Senior Design Specialist
**$57.50/hour**

Kelly Government Solutions is hiring for an senior design specialist on a DoD contract with our customer in Minneapolis, MN.  This assignment should last approximately five months and could be extended.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Creates innovative and practical mechanical and electro-mechanical concepts and designs for components, assemblies, tools, and products of varying complexity
  

• Works closely with engineering, vendors, manufacturing, quality, and customers on design specifications
  

• Ensures designs are free of layout process defects. May assist engineers with defining design standards and configurations
  

• Applies Computer Aided Design (CAD) methodologies, theories, and techniques
  

• Reviews various completed engineering documents to ensure compliance with engineering and military standards, procedures, specifications, and accuracy of calculations and dimensions
  

• Provides expert technical consultation to the division and customer community relative to comprehensive and in-depth knowledge of design
  

• Develops highly innovative concepts that satisfy functional and operational requirements for existing product lines and new product development programs
  

• Ensures that CAD models can easily transition to modeling and simulation software
  

• Prepares the most complex design layouts, schematics or sketches (including test plans, procedures, or specifications) of functional systems to satisfy system and integration requirements within cost and producibility constraints
  

• Prepares drawing packages to military or equivalent ASME standards
  

• Checks completed layouts, drawings, test plans, test reports, procedures, and change history documentation (e.g., engineering change notices) for clarity, completeness, conformance to engineering, military, and industrial standards, procedures, specifications, and codes, and ensures accuracy of calculations and dimensions
  

• Coordinates closely with systems engineers to ensure designs satisfy contractual requirements
  

• Evaluates completed drawings, specifications, and procedures for producibility and viability of design, appropriateness of tolerances, fits, finishes, materials, and validates integration of equipment

Required:

• Associate’s degree with emphasis in engineering drafting/design or an equivalent combination of training and experience
  

• Minimum of nine (9) years drafting and design experience using CREO Pro-E CAD, including five years of advanced design concepts and applications
  

• Proficient in tolerance analysis and Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T)
  

• Proficient in use of applicable CAD equipment and drafting techniques including 3D modeling and manipulation of files
  

• Comprehensive knowledge of military drawings and specifications, and applicable MILSPEC/STD’s
  

• Comprehensive product line knowledge at the component, subsystem, and system levels
  

• Comprehensive knowledge of production methods and understanding of human factors

Preferred:

• Past combat vehicle experience
  

• Knowledge of MBD (Model Based Definition) is a huge plus

As part of our promise to talent, Kelly supports those who work with us through a variety of benefits, perks, and work-related resources. Kelly offers eligible employees voluntary benefit plans including medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, term life, whole life, accident insurance, critical illness, a legal plan, and short-term disability. As a Kelly employee, you will have access to a retirement savings plan, and holiday pay plans (earn up to eight paid holidays per benefit year), and a transit spending account. In addition, employees are entitled to earn paid sick leave under the applicable state or local plan. Visit https://www.mykelly.com/help-support-working-with-kelly-us/#Benefits for more information on benefits and perks that may be available to you as a member of the Kelly Talent Community.

What happens next:
Once you apply, you’ll proceed to next steps if your skills and experience look like a good fit. But don’t worry – even if this position doesn’t work out, you’re still in our network. That means our team of expert recruiters will have access to your profile, making your opportunities limitless.

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