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Aircraft Certification Engineer

2 months ago


San Diego, California, United States Northrop Grumman Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Principal Airworthiness Engineer - Aircraft Certification to join our team at Northrop Grumman. As a key member of our Office of Independent Airworthiness (OIAW), you will be responsible for ensuring the logical and systematic realization of customer airworthiness certification objectives into system solutions to meet program needs throughout the product lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities
  • Perform technical airworthiness planning and verification support, including development and negotiation of airworthiness plans, bases of certification, means of compliance, and other certification activities for complex total systems.
  • Review and coordinate with other airworthiness engineers as well as internal engineering disciplines performed across the total system to include design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance, and disposal.
  • Perform functional and process analyses, requirements allocation, and definition studies to translate customer requirements into criteria and derived requirements.
  • Ensure the logical and systematic realization of customer airworthiness certification objectives into system solutions to meet program needs throughout the product lifecycle.
Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline with 5 or more years of engineering experience, or Master's with 3 or more years of engineering experience, or PhD with 0 or more years of engineering experience.
  • Familiarity with MIL-HDBK-516B Expanded and-516C.
  • Work experience leading the development of airworthiness plans, a basis of certification, and related activities.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance and Special Access Program (SAP) clearance.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Military aircraft development or modification experience.
  • Current active U.S. Government in-scope DoD Secret security clearance or higher.
  • DoD and Civil Airworthiness Experience.
  • Ability to initiate airworthiness certification process improvement initiatives.
  • Work experience with domestic and international UAS/RPAS airworthiness authorizations and type certifications.
  • Design and Systems Engineering experience in one or more of the following areas: Structures, Flight Technology, Air Vehicle Subsystems, Avionics, Mission Payload Integration, System Safety, Flight Test, Configuration Management.
  • Experience with USAF Airworthiness Policy Directives, Instructions, and Airworthiness Bulletins (AWB).
  • Control Account Management (CAM) and Earned Value Management System (EVMS) experience, including Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) planning and tracking, Earned Value reporting, variance analysis, and Estimate at Complete (EAC) forecasting.
  • Experience in a System Design Responsible (SDR) organization per international regulations with signature authority.
  • Interactions with airworthiness authorities US DoD, MoD International, or civil authorities.
  • Familiarity with European Military Aviation Regulations (EMARs).
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and SharePoint.
What We Offer

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