab, Mathcad and CREO & Wave6

• Static, vibration, acoustic, modal, shock test experience of aerospace flight hardware

•Creativity/innovation to tackle issues related to anomalous performance of any aspect of a mechanical system

•Willingness to mentor junior analysts

•Active Security Clearance

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