Senior Engineer: Defense Power Systems & Lifecycle

LEX Innovations; Florida; On-site; USD 95,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Lex Innovations seeks an experienced Senior Engineer to manage the full lifecycle of its power distribution products for defense contracts. The role serves as a key technical resource for sustaining, legacy engineering, build-to-print programs, design engineering, documentation, and configuration management.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on mechanical engineer with strong product-design fundamentals, solid engineering judgment, and experience in a manufacturing environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or closely related field.
• Five to fifteen+ years of progressive engineering experience in manufacturing, aerospace, defense, electronics, or related industries.
• Strong proficiency in mechanical design, drawings, tolerancing, materials, and manufacturing processes.
• Experience supporting products in manufacturing or contract-manufacturing environments.
• Experience creating and maintaining BOMs, drawings, specifications, and engineering-change documentation.
• Working knowledge of configuration management and formal engineering-release processes.
• Proficiency with 3D CAD and PDM 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 engineering support for existing and legacy products throughout their operational life.
• Investigate and resolve product, manufacturing, supplier, quality, and field-performance issues.
• Lead root-cause investigations and develop corrective and preventive actions.
• Evaluate obsolescence, material substitutions, and alternate suppliers.
• Implement improvements in cost, quality, manufacturability, reliability, and serviceability.
• Review proposed changes to ensure continued compliance with requirements.
• Serve as primary engineering contact for contract manufacturing and build-to-print programs.
• Review customer drawings, BOMs, and data packages for completeness and manufacturability.
• Identify risks, conflicts, and ambiguities before production.
• Coordinate customer technical questions, deviations, waivers, and drawing clarifications.
• Support prototype builds, first-article inspections, production readiness, and recurring manufacturing.
• Maintain alignment between customer requirements and internal production documentation.
• Support new business opportunities by evaluating customer requirements and developing technically sound product solutions.
• Prepare designs, configurations, and cost-estimating inputs.
• Adapt existing product platforms to meet customer-specific requirements.
• Contribute to development of new products and scalable product platforms.
• Perform engineering calculations, tolerance analyses, material selections, and design reviews.
• Develop designs balancing performance, safety, cost, manufacturability, maintainability, and schedule.
• Provide technical support to Sales and customers during proposals and orders.
• Create, review, and improve drawings, specs, BOMs, work instructions, and technical data packs.
• Correct incomplete, inconsistent, or outdated legacy documentation.
• Improve drawing quality, tolerancing, revision control, and design intent.
• Ensure documentation reflects approved configuration and process.
• Establish reusable design standards, templates, and best practices.
• Support and improve configuration-management processes across engineering and manufacturing.
• Create and process engineering change requests, deviations, and related documentation.
• Maintain alignment among drawings, BOMs, specifications, ERP records, and released configurations.
• Ensure changes are reviewed, approved, documented, communicated, and implemented.
• Maintain traceability of product revisions and substitutions.
• Strengthen product-data governance and release processes.
• Collaborate with Operations, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Sales, and Product Development.
• Provide hands-on engineering support during prototype, pilot, and production builds.
• Communicate technical information clearly to engineering and non-engineering stakeholders.
• Manage multiple assignments and priorities while maintaining accountability for quality and schedule.
• Mentor less-experienced engineers, designers, and technical personnel as appropriate.
• Participate in design reviews, risk assessments, and continuous-improvement initiatives.

Skills

Mechanical design

Engineering drawings

Tolerancing

Materials

Manufacturing processes

3D CAD

PDM / Document control

Problem solving

Communication

Customer requirements translation

Education

Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering

Master's in Mechanical Engineering (preferred)

Tools

3D CAD

Product-data-management (PDM)

Job description

Lex Innovations seeks an experienced Senior Engineer to manage the full lifecycle of its power distribution products for defense contracts. The role serves as a key technical resource for sustaining, legacy engineering, build-to-print programs, design engineering, documentation, and configuration management.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on mechanical engineer with strong product-design fundamentals, solid engineering judgment, and experience in a manufacturing environment.