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Who We Are
We are Textron Systems, best known for innovative defense technologies and services. We are a part of Textron Inc, one of the world’s leading multi-industry companies, recognized for its powerful brands such as Bell, Cessna, Beechcraft, E-Z-GO, Arctic Cat and many more. Our company leverages its global network of aircraft, defense, industrial and finance businesses to provide customers with innovative products and services.
But our business is all about people – the customers who rely on us and the exceptional team that brings our mission to life.
We've been in the industry for more than 50 years and embraced the unique capabilities that come with being a mid-sized player. We bring the agility of a small business to meet our customers' most urgent requirements and empower our team members to push past possible. We can scale quickly to solve the big problems, working across functions, sites, and business lines to make it happen. We’re comprised of 7 domains specializing in Air, Sea, Land, Weapons Systems, Electronic Systems, Propulsion, and Testing and Training Simulations.
Start your career in a big way by joining Textron Systems. We are here to provide necessary and life-changing services and products to our customers. We are right where the real work happens. By joining our team, you will gain exciting and versatile experiences from day one to fuel your growth. Talent development is a big part of who we are. Don't just start your career - go big.
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About This Role
In this role, you will be responsible for:
- Research, design, evaluate, install, operate, and maintain electro-mechanical products, systems, and processes to support new and existing simulation training devices.
- Design new component parts, assemblies, and production drawings using 3D CAD software.
- Alter and/or modify existing designs to achieve specified functional and operational performance.
- Review and evaluate existing mechanical design drawings and specifications.
- Research and analyze data, such as customer design proposals, specifications, and manuals to determine feasibility of design modifications or new system applications.
Job Summary:
Responsible for the oversight of operations within the warehouse and shipping facility to ensure that all incoming and outgoing inventory is processed according to schedule. This includes the planning, coordinating, and monitoring of warehousing, inventory, transportation, and supply chain processes.
Job Responsibilities:
- Work with the required support groups and manufacturing to deliver materials on time for production needs.
- Establish warehouse and shipping practices and protocols to achieve maximum efficiency.
- Continuously drive improvement of critical metrics such as safety, product quality, delivery performance, cost and growth. Develop and implement strategies that result in significant inventory turn/reduction improvements without compromising on-time delivery performance.
- Lead the team in setting and achieving team goals, conducting efficient team meetings and effective problem solving.
- Facilitate member commitment, contribution, and innovation with careful and consistent application of group leadership techniques.
- Interface with the leader's counterpart from the customer's organization to ensure necessary communication, identification of issues, and management of action items with the customer.
- Provide supervisory direction, counseling, instruction, training, and development for the assigned Team Members as required.
- Position supports the development of presentations, strategy, performance metrics and information in response to Operations management or program-initiated requests.
- Audit and report inventory while making recommendations for continuous improvements.
Who We Are
Textron Systems is part of Textron, a $14 billion, multi-industry company employing 35,000 talented makers, thinkers, creators and doers worldwide. We make things that fly, hover, zoom and launch. Things that move people. Protect soldiers. Power industries. We serve customers in industries spanning aerospace and defense, specialized vehicles, turf care, and fuel systems.
This role is in Textron System’s
About This Role
The Quality Engineer II performs assignments that necessitate independent evaluation, selection, and application of standard Quality Engineering techniques, procedures, and criteria, employing judgment and ingenuity to make necessary adaptations and modifications. This role involves working on moderately complex contracts, requiring autonomous execution within a defined set of skills or knowledge areas. The Quality Engineer supports various activities, including product design, quality planning, production processes, data analysis, and metric development. Additionally, the role involves identifying root causes of issues, implementing corrective actions, and driving continuous process and product improvements to enhance overall quality.
Responsibilities:
- Performs quality planning activities including development of Quality Plan, Quality Assurance Directive and Inspection Plan documents as required by the assigned project(s).
- Uses knowledge of inspection tools and techniques to define inspection requirements.
- Participates in product development and design document reviews targeting DFX
- Participates in process improvement activities through monitoring, root cause investigations, auditing, failure analysis etc.
- Participates in Program Management activities appropriate to the assigned project(s).
- Participates in Contract Data Requirements List development, review and delivery to the customer as required by the assigned project(s).
- Assists in developing fabrication/build processes and standards.
- Performs Material Review Board (MRB) disposition and tracking activities.
- Interfaces with internal organizations and systems in performance of the assigned Quality Engineering functions.
- Provides status inputs to the Cost Account Manager for tasks performed. May perform CAM function for small to medium projects.
- May perform QA estimating for small to medium, less complex projects.
- Interfaces with Supplier Quality Engineering to provide guidance and support for supplier issues.
Who We Are
Textron Systems is part of Textron, a $14 billion, multi-industry company employing 35,000 talented makers, thinkers, creators and doers worldwide. We make things that fly, hover, zoom and launch. Things that move people. Protect soldiers. Power industries. We serve customers in industries spanning aerospace and defense, specialized vehicles, turf care and fuel systems
This role is in Textron System’s
About This Role
We believe people should love what they do – in this role, you will be responsible for:
Textron Systems is seeking a Mechanical Engineer to join our Land Systems team at the Slidell, LA facility. In this role, you will experience the entire engineering lifecycle of military vehicles through design, build, and test support. The ideal candidate has a proven ability to design mechanical systems using 3D CAD, hands-on experience in a prototyping or production environment, a solid foundation in mechanical design principals, and a passion for automotive-related platforms. This position is open for a level I to II role so candidates with 0-5 years of experience are welcome to apply.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to support the design, development, and optimization of mechanical systems and components. The systems that you will work on may include chassis, powertrain, weapon integration, armor, seating, HVAC, auxiliary systems, special equipment, and/or Command, Control, Communication, and Computers (C4) equipment.
- Conduct performance analysis and simulation studies to optimize components for weight, cost, and schedule based on the required operating conditions and mission scenarios.
- Manage technical requirements and specifications to ensure compliance to customer requirements as well as industry, regulatory, and military standards.
- Participate in Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) to ensure compatibility, reliability, and performance across the vehicle platform.
- Release 3D CAD models and 2D drawings through configuration management based on military, industry, and internal standards.
- Provide technical and hands-on support to the manufacturing team during prototyping and production for the successful production, assembly, and integration of mechanical systems.
Who We Are
Textron Systems is part of Textron, a $14 billion, multi-industry company employing 35,000 talented makers, thinkers, creators and doers worldwide. We make things that fly, hover, zoom and launch. Things that move people. Protect soldiers. Power industries. We serve customers in industries spanning aerospace and defense, specialized vehicles, turf care and fuel systems.
Job Summary:
The Supplier Development Engineer is responsible for delivering strategic and tactical supply chain activities for our supply base to effectively support all Textron Systems’ businesses across all site locations with a focus on overall external supply chain improvement.
Each team member will develop optimized external supply chain capability, enabling the highest levels of competition among the highest performing suppliers, geographically located; to optimally support our business throughout all phases of the product life cycle with a particular focus on Quality.
This role includes performing: - supplier assessments and development evaluations, supplier identification, and supplier management tasks. Working collaboratively across all product domains to understand the needs of the business and drive supply chain execution and accountability to the highest attainable level
The ability to travel is a catalyst to support our growing network of top performing suppliers, building relationships, competence and trust to support the development and delivery success of the many state-of-the-art Textron product lines, and when needed, engage in problem solving challenges that differentiates us from our competition. The network will further extend to capture internal customers in program management, engineering, and manufacturing, whilst teaming with procurement and Quality to provide effective execution.
The Supplier Development Engineer is specifically responsible for driving results with our suppliers across multiple supply categories including mechanical and/or electrical parts and assemblies in all facets of performance, including cost, delivery and quality. This role will report directly to the Manager of Supplier Development within the Supply Chain organization.
Key responsibilities:
· Develop Relationships throughout the Supply Base and connect that network with Internal customers and drive Quality into the foundation for execution
· Perform and/or participate in source qualification by performing quality management system surveys and special process surveys.
· Solicit supplier inputs into product design, considering design for manufacturability, cost, reliability, parts availability, and more.
· Perform Manufacturing Readiness Assessments (MRA) as appropriate for suppliers.
· Coordinate the effective flow-downs of contractual requirements to suppliers along with alignment on quality codes and performance expectations.
· Execute supplier development strategies balanced across all domains.
· Partner with Sourcing Engineering, Supplier Management, Buyers, and Quality Engineering to ensure a smooth transition to the identified source enabling seamless execution via leading effective Technical Interchange Meetings (TIM).
· Coordinate with Quality Engineering inspection requirements of suppliers and execute inspection requirements such as first article inspection, managing nonconforming materials, troubleshooting, processing material review board actions, etc.
· Lead management of critical supplier issues to improve overall execution.
· Lead risk assessments via FMEA/Risk Cubes, RCCA, countermeasures and supplier scorecard reviews.
· Perform data analysis and issue reports on supplier performance to ensure suppliers meet and maintain expected performance levels inclusive of quality and delivery.
Who We Are
Textron Systems is part of Textron, a $14 billion, multi-industry company employing 35,000 talented makers, thinkers, creators and doers worldwide. We make things that fly, hover, zoom and launch. Things that move people. Protect soldiers. Power industries. We serve customers in industries spanning aerospace and defense, specialized vehicles, turf care and fuel systems.
This role is in Textron System’s
About This Role
We believe people should love what they do – in this role, you will be responsible for:
Textron Systems is seeking an experienced Mechanical Engineer to join our Land Systems team at the Slidell, LA facility. In this role, you will experience the entire engineering lifecycle of military vehicles through design, build, and test support. The ideal candidate has a proven ability to design mechanical systems using 3D CAD, hands-on experience in a prototyping or production environment, a solid foundation in mechanical design principals, and a passion for automotive-related platforms. This position is open for a level II to III role so candidates with 2-10+ years of experience are welcome to apply.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to support the design, development, and optimization of mechanical systems and components. The systems that you will work on may include chassis, powertrain, weapon integration, armor, seating, HVAC, auxiliary systems, special equipment, and/or Command, Control, Communication, and Computers (C4) equipment.
- Conduct performance analysis and simulation studies to optimize components for weight, cost, and schedule based on the required operating conditions and mission scenarios.
- Manage technical requirements and specifications to ensure compliance to customer requirements as well as industry, regulatory, and military standards.
- Participate in Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) to ensure compatibility, reliability, and performance across the vehicle platform.
- Release 3D CAD models and 2D drawings through configuration management based on military, industry, and internal standards.
- Provide technical and hands-on support to the manufacturing team during prototyping and production for the successful production, assembly, and integration of mechanical systems.
Who We Are
Textron Systems is part of Textron, a $14 billion, multi-industry company employing 35,000 talented makers, thinkers, creators and doers worldwide. We make things that fly, hover, zoom and launch. Things that move people. Protect soldiers. Power industries. We serve customers in industries spanning aerospace and defense, specialized vehicles, turf care and fuel systems.
Job Summary
Textron Systems is seeking an experienced Electrical/Mechanical Sourcing Engineer focused on Design for Manufacturing and Assembly as part of the Strategic Outsourcing Strategy. The focus will be to engage with the internal customers to understand the business opportunities, collaborate with Strategic Sourcing Managers to help provide an effective, stable, and successful roadmap for Partnerships and Suppliers for Supply Chain. This individual will support required engineering input (technical producibility/DFX, evaluations, assessments, etc.) for new product development with internal customers, building and acting as a conduit to set up the supply base and with the goal to help mature the manufacturing readiness. The Associate Sourcing Engineer will identify, build, help manage and maintain capable supplier sources, and grow their network and knowledge. They will help drive the optimization of design for supplier manufacturability, design for supplier assembly, outsourcing design to cost & quality, and further support prototyping validation/readiness leading to a successful product roadmap for stable transition to production. Responsibilities will also include the collaboration and integration of the outsourcing strategy with other roles within the Supply Chain and Operations Team and provide Sourcing Engineering value in the establishment of suppliers. The Associate Sourcing Engineer will support upstream activities, such as Bill of Material (BOM) development, Plan for every Part initiative (PFEP), inclusion of emerging manufacturing technologies, Design for Manufacturing (DFM), cost validation & estimating. The Associate Sourcing Engineer will work closely with Design Engineering Team/IPT, Engineering Prototype and Test Teams, Manufacturing Engineering and Quality to help complete initial prototype builds, analyze supplier results, and provide technical guidance in the supplier management process.
Key Responsibilities:
· Collaborate with Sourcing Management and with internal customers (Business Development, Programs, Engineering, Manufacturing, etc.) and provide technical outsourcing recommendations that will support the maturation of business opportunities and program development goals.
· Foster relationships & team positive and engaging attitude while interacting with a diverse and multi-functional workforce during highly paced project development challenges.
· When required, Participate and provide outsourcing technical recommendations during design conceptual reviews.
· Perform outsourcing product & process alignment of technical requirements with all stakeholders
· Identify supplier selection criteria and perform down-selection/trade studies with internal stakeholders.
· Support the development of technical documentation and requirements (specifications, statements of work, etc.) leading to timely release of information to the supply base.
· Support supplier Kick-off’s - Cadence Meetings, Technical Interchange Meetings, Action Lists, Integrated Schedules, and status reporting using Standard work tools and processes.
· When requested, provide inputs, support and review technical evaluation documentation, populate capability development documentation and participate in Design Reviews (TRR, TIM, PDR, CDR, etc.).
· Collaborate with Supply Chain buyers and Sub-Contract and estimating team to develop outsourcing should-cost analysis.
· Work with preferred suppliers and internal team members to develop products and processes and make effective recommendations to optimize producibility and cost.
· Identify and support resolution of supplier/partner gap analysis based on technical & manufacturing readiness assessments to mature the product into a smooth Transition to Production (TTP)
· Perform requirements validations for capability and manufacturability, manage and perform Suppler Issue/risk assessments (DFMEA/PFMEA), and identify mitigation strategies that improve cost, schedule, and quality performance.
· Help identify performance tracking metrics, developing standardized processes and tools for Product Readiness Reviews (PRR) for assessment analysis & tracking.
· Collaborate supplier/part manufacturing and sourcing plans with IPT (Integrated Project Team), including Sub-contract and Buyers.
· Support the identification of cost savings and cost avoidance information for sourcing improvement opportunities.
· Build, maintain and grow a database of potential supplier sources that meet performance criteria based on business mission objectives.
· Benchmark & work with key suppliers to establish effective yield metrics and performance indicators.
· Support execution and delivery of Supply Chain Rapid Prototyping/Procurement request process.
· Support outsourcing of product testing, tooling, fixturing, assembly and validation
· Work with Supplier Development Engineers to ensure supplier quality flow-down, directives and requirements are communicated clearly and understood.
Who We Are
Textron Systems is part of Textron, a $14 billion, multi-industry company employing 35,000 talented makers, thinkers, creators and doers worldwide. We make things that fly, hover, zoom and launch. Things that move people. Protect soldiers. Power industries. We serve customers in industries spanning aerospace and defense, specialized vehicles, turf care and fuel systems.
This role is in Textron System’s
About This Role
We believe people should love what they do - in this role, you will be responsible for:
The Structural Engineering Analyst will be responsible for performing advanced structural analysis and design of flight vehicles in the Strategic Missiles Business Line. The position requires extensive expertise in the use of Computer Aided Design (CAD) models, Finite Element Analysis (FEA) tools, and other structural analysis software. The analysis techniques used, as well as the compiled results, will be summarized in presentations and detailed design analysis reports.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a senior structural analyst performing complex static and dynamic structural analyses of flight vehicles in the strategic missiles and reentry vehicle area.
- Utilize a combination of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) tools (Siemens NX, Ansys, MATLAB) and Textron developed software tools to generate structural characteristics and responses.
- Define recommended changes to improve the performance/efficiency of structural design features.
- Summarize results and design application techniques during the above activities via presentations and design analysis reports.
- Mentor and guide junior engineers in structural analysis techniques and best practices.
- Up to 5% travel may be required
Job Summary:
Performs Quality Engineering assignments for the Electronic Systems domain requiring independent evaluation, selection, and application of standard Quality Engineering techniques, procedures, and criteria using judgment and ingenuity in making adaptations and modifications. Work is performed on moderately complex contracts requiring independent execution within a defined set of skills or knowledge area. The Quality Engineer supports product design activities, planning for quality, production activities, data analysis and development of metrics, root cause and corrective action, and process and product improvement.
improvement.
Responsibilities:
- Reviews customer contracts on simple to moderately complex projects; responsible for requirements analysis, identification and definition.
- Performs quality planning activities including development of Quality Plan, Quality Assurance Directive and Inspection Plan documents as required by the assigned project(s).
- Interfaces with Supplier Development Engineering to provide guidance and support for supplier issues.
- Uses knowledge of inspection tools and techniques to define inspection requirements.
- Participates in product development and design document reviews targeting DFX
- Participates in process improvement activities through monitoring, root cause investigations, auditing, failure analysis etc.
- Participates in Program Management activities appropriate to the assigned project(s).
- Participates in Contract Data Requirements List development, review and delivery to the customer as required by the assigned project(s).
- Assists in developing fabrication/build processes and standards.
- Performs Material Review Board (MRB) disposition and tracking activities.
- Interfaces with internal organizations and systems in performance of the assigned Quality Engineering functions.
- Provides status inputs to the Cost Account Manager for tasks performed. May perform CAM function for small to medium projects.
- Performs QA estimating for small to medium, less complex projects.
Who We Are
Textron Systems is part of Textron, a $14 billion, multi-industry company employing 35,000 talented makers, thinkers, creators and doers worldwide. We make things that fly, hover, zoom and launch. Things that move people. Protect soldiers. Power industries. We serve customers in industries spanning aerospace and defense, specialized vehicles, turf care and fuel systems.
This role is in Textron System’s Electronic Systems area. Visit TextronSystems.com & Lycoming.com to read more about who we are and the products we make!
About This Role
We believe people should love what they do – in this role, you will be responsible for:
- Receives and disburses material or parts to internal and external customers requesting material transactions.
- Verifies material or equipment and amounts against information on various incoming and outgoing documents.
- Responsible for assuring parts/materials are properly identified and packaged.
- Ensures all material is available on the manufacturing floor to keep production running efficiently.
- Locates parts/materials in proper storage areas in accordance with manufacturing procedures.
- Maintains records of materials received, disbursed, shipped and on hand.
- Responsible for assuring inventory accuracy and record integrity by monitoring all inventory transactions and records.
- Assists with yearly 100% inventory.
- Reconciles complex material and equipment physical/records discrepancies.
- Performs administrative tasks associated with assisting area supervision.
- May move material by hand truck or forklift within assigned storage area.
- Practices good safety habits and maintains good housekeeping.
- Performs other clerical or material handling duties as required.