Senior Mechanical Engineer (7911)

Are you looking for an opportunity with plenty of growth potential? Do you enjoy working in an exciting, fast-paced, collaborative environment? Are you interested in working with the world’s most innovative companies to create a more connected world?

Connecting Continents. Impacting Communities.

The backbone of the Internet is a series of high-tech subsea fiber optic cables deployed throughout the globe - SubCom has deployed over 50% of them. Our employees ensure data communications networks are engineered, manufactured, deployed to the highest standards, enabling faster and more reliable connectivity to communities worldwide. Every member of the SubCom team plays a role in an end-to-end process that is critical to enterprises, governments, big cities, and rural towns.

We encourage, expect, and value creativity, thoughtful risk taking, openness to change, and diverse perspectives. Whether you’re a seasoned applicant seeking a new and exciting challenge, or you’re new to the workforce and looking for a flexible, rewarding, and fast-paced position with an innovative and stable organization (since 1953), SubCom has opportunities to advance your career.

Position Overview

Serve on engineering team designing, developing, and qualifying optical fiber submarine cable hardware, with emphasis on undersea network element (UNE) cover assemblies, including welded cover structures that maintain UNE pressure-boundary sealing integrity and electrical/optical pigtail interfaces required for system interconnection.

Responsibilities

• Perform development, analysis, and testing of undersea hardware for Undersea Network Element (UNE) cover assemblies and opto-electric splice trays. Includes new product design, process development, documentation, and qualification.
• Lead teams in the implementation plan of New Product Development and Introduction (NPDI) programs for undersea cable and hardware from the concept phase through to production ramp.
• Develop special cover assembly designs for custom projects requiring Customer-defined opto-electric interconnections. This includes interfacing with the vendor and choosing the components to accommodate our network design requirements.
• Perform analysis and testing of deployment structures in support of custom projects including structural analyses and corrosion protection studies.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to increase process efficiency for Production through Value Analysis/Value Engineering (VAVE) activities such as qualifying designs that reduce assembly time. Areas including but not limited to: Cover assembly design, fiber splice process, power conductor solder process, cover closure process.
• Maintain and streamline existing undersea hardware drawings and documentation through Sustaining Engineering. Initiatives include updating and restructuring drawing packages to have more clarity for Production operators and to reduce duplication of similar technical drawings. These efforts significantly speed up development for current and future projects.
• Perform material analyses to validate designs for extreme environmental condition applications with special consideration for structural integrity, extreme temperature resistance, leak tightness, thermal management, electrical insulation, corrosion, etc. Materials include, but are not limited to, beryllium copper, copper, steel, and polyethylene.
• Work collectively with a team of diverse professionals including factory process engineers, reliability engineers, manufacturing operators, and program managers.
• Create and perform undersea hardware qualification testing programs of new designs.
• Write clear and concise summaries of analyses, test results, and other work output.
• Develop a comprehensive understanding of various materials as pertaining to structural integrity, manufacturability, and thermal management for application in deep water undersea environments.