Production Support Senior Structural and Systems Installation Designer

Profile (Overview of role)

The Production Support Senior Structural and Systems Installation Designer will be responsible for producing clean and efficient aircraft structure and systems installation designs within the framework of a new aircraft manufacturing program, meeting all appropriate industry regulations.

Duties & Responsibilities

Essential Functions

• Create both solid models, instanced with a PLM environment, and 2D drawings that meet all appropriate ANSI and industry standards.
• Be proficient with GD&T standards.
• Be proficient with mechanical design practices.
• Be familiar with typical aircraft structures and systems architecture.
• Be an Intermediate or Expert user of Catia v5 and Enovia, as well as common work packages, such as Generative Sheet Metal Design.
• Be able to optimize competing design criteria.
• Efficiently reviewing certification data of existing designs and using that data to evolve or optimize that design.
• Work cordially and effectively with other support groups, end users, and consumers of your designs.
• Be able to explain your design decisions clearly and succinctly.
• Be comfortable asking for input from senior members of the engineering department.
• Be able to mentor junior design team members with Catia functionality and aircraft structural design practices.
• Be able to work effectively as part of the Design Team, but also as a member of the larger Engineering Department.

Additional Functions

• Actively works to improve daily processes and ensures all work meets customer requirements.
• Maintains a current knowledge of developments in the field of specialty and/or other related aircraft fields to recommend innovations to improve the quality and effectiveness of company product.
• Performs other duties such as Internal Audit Support, Airworthiness containment activities and corrective action implementation.
• Production liaison support experience including dispositioning non-conformances and coordinating their implementation within an aerospace manufacturing environment would be an asset.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Engineering, a related curriculum, or equivalent. combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential functions of the job.
• 10 years in the specific technical discipline or 15 years broad engineering experience in several technical disciplines with Bachelors.
• Experience in aerospace manufacturing would be considered an asset.
• Liaison, providing production support, (repairs, etc), would be an asset.

Skills

• Team player with a strong sense of initiative, responsibility, and good judgment.
• Able to manage several concurrent projects and meet tight deadlines.
• Able to think quickly and creatively in a fast-moving and changing business context.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.