AEROSPACE ENGINEER AVIONICS - Contractor / Consultant

About the Team

AeroTECs Engineering Services Department supports and provides comprehensive, full-service aerospace engineering services to customers in aircraft design and certification. The Engineering Services Department is responsible for providing engineering consulting services related to aircraft performance, similarity analysis, reviewing and supporting certification activities, determining test requirements, and planning and documenting testing to meet customer needs. The Engineering Services Department provides several areas of expertise in Flight Sciences, Electrical Systems, Mechanical Systems, Powerplant & FIFA, Air Systems, Cabin Safety, Structures and Liaison Engineering.

About the Role

The Aerospace Engineer, Avionics position is responsible for supporting the responsible avionic systems engineer in developing, testing and certifying systems for a project. This role requires the significant exercise of independent discretion and judgment in matters of significance.

In This Role You Will:

1. Review and support Avionics Certification Activities, including but not limited to:

• Create and review Certification Plans.
• Create and review Component Qualification Test Plans, Qualification Test Procedures and Qualification Test Reports.
• Review qualification by similarity and/or analysis reports.
• Review system safety documents (PSSA, SFHA, AFHA, SSA and Particular Risk Analysis).
• Create, review and approve ground test procedures, flight test procedures and their corresponding test reports.
• Generating requirements (aircraft and systems level)
• Perform Component Drawing Reviews.
• Complete aircraft assembly and installation drawing reviews.
• Participate in Systems Design Reviews.
• Coordinate with suppliers to review technical data, certification requirements and troubleshoot any issues with supplies.
• Coordinate with certification authorities to seek clarification on requirements.
• Review certification guidance material (advisory circulars, etc.) and incorporate the necessary guidance into the certification plans.
• Create, review and approve interface control documents and any sub level writing interface documents.

2. Support Avionics Flight Testing Activities, including but not limited to:

• Discuss, write and review test plans and preparation activities with flight test team.
• Help prepare and review pre and post flight briefings.
• Monitor live flight data, typically via telemetry, during flight test on aircraft.
• Process, analyze, and draw conclusions from post flight data.
• Make assessments to ensure safety of flight determination.
• Document flight test design problems for long term fix.
• Generate and review appropriate limitations documentation.

3. Complete special projects and tasks assigned by Group Lead.

The Skills You Will Bring (Minimum):

Education:

• Three (3) year degree in Engineering (Aerospace, Avionics, Electrical, or Instrumentation).
  • Other Engineering fields may be considered.

Experience:

Three (5+) years’ aerospace engineering experience in Avionics, including experience working with avionic systems utilized in vehicle design (DO-254) (Comm/NAV/ Surveillance/ FMS/ Displays/ Recorders/ CAS/ antenna installations). Rotorcraft DO-178 experience preferred.

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and/or hear. The employee is frequently required to sit, stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. Must have the ability to sit for long periods of time.
• The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
• Travel (flying and driving) to various domestic and international worksites and client offices are required. Frequent travel required to the Moses Lake Facility for extended periods of time during scheduled flight test operations.

This position must meet export control compliance requirements. To meet export control compliance requirements, a “U.S. Person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. §120.15 is required.  “U.S. Person” includes U.S. Citizen, Lawful Permanent Resident, Refugee, or Asylee.

AeroTEC is an equal opportunity employer.