Mechanical – Architect (Gimbal) (1)

DELOPT is looking for a Mechanical Architect (Gimbal) in the Bangalore location.

Responsibilities

1. Lead and manage a team of mechanical designers and engineers, providing guidance, coaching, and mentorship to foster their professional growth and development.
2. Assign design tasks and projects to team members based on their skills and expertise, ensuring effective utilization of resources.
3. Conduct regular performance evaluations, provide feedback, and identify training needs to enhance team members’ capabilities.
4. Identify opportunities for process improvement within the mechanical design team, streamline workflows, and enhance productivity and efficiency.
5. Plan, conceptualize, and create mechanical designs for new products.
6. Generate working prototypes for testing and demonstration.
7. Perform engineering calculations to support design work.
8. Create and review technical drawings, plans, and specifications.
9. Collaborate with multi-disciplinary engineering teams, and work with vendors and contractors.
10. Perform detailed documentation to track project development and design process.

Qualifications

1. Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field.

Experience

1. 10-15 years experience
2. Defense Product design like Stabilised Platform, Opt Mechanical systems
3. Expertise with CAD software (Creo 3.0, SolidWorks, Autocad)

Technical & Process Capabilities    

1. Skilled in designing stabilized gimbal platforms and opto-mechanical systems for defense applications, with expertise in selecting key gimbal components, including motors, slip rings, encoders, gyros, housing materials, bearing seals, and more. Proficient in developing mechanical designs for sensor housings, stabilization platforms, and gimbal structures, ensuring precision and durability
2. Experienced in conducting dynamic analysis and simulations to optimize system performance under various operational conditions, along with system-level testing and validation following standards such as MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-461F, and DO-160
3. Knowledgeable in GD&T, tolerance stack-up analysis, and reverse engineering, with a strong foundation in design concepts focused on DFM and DFMEA.
4. Skilled in developing and maintaining technical documentation, including 3D CAD models, mechanical drawings, and assembly instructions
5. Capable of vendor development, and supplier interactions, and experienced in planning, execution, manufacturing, machining processes, and product development
6. Collaborates effectively with cross-functional teams, including electronics hardware, Software, and quality.

Behavioural Capabilities

1. Collaborative, Capable to interact/interface with customers, cross-functional team
2. Self-driven
3. Excellent communication, verbal & written
4. Passionate & Learning ability

Skill

1. Strong knowledge of Engineering standards followed [ANSI, ISO, ASTM]
2. Product-level Problem identification and troubleshooting capabilities.
3. Responsible for the design, development and implementation of custom mechanical tooling, fixturing, and associated processes to enable the handling, assembly and/or disassembly of parts, components, sub-assemblies and final assemblies throughout the product life cycle. Establishes standards across all operational processes
4. Empower Juniors and Sub-ordinates to be up with team standards and Quality.
5. Innovative thinking to develop quick mechanisms to prove the concepts, present, and demonstrate to product management for approvals.

Values

Accountable & Responsible, Ethics & Integrity, Knowledge, Collaboration, Caring, Agility, Empowerment with Accountability and Sustainability

Preferred Experience, Knowledge & Attributes

1. Defence, Industrial, Allied Domain Knowledge
2. Environmental Tests based on MIL-STD-810G, MIL-STD 461E and JSS 55555.