Job Listing Description

PDS Tech is looking for a Structure and Payloads Design Engineer to join our team in Everett, WA. Come join our team in support of a leading Aerospace and Defense contractor!

Job Title: Struct & Payload Design Engineer
Job Type: Full time; Consultant (12 Months )
Location: Everett, WA or Renton, WA
Schedule:  Monday to Friday; First Shift 
Pay Rate: $70-80 per hour

Payloads is seeking candidates with experience in any of the following areas:
- Engineering support and project leadership within a production system
- Direct engagement working with/for aerospace suppliers or airlines
- Validating/demonstrating compliance to regulatory requirements
- Working with regulators
- Design for manufacturing
- Aircraft cargo compartment and handling system design, integration, and/or certification

Position Responsibilities:
- Develops, integrates and documents interior payload system requirements to establish the system design.
- Performs or oversees approval of analyses and test/inspection results to validate and verify systems and components meet requirements and specifications
- Manages supplier performance, test and production activities and coordinates with the supplier to optimize the design and achieve program goals
- Develops new design/analysis processes and tools to improve the effectiveness, quality and efficiency of the development effort
- Investigates emerging technologies to develop concepts for future product designs to meet projected requirements
- Develops, maintains and modifies interior payload system and component designs, using 3-D Computer Aided Design tools and/or other design methods, to provide product definition to other engineering groups, production operations, suppliers and external customers throughout the product lifecycle

This position is expected to be 100% onsite. The selected candidate will be required to work onsite at one of the listed location options.
- Everett
- Renton

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):
- Bachelors of Science (or greater) from an accredited course of study, in engineering
- 9+ years of experience in engineering, including design, integration, and/or certification or equivalent combination of additional education and relevant experience
- Experience leading a cross-functional team

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):
- Strong understanding and demonstrated experience with FAA Title 14 Part 25 and/or EASA equivalent
- Experience in aerospace interiors, materials and properties, design criteria and release processes
- 5+ years of experience in program or project management, leading project and/or program proposals of varying complexity (including: development and execution of schedule milestones, financial assessments, resource assessments, risk and/or issues management, etc.)
- Demonstrates good problem-solving skills and critical thinking
- Ability to use a variety of media to clearly convey information and ideas to a variety of audiences
- Demonstrated interest in continuous personal learning and development