Job Details

WS - Avionics Engineer-CA-1909
We have an immediate opening for an Avionics Engineer with our client in CA who is a leading supplier of space products and has a growing presence in the US Aircraft industry specializing in galleys design, Mechanical Systems, and Freighter conversions in CATIA, also to provide engineering, project development and technical consulting services to the aerospace industry. This is a remote position.

Department: Engineering

Reports To: Director, Engineering

Summary

Coordinates, manages, oversees and ensures activities related to the success of the avionics engineering group. Facilitates interdepartmental cohesiveness between and including avionics engineering, certification and supply chain; overseeing the activities of other companies, vendors and individuals by performing the following duties:

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Design aircraft electrical systems and installations and generate substantiation documents that will be acceptable to the FAA.
• Must be able to communicate clearly with the engineering team, other GTI departments and vendors as required to facilitate smooth production and substantiation of GTI electrical designs.
• Responsible for preparing meeting materials and presenting electrical/avionics status updates, including the status of drawings and substantiation documents, as required to keep all parties informed of progress, gain team consensus and ensure progress is made, overseeing the avionics/electrical package to completion.
• Responsible for planning and overseeing the avionics/electrical drawing and substantiation packages
• Will prepare staffing plans, anticipate critical path issues and set a schedule to meet program schedules and budgets.
• May use computer-assisted engineering, design software and equipment to perform engineering tasks.

Summary of Education, Experience & Certification

Bachelor's degree (B.S.) in engineering and a minimum of 15 years industry experience including experience in aircraft avionics design, installation, integration and certification; or a Master's degree (M. S.) or equivalent; and 10 years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Thorough knowledge of electrical drawing development and substantiation methods
• Must have detailed knowledge of FAA requirements for substantiation of aircraft electrical systems, and a working knowledge of the joint airworthiness requirements
• Must be able to set the quality standard for the GTI Avionics department and put standards and check processes in place
• Must possess a clear understanding of how to manage multiple priorities and competing tasks while making decisions as to priority of tasks and assignment of team members.
• Must possess the ability to work constructively with other departments within Company
• Technologies to gain consensus on the best plan of attack on each engineering issue requiring avionics/electrical input.
• Must have a strong desire to improve the quality and timeliness of GTI avionics/electrical engineering packages

If interested, please send your updated resume in Word doc format to Varsha at ...@keltia-design.com with preferred pay requirements and availability and we will follow up immediately