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Peraton is seeking a Mechanical Engineer with a focus on pneumatics to work in the Guidance, Navigation, & Control (GNC) section at Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, VA. Wallops Island, VA is a remote location.
This position supports NASA’s Sounding Rocket Operations Contract (NSROC) at the Wallops Flight Facility. NSROC supports approximately 18 sounding rocket missions per year. This program supports a range of scientific and government experiments. Missions are flown from a variety of launch sites including but not limited to: Wallops, White Sands Missile Range, Poker Flats Rocket Range, Alaska, Kwajalein, Andöya, Norway, and Svalbard. Applicants are encouraged to read about the Sounding Rocket Program and familiarize themselves with the Wallops Island area prior to applying.
In this role, you will be the S-19 Boost Guidance engineer for sounding rocket missions and will support system development throughout the entire mission life cycle including launch at remote sites. Travel is required; typical travel to the remote launch site lasts 4 to 6 weeks. The position will require an individual to be living locally to support efforts on base. You will work on a variety of projects, typically multiple at any one time, and will require an individual able to work individually and in a team environment.
The position requires the ability to understand and apply a broad range of technical disciplines germane to GNC problems. These areas include but are not limited to pneumatic design and analysis as well as understanding of certification requirements and maintenance, basic power systems, mechanical systems, cold gas pneumatics. The position will require ability to understand and apply fluid dynamic and stress analysis to the pneumatic systems of sounding rocket payloads.
In this position you will troubleshoot and maintain existing custom pneumatic system designs for flight and GSE parts and assemblies, as well as develop new parts and systems to support sounding rocket missions. You will be expected to support and guide the development of new vendor-designed pneumatic parts and perform testing on vendor parts. You will work with those vendors as problems are found and as designs mature.
You must be able to adeptly communicate pneumatic concepts within the program and to the customer, in written, oral, and presentation formats. You will be working with high pressure pneumatics systems. Additionally, this group has a significant manufacturing function that you will support; this includes, but is not limited to ordering raw material, performing fabrication, testing components, and planning build efforts.
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