Airworthiness & Safety Engineer, Lead

Regular

The Lead Airworthiness (AW) & Safety Engineer Leads airworthiness and product safety activities for complex Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) throughout the product lifecycle. Develops certification strategies, plans, requirements, and compliance approaches supporting military and civil authorities. Coordinates cross-functional engineering teams to resolve safety and certification requirements and support flight releases and continued airworthiness. Engages with customers, regulatory agencies, and senior leadership on certification, audits, RFIs, and RFPs.

• Develops and performs technical airworthiness and product safety planning, internally driven, customer contract and regulatory driven
• Product requirements development support based on expected market, customer, and regulatory requirements
• Verification support including development of airworthiness and product safety approach, plans, basis of certifications, means of compliance, and certification activities for complex total systems
• Ensures the logical and systematic realization of customer airworthiness and product safety compliance into UAS solutions to meet program and business objectives (e.g. flight releases, military certification, type certification and supplemental type certifications, continued airworthiness, and operational or airspace Integration)
• Reviews and coordinates with engineering disciplines at all levels of total system including concept development, requirements, design, test, manufacturing, operation, maintenance and disposal
• Works with both military and civil airworthiness authorities for certification of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)
• Facilitates changes to product designs, testing, analyses, maintenance, operations and documentation in order to satisfy certification and product safety requirements
• Supports Field Service Bulletin and Problem Report support related to Airworthiness and product safety
• Tracks and reports product improvements that provide airworthiness certification value, resolve airworthiness or product safety deficiencies or improve airworthiness or safety of products
• Participates with other senior managers to establish strategic plans and objectives
• Leads Airworthiness efforts with the support of broad cross-functional teams
• Facilitates customer Safety and AW Accreditation audits supporting company processes
• Supports Requests for Information (RFI) and Request for Proposals (RFP) in the Airworthiness and Product Safety capacity
• Communicates AV’s AW and Product Safety position to Customer and Regulatory bodies
• Other duties as assigned

• BS degree in Engineering required is required or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
• Minimum of 8+ years of directly related experience
• A minimum of 4 years of relevant experience in Airworthiness related work
• Experienced in and has demonstrated strong systems engineering background
• Experienced working in a highly technical, fast-paced environment with both Domestic and International customers
• Has a detailed understanding of Military, FAA, EU, NATO, and EASA airworthiness and certification processes and standards
• Understanding of US Government and international safety requirements (UL, CE, REACH, RoHS, etc)
• Has a proven track record of performance on successful programs
• Experience communicating with executive level management, Customers, and Customer AW authorities
• Takes initiative to own tasks and can perform with little/no daily management or oversight

• A minimum of 4 years of relevant experience in Product Safety related work desired
• Prior experience with Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Unmanned Systems…