Senior Engineer, Defense Power & Manufacturing

Automatic Data Processing, Inc.; Florida; On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Lex Innovations is seeking an experienced Senior Engineer to support the full lifecycle of its power distribution products for defense contracts and programs. This role serves as a key technical resource for sustaining and legacy engineering, build-to-print programs, and documentation coordination.

The Senior Engineer will collaborate with customers, suppliers, Operations, Quality, Sales, and Product Development to resolve issues and translate requirements into manufacturable solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or closely related discipline.
• 5–15+ years of progressive engineering experience in manufacturing, aerospace, defense, electronics, or related industries.
• Strong proficiency in mechanical design, engineering drawings, tolerancing, materials, and manufacturing processes.
• Experience supporting products in a manufacturing or contract-manufacturing environment.
• Experience creating and maintaining bills of material, drawings, specifications, and engineering change documentation.
• Working knowledge of configuration management and formal engineering-release processes.
• Proficiency with 3D CAD and product-data-management or document-control systems.
• Strong problem-solving, organizational, and written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work directly with customers and translate technical requirements into actionable engineering solutions.

Responsibilities

• Provide sustaining and legacy engineering support for existing and legacy products.
• Lead root-cause investigations and develop corrective actions.
• Review customer drawings and BOMs for completeness and manufacturability.
• Coordinate inquiries, deviations, and drawing clarifications with customers.
• Support prototype builds, first-article inspections, and production readiness.
• Maintain alignment between customer requirements and internal production docs.
• Develop and improve engineering drawings, specs, and data packages.
• Ensure documentation reflects approved configurations and manufacturing processes.
• Establish reusable design standards and best practices.
• Collaborate across Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, Sales, and Product Development.

Skills

Mechanical design

Engineering drawings

3D CAD

Document control

Config management

Root-cause analysis

Customer interaction

Leadership mentoring

Problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering

Master's in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

ERP systems

PLM software

PDM software

Job description

Lex Innovations is seeking an experienced Senior Engineer to support the full lifecycle of its power distribution products for defense contracts and programs. This role serves as a key technical resource for sustaining and legacy engineering, build-to-print programs, and documentation coordination.

The Senior Engineer will collaborate with customers, suppliers, Operations, Quality, Sales, and Product Development to resolve issues and translate requirements into manufacturable solutions.