Mechanical Engineering Manager: Thermal & Structural

L3Harris Technologies; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

L3Harris Technologies in Salt Lake City is seeking a people-focused engineering leader to manage the Environmental Analysis Team within Mechanical Engineering. This role leads analysts responsible for thermal, structural, shock, vibration, and environmental analyses supporting ruggedized electronic/electro-mechanical hardware.

The Manager translates goals into short‑term plans, aligns staffing to program priorities, and ensures timely, technically rigorous analyses.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering with 9+ years of related experience, or graduate degree with 7+ years.
• Engineering leadership experience with people management, workload planning, and performance evaluation.
• Strong thermal and structural analysis background for mechanical/electro-mechanical hardware, including vibration, shock, and environmental qualification methods.
• Ability to work across functions and influence technical decisions involving design, manufacturing, quality, test, and program leadership.
• Experience using commercial analysis tools for FEA and thermal modeling; ability to select appropriate analysis level.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team of mechanical and environmental analysts across multiple programs.
• Assign team resources to proposals, development efforts, qualification programs, production support, and sustainment activities.
• Provide technical direction for thermal, structural, vibration, shock, fatigue, and environmental analyses; ensure models and reports are rigorous and well-documented.
• Drive correlation between analysis, test, and field data to improve model accuracy and product reliability.
• Collaborate with systems, electrical, manufacturing, quality, test, supply chain, and program teams to resolve design issues.
• Establish and improve standard work for analysis planning, peer reviews, model quality, report quality, and lessons learned.
• Support proposals, basis-of-estimate, and technical risk assessments; present to customers.
• Hire, onboard, mentor, and assess team members with clear feedback and development plans.
• Champion continuous improvement through metrics and automation to reduce cycle time without sacrificing quality.
• Identify tool and lab capability needs and advocate investments to improve long-term capacity.
• Promote accountability, collaboration, inclusion, and engineering excellence with a sense of urgency.
• Contribute to technically challenging work as needed, including high-risk analyses and design trades.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Thermal/Structural analysis

FEA tools

Cross-functional

Technical communication

Security clearance

Education

Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering

Master's in Mechanical Engineering preferred

Tools

FEA software (e.g., ANSYS/NASTRAN)

Thermal/Structural analysis tools

Job description

L3Harris Technologies in Salt Lake City is seeking a people-focused engineering leader to manage the Environmental Analysis Team within Mechanical Engineering. This role leads analysts responsible for thermal, structural, shock, vibration, and environmental analyses supporting ruggedized electronic/electro-mechanical hardware.

The Manager translates goals into short‑term plans, aligns staffing to program priorities, and ensures timely, technically rigorous analyses.