Associate, Materials Process Engineer

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Job Title: Associate, Materials Process Engineer

Job Code: 44735

Job Location: Canoga Park, CA

Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked, and have every other Friday off   

Job Description:

L3Harris is an industry-recognized leader in propulsion systems for space, missile defense, tactical missile and armament customers. Seventy years of L3Harris proven products continue to drive success for a wide variety of launch vehicles, missile defense systems, and strategic operations for the defense and advancement of our nation.

The Missile Solutions segment at the L3Harris Canoga Park, CA site is seeking an Associate, Materials Process Engineer to join the engineering materials process team.

 We are looking for an entry-level with broad theoretical job knowledge in materials characterization, mechanical testing, and materials property engineering. The candidate will work under general direction and guidance within standard processes for non-routine tasks. Contribute to systems and process changes in work routines. Support engineering efforts related to material property curve generation, design allowables development and testing plans, fracture mechanics characterization, and nonconformance resolution (NCR) material property support.

Essential Functions:

•  Support the generation of material property curves for use in design allowables, fracture mechanics analyses, and nonconformance report (NCR) dispositions in accordance with applicable command media and engineering standards.
• Assist in planning, executing, and documenting mechanical and materials characterization testing programs including tensile, fatigue, fracture toughness, crack growth, and other property-specific evaluations.
• Interpret and apply applicable command media requirements (e.g., internal engineering standards governing material property testing and data generation) to ensure compliant and traceable test execution and data reporting.
• Support development and maintenance of material property databases and design allowables documentation used by design and stress engineering communities.
• Evaluate raw test data for validity, consistency, and compliance with applicable specifications and standards.
• Work with cross-functional teams including design engineering, stress analysis, manufacturing, quality, and materials engineering to ensure material property data meets program and customer requirements.
• Prepare technical reports, data packages, test plans, work instructions, and process documentation in support of material property programs.

Qualifications

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