We have multiple openings for Senior Engineering Associates. You will work independently by collaborating with scientists, engineers, and top-level technical personnel to provide highly advanced technical and technical management support in mechanical, electronics, and laser/electro-optic technologies to support complex engineering, research, and operational systems. You will conduct research to find solutions to engineering problems along with providing leadership in developing, designing, documenting, analyzing, operating, maintaining, and improving highly complex mechanical, electronic, software, and laser/electro-optic systems. You will plan and lead multiple projects of significant scope. You will author, review, and approve reports, manuals, and other engineering documentation as well as routinely presenting this material to superiors and subordinates. This position is in the Laser Systems Engineering & Operations (LSEO) Division within the Engineering Directorate.
This position requires full-time on-site presence due to the nature of the work.
In this role, you will
- Provide highly advanced technical support in originating, developing, analyzing, evaluating, troubleshooting, and documenting highly complex mechanical, electronic, and laser/electro-optic engineering systems and solutions.
- Collaborate with scientists, engineers, and high-level technical personnel to support the design, development, operation, maintenance, and improvement of highly complex prototype, production, research, and operational systems.
- Develop and refine technical systems, operations, and maintenance strategies for highly complex multidisciplinary systems.
- Lead the design, documentation, modification, testing, integration, operation, and maintenance of highly complex mechanical, electronics, instrumentation, controls, software-enabled, and laser/electro-optic systems.
- Define high-level technical requirements into detailed engineering solutions, technical documentation, operational approaches, and implementation plans.
- Develop, author, review, and approve technical documentation including reports, engineering analyses, procedures, operation and maintenance manuals, schedules, and related engineering documents.
- Perform and review highly complex data analysis, technical evaluations, troubleshooting results, and system performance assessments to support engineering decisions.
- Provide technical leadership to multidisciplinary teams; assign tasks, define technical approaches, oversee work execution, and mentor technical personnel.
- Train and qualify others in specific on-the-job technical assignments, procedures, engineering best practices, and applicable Laboratory processes.
- Ensure assignments are performed in accordance with applicable ES&H, security, code, standards, and engineering rigor requirements.
- Apply a high degree of independent discretion and judgment to define project approaches and implement original technical solutions.
- Perform other duties as assigned.