Mechanical Engineer Associate

Job ID: 2618173
Location: Panama City Beach, FL, US
Date Posted: 2026-10-20
Category: Engineering and Sciences
Subcategory: Mechanical Engr
Schedule: Full-Time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: No
Minimum Clearance Required: Interim_Secret
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Secret
Potential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE
Description
SAIC is seeking a Mechanical Engineer Associate to join in and support our team in Panama City Beach, Florida.
You will be working in a dynamic environment at our Holley Engineering and Integration Center. You will be supporting multiple Navy projects of various scales. You will hone your teamwork skills and gain engineering experience rapidly.
As an engineering team member, you will:

• Develop and maintain drawings and technical documents around specific systems. This will require the direction of drafters and technical writers.
• Capture design requirements using MBSE principles.
• Understand and use military and/or commercial specifications in development of drawings as well as understand mechanical stress/strain and how forces acting on parts produce stress/strain. Knowledge of Finite Element Analysis (FEA) is preferred.
• Work with Quality Assurance and Logistics Teams in development of drawings and to identify manufacturing discrepancies to ensure that drawings contain information required by customer.
• Manage form fit exercises in development of drawings and technical documentation. This will require direction of engineering technicians and tech writers to develop installation instructions for systems.
• Participate in weekly/biweekly meetings and effectively communicate project status to stakeholders.
• Ability to work well within a fast paced, team environment.
• Participate in various formal and informal design and model reviews.

Qualifications
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: Bachelors and 0 years related experience.

• Bachelors degree and no (0) years or more of experience. Experience in lieu of a degree will be considered.
• Knowledge of CAD software. The primary CAD tools used on this project is Solidworks. CREO and Autodesk products are also used for some work.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office suite of software.
• Design experience is desired.

CLEARANCE REQUIREMENT:

Target salary range: $40,001 - $80,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
SAIC is a premier technology integrator providing full life cycle services and solutions in the technical, engineering, intelligence, and enterprise information technology markets. SAIC is Redefining Ingenuity through its deep customer and domain knowledge to enable the delivery of systems engineering and integration offerings for large, complex projects. SAIC's approximately 15,000 employees are driven by integrity and mission focus to serve customers in the U.S. federal government. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $4.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see .