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Senior Mechanical Engineer

SAIC

Indianapolis, INJob$80–120K/yrSeen 6 days agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago

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Compensation
$80–120K/yr
Location
Indianapolis, IN
Work Authorization
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Job overview

The Senior Mechanical Engineer – Production Support serves as the primary engineering focal for production-related technical issues, coordinating with quality, procurement, production, and engineering teams. The role leads troubleshooting, supports non-conformance disposition, and reviews engineering deviations and waivers for government and defense customers. It also develops processes and documentation for production transition and supports design changes, supplier issues, readiness reviews, and continuous improvement.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Production Engineering SupportProduct Lifecycle ManagementDevelopment-to-Manufacturing ProcessesNew Product IntroductionSustaining EngineeringManufacturing

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Relevant Engineering or Master's5+ Years Experience or 3+ With Master's

Full job description

Description

The Senior Mechanical Engineer – Production Support will serve as the primary engineering focal for all production-related technical issues, working closely with Quality Assurance, Procurement, Purchasing, Production and Engineering to ensure smooth, repeatable, and compliant build processes.

This role will lead troubleshooting of mechanical and electromechanical production issues, support and disposition non-conformances (NCRs), and review/approve engineering deviations and waivers for U.S. government and defense customers. The engineer will develop and refine processes and documentation required to transition products from development to full-rate production, including DFM/DFA reviews, production traveler and work instruction creation, rand routings. A strong background in mechanical systems, electronics packaging, material finishes/coatings, 3D printing/additive manufacturing, precision machining, etching, and cable and harness assembly is required. The candidate must be able to read and interpret complex 2D engineering drawings and 3D CAD models, including GD&T, tolerance stack-ups, and configuration-controlled baselines, and must be familiar with IPC J-STD-001, IPC-A-610, and relevant MIL-SPEC/MIL-STD requirements, MBOMs, parts lists/BOM structures, and configuration management practices. Additional responsibilities include driving root cause and corrective action (RCCA), supporting design changes and engineering change orders (ECOs/ECNs), collaborating on supplier manufacturing issues, participating in production readiness reviews (PRRs), and contributing to continuous improvement.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

  • Minimum of Bachelors degree in relevant engineering discipline and five (5) years or more experience, or three (3) years with Masters degree

  • Strong background in production engineering support

  • Experience in product life cycle (such as transition from development to production) PDM/PLM background a plus

  • Understanding of development-to-manufacturing processes and New Product Introduction (NPI)

  • Experience with product life cycle activities, such as transition from development to production and sustaining engineering

  • Prior exposure to a manufacturing or production environment

Target salary range: $80,001 - $120,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

REQNUMBER: 2618167

SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability

How this job compares

Set against the 7,501 open Mechanical Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$80–120K/yr
  • Indiana median$92–160K/yr37 salary ranges
  • US median$106–160K/yr4,466 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $100K, is 21% below the Indiana median midpoint ($126K) — in the lowest quarter of Mechanical Engineer salary ranges in Indiana.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 89 open Mechanical Engineer jobs in Indiana and 7,501 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Indiana
Experience
This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; Mechanical Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (6,193 postings).
Education
5,294 of the 7,501 open Mechanical Engineer jobs (71%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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