Rhea Saturn

Mechanical Engineer

United States

About

Mechanical Engineer Level 3, BA, Mechanical Engineering Skills Stress analysis – Design engineering – Requirements application – Drawing release – Collaboration Creo Parametric, FEMAP, NX-Nastran, Mathcad, MATLAB, Excel Selected Career Highlights ➢ Averted potential delays in release by using knowledge of specifications and requirements to identify errors and mistakes and get them corrected before signature release due date. ➢ Design engineer for a tiger team that resolved design mistakes that had caused an inability to install the toilet. Updated the design of the side mounting bracket to accommodate a new adapter plate. ➢ Member of a team of 3 engineers who analyzed all life support tubing and brackets on the Orion crew module for stress and weld fatigue and met a short analysis deadline.

Experience

  • Mechanical Engineer III at X-energy
    May 2023 - Aug 2025 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Lockheed Martin (Denver, Colorado, United States)
    • Mechanical Engineer
      Feb 2021 - Feb 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Mechanical Engineer Level 2, Stress Analyst, Mechanical Ground Support & Equipment Group Promoted to independently perform structural analysis and create stress reports for new designs and revisions of the mechanical ground support equipment (MGSE) supporting spacecraft flight hardware.

    • Associate Mechanical Engineer
      Nov 2019 - Jan 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

      Associate Mechanical Engineer, Stress Analyst, Central Stress Group Responsible for creating structural analysis stress reports for new designs and revisions of MGSE supporting spacecraft flight hardware.

    • Associate Mechanical Engineer
      Sep 2018 - Nov 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos

      Associate Mechanical Engineer, Orion Responsible for analyzing Orion life support systems for the Stress Group and designing secondary structures for EM-2, the first crewed mission of Orion. Brackets and mounting features needed to be designed and released soon after the design of the new electronics box before life support tubing was complete.

  • Engineer at Carnegie Mellon University
    2015 - 2015 · Less than a year

    Grants: Motion-free Imaging for Lunar Roving Summer 2015 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Designed and manufactured a mechanical system for a light weight and robust camera robotics system that met localization, navigation, hazard avoidance, and resolution performance requirements to aid mass reduction requirements for the Andy rover, and related system engineering trades. Projects: Scotty, Fall 2015 Small Robotic CubeRover for the Google Lunar XPRIZE Performed structural design and fabrication of mechanical systems of a standardized CubeRover, delivered two driving prototypes, and made recommendations for future work to make Scotty flight ready Andy Spring 2015 Lunar Rover for the Google Lunar XPRIZE Team member developing a mobile robot with the mission of exploring a lunar pit and winning the XPRIZE challenge

  • Paralegal at Smith Pachter McWhorter PLC
    2013 - 2014 · 1 yr

    Assisted lawyers to research, present and organize using desktop computers.