Job Description
Role Structures Engineer, Senior
Location: Chicopee/Westover AFB, Massachusetts
- Work Arrangement: 100% on-site
- Position Type: Full-time
Responsibilities
Structures Engineering and Airworthiness
- Provide engineering expertise in aircraft structures design and integration, manufacturing, quality and industrial engineering, airworthiness, and configuration and data management.
- Support Interface Control Documents, open-system architecture, hardware, and software as they relate to aircraft structures.
- Provide technical expertise concerning aircraft structural integrity and airworthiness.
- Evaluate system suitability for installation, functionality, reliability, and manufacturing readiness.
- Support the development, procurement, sustainment, and modification of aircraft structural systems, subsystems, components, and equipment.
- Translate production and operational requirements into design, fabrication, and testing objectives.
Standards and Compliance
- Apply AFPD 62-6, related Air Force Instructions, and Airworthiness Bulletins.
- Apply MIL-HDBK-516C Airworthiness Certification Criteria to aircraft systems and subsystems.
- Apply MIL-STD-1530, JSSG-2006, MIL-STD-1568, and MIL-HDBK-516 requirements.
- Assess compliance in areas including:
- Aircraft loads
- Durability and damage tolerance
- Material processes and standards
- Corrosion protection
- Structural dynamics
- Provide safety expertise involving MIL-STD-882, FAA safety requirements, and risk packages.
System Integrity and Safety
- Support Operational Safety, Suitability, and Effectiveness requirements throughout the system life cycle.
- Help establish, implement, and maintain Life Cycle Systems Engineering and OSS&E processes.
- Review and update OSS&E baseline documentation.
- Identify OSS&E elements, track metrics, and coordinate with other organizations to maintain compliance.
- Support System Integrity Programs, including the Mechanical Systems Integrity Program.
- Maintain and update the Critical Safety Item list.
- Monitor airworthiness certification for mission-partner aircraft.
- Conduct or support mishap-risk assessments, contractor-safety evaluations, safety analyses, and resolution of high-priority safety issues.
Requirements and Technical Evaluation
- Translate user requirements into weapon-system requirements for design, development, fabrication, testing, evaluation, fielding, and deployment.
- Translate requirements into prime-contractor engineering documents and procedures.
- Develop and maintain engineering documentation, including specifications, System Requirements Documents, and Systems Engineering Plans.
- Evaluate technical documents for compliance with specifications and airworthiness requirements.
- Summarize findings, recommend changes, and communicate results to the program office.
- Perform technical and mission analyses of existing and future operational requirements.
- Develop system concepts and conduct technology and trade-off assessments of proposed designs and modifications.
- Conduct material-solution analyses leading to design reviews.
Sustainment and Problem Resolution
- Apply DoD, Air Force, and general engineering principles to improve the performance and sustainability of current and future weapon systems.
- Provide rapid-response engineering support for critical supportability problems.
- Conduct problem identification, impact assessments, and corrective-action development.
- Analyze equipment and software deficiencies.
- Recommend, develop, integrate, and test deficiency corrections.
- Evaluate prime-contractor and subcontractor recommendations involving operational and support issues.
Program and Acquisition Support
- Prepare or review technical evaluations, engineering studies, reports, analyses, acquisition plans, and acquisition strategies.
- Develop technical information for staff-summary packages, executive briefings, and milestone approvals.
- Support engineering cost estimates for the Integrated Master Plan, Integrated Master Schedule, and Systems Engineering Detail Schedule.
- Provide engineering guidance during contractor source selections when required.
- Support implementation of the Systems Engineering Plan and identify gaps requiring corrective action.
- Participate in value-stream mapping and Air Force Smart Operations for the 21st Century.
Meetings and Reviews
Support project meetings, working groups, and reviews, including:
- System Requirements Review
- Preliminary Design Review
- Critical Design Review
- Test Readiness Review
- Technical Coordination Meeting
- Technical Interchange Meeting
- Functional Configuration Audit
- Physical Configuration Audit
- Production Readiness Review
- Program Management Review
Required Experience
- Bachelor's degree or higher in an ABET-accredited engineering discipline
- At least 15 years of relevant technical or professional experience
- At least five years of DoD experience
- Demonstrated expertise in aircraft structures design and integration, manufacturing, quality or industrial engineering, airworthiness, and configuration or data management
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance
- Proficiency with:
- Microsoft Outlook
- Word
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- SharePoint
- Teams
- Adobe Acrobat
Benefits
The customizable benefits package includes:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage
- Accidental death and dismemberment insurance
- Supplemental income-protection programs
- 401(k) with company match
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Employee Assistance Program
- Education and certification reimbursement
- Employee Discount Program
- Paid time off and holidays
Additional Information
- The selected applicant will undergo a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
- Compensation depends on factors including location, responsibilities, education, knowledge, experience, competencies, contract affordability, and organizational requirements.
- The position will remain posted until a suitable candidate is selected or the opening is closed.
Job Tags
Extra income, Full time, Contract work, Temporary work, For contractors, For subcontractor, Work at office, Flexible hours