Engineering Project Assistant Onsite - Collins Aerospace

Collins Aerospace, an RTX company, is a leader in technologically advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defense industry. Collins Aerospace has the capabilities, comprehensive portfolio, and expertise to solve customers’ toughest challenges and to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving global market.

As an Engineering Project Assistant, you will be responsible for assisting software and systems engineers with administrative, documentation, process, and general engineering related support activities. Individuals must demonstrate the ability to support several engineers, providing a wide variety of administrative and computer skills to assist engineering projects.

You will strive in this role if you have a strict attention to detail and you are a self-motivated individual who excels in a dynamic environment.

• Assisting the Test Engineering team with local test setups for seat and seat subsystem testing.
• Acquiring raw materials and hardware to support testing activities.
• Supporting the execution of seat and seat subsystem testing onsite.
• Partnering with Manufacturing Engineering to procure materials and hardware for fixtures used by both Production and Test Engineering.
• Working with Quality Engineering to ensure hardware and materials align with the required seat configuration and test requirements.
• Managing parts ordering and tracking through Ariba.
• Supporting facility organization.
• Tracking COPS parts.
• Creating Bills of Material (BOMs) and ordering required parts.
• Providing occasional travel support for offsite seat testing activities.
• Edits format of required documentation
• Prepare presentations
• Coordinates the interaction of project/program team and support functions to communicate schedule and status
• Often facilitates internal and/or external meetings
• Assists with tracking of Change Orders
• Participates in status meetings

• Typically requires an AA/AS degree (or other 2-year post high school training) with a minimum of 6 years of relevant experience
• Experience assisting engineering teams

• Experience working with ejection seats and ejection seat technicians, with a focus on hands-on work inside the inside engineering labs.

Some of our competitive benefits package includes:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees