Job Listing Description

Overview

Responsibilities

• Providing technical guidance across electrical wiring design and the integration of electrical systems
• Determining and interpreting the certification basis and establishing compliance strategies - including means and methods of compliance - and driving those strategies into requirements, engineering, test, and manufacturing execution
• Develop and manage requirements
    ? Generate, review, and approve requirements
    ? Conduct trade studies, analyses, and test programs as necessary to validate or verify that the wiring system meets all EMI/EMC, functional, performance and safety requirements
    ? Work with various company departments to ensure electrical wiring designs meet all interfacing system and aircraft-level requirements
• Lead EWIS system safety efforts
    ? Coordinate inputs for the EWIS Risk Assessment Tool
    ? Facilitate and perform Zonal Safety Analysis and Particular Risk Analysis
    ? Help integrate findings into the appropriate System Safety Assessments
• Generate, review, and approve
    ? Engineering wiring diagrams, schematics, and design specifications
    ? Component test plans and reports
    ? Compliance documentation
• Developing, reviewing, and approving certification-related documents, including
    ? Issue Papers, Special Conditions, Equivalent Levels of Safety, etc.
    ? Certification Plans and Summaries
    ? Test Plans and Reports
    ? Design and Analysis Reports
    ? Requests for Conformity, Statements of Compliance
• Working with and mentoring multiple engineering teams with a mix of aerospace and non-aerospace backgrounds to
    ? Establish relevant design development and certification plans that will support Type Certification
    ? Convey and document requirements in a way that clearly decomposes the regulations and guidance material
    ? Develop engineering specifications
    ? Review designs, develop solutions, and ensure compliance with the airworthiness standards

Required

• Previous FAA certification experience with electrical wiring systems
• Knowledgeable about and able to differentiate between Part 23 Amendment 64 and Part 25 Subpart H regulations with respect to electrical wiring systems
• Expert-level understanding of electrical wiring component qualification and flammability requirements
• In depth knowledge of SAE AS50881, AC 43.13-1B, and other EWIS related standards, including the reasoning and intent behind each standard and associated verification methods
• Basic knowledge of SAE ARP4761 and ARP4754
• Ability to question traditional assumptions in the application of regulations, guidance material, and engineering specifications
• Experience with generating, reviewing, and maintaining wiring diagrams, electrical schematics, and engineering specifications
• Excellent problem solving, communication, and technical writing skills
• At least 10 years of relevant aviation or aerospace industry experience
• B.S. in an applicable engineering discipline
• Proficient in English
• Proficient with Microsoft Office products
• Able to relocate permanently