Links Technology is seeking a driven and skilled Sr Designer to join our client’s team in Wichita, KS. Our client is a leading aerospace and defense firm, renowned for delivering customer-focused technology and best-of-breed integrations. This Contract role offers the opportunity to apply your expertise to design and create groundbreaking aerospace and defense technologies. The contract length is 12 months.

Responsibilities of the Sr Designer:

• In this role, you will be using your skills and expertise to develop highly complex designs.
• These cover a very wide range, from advanced mission payloads and electronic systems through highly integrated aircraft to orbital and space exploration systems.
• You’ll create and review layouts, drawings, and models for clarity, completeness, and accuracy.
• You’ll identify design errors, omissions, and other deficiencies, and recommend revisions and/or improvements in designs.
• Electrical Wiring and Interconnection Systems (EWIS) design and development:
• Creation harness assembly routings and installations
• Coordinate with other engineering disciplines to resolve system interferences
• Provide guidance on design tool development and enhancements
• EWIS component selection
• Provide guidance and mentor to more junior engineers on the team
• Ability to effectively communicate EWIS system requirements to other engineering disciplines
• Working knowledge of environmental electromagnetic effects and electromagnetic compatibility principles, as well as methods of protection and mitigation of those effects on EWIS.
• Familiar with system safety principles and hazard mitigation methods

Qualifications of the Sr Designer:

• Significant experience with 3D harness routing and installation design CAD tools (e.g. CATIA, SolidWorks, NX)
• Significant experience with Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) tools (e.g. 3DExperience, Enovia SmarTeam, Teamcenter)
• Familiar with Model Based Design (MBD) principles
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance
• Experience with Dassault Systems 3DExperince, Catia V5 or V6
• Experience with Catia Electrical Workbench
• High School Diploma or GED Equivalent and typically 10 or more years of relevant experience

Benefits of the Sr Designer:

• 10 Days PTO
• Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Matching 401k
• 12 month contract
• ONSITE role in Wichita, KS
• $50/hr - $52/hr

• In this role, you will be using your skills and expertise to develop highly complex designs.
• These cover a very wide range, from advanced mission payloads and electronic systems through highly integrated aircraft to orbital and space exploration systems.
• You’ll create and review layouts, drawings, and models for clarity, completeness, and accuracy.
• You’ll identify design errors, omissions, and other deficiencies, and recommend revisions and/or improvements in designs.
• Electrical Wiring and Interconnection Systems (EWIS) design and development:
• Creation harness assembly routings and installations
• Coordinate with other engineering disciplines to resolve system interferences
• Provide guidance on design tool development and enhancements
• EWIS component selection
• Provide guidance and mentor to more junior engineers on the team
• Ability to effectively communicate EWIS system requirements to other engineering disciplines
• Working knowledge of environmental electromagnetic effects and electromagnetic compatibility principles, as well as methods of protection and mitigation of those effects on EWIS.
• Familiar with system safety principles and hazard mitigation method