AEROSPACE ENGINEER - SYSTEM SAFETY - Contractor/Consultant

AeroTEC provides comprehensive, full-service aerospace services and solutions to customers in aircraft design, testing, instrumentation, certification, manufacturing, modifications and maintenance with facilities in Seattle, Wichita, and Moses Lake.

About the Team

AeroTEC’s Engineering Services Division 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, Systems Safety position is responsible for supporting the focal systems engineer by design, developing, testing and certifying a system/s for a project. This role requires the significant exercise of independent discretion and judgment in matters of significance.

In This Role You Will

1. Generate System and Parts safety requirements, typically:
   • Create system safety requirements
   • Create validation and verification plans for safety requirements
   • Assess compliance of systems, components, installation and operation for systems against the defined requirements
   • Communicate the system needs to internal and external consumers of the design
   • Compare design solutions for safety
   • Determine key parameters for designs, including AFHA, SFHA, DFMEA and FMEA/FMES, Fault trees at unit, system and aircraft design level
   • Knowledge of the System design process.
   • Knowledge to generate Safety analysis, including AFHA, SFHA, ALRs, SLRs, FMEA, DFMEA and other documentation per SAE ARP 4754A and SAE ARP 4761
2. Review and support 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 system safety documents (AFHA, PSSA, FMEA, SSA and CCAs).
   • Create, review and approve ground test procedures, flight test procedures and their corresponding test reports.
   • Participate in Systems Design Reviews.
   • Coordinate with suppliers to review technical data, safety process and design compliance with suppliers.
   • 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.
   • Determine action for special certification requirements and suitable data capture methods
   • Analysis of mechanical failures and determine root cause and corrective actions
   • Review of requirements for completeness, suitable verification and validation methods
3. Write test reports.
4. Complete special projects and tasks assigned by Group Lead.

The Skills You Will Bring (Minimum):

Education

• Four (4) year degree in Engineering (Aerospace, Avionics, Electrical, or Instrumentation).
  • Other Engineering fields may be considered.

Experience

• Four (4) years Aerospace engineering experience in Mechanical Systems, including experience in at least one of the following: Mechanical Systems, Flight Control Systems, Landing Gear Controls, Hydraulic System and/or Brake Control Systems utilized in aircraft.

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.
• Infrequent travel required (<10%) to AeroTEC facilities and potential conferences and meetings (flight and automobile travel).  

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.

AeroTEC is an equal opportunity employer.