Electrical Engineer

Location: Elizabeth City, NC

Required: US Citizenship

Ability to acquire a Secret clearance

Duties/ Responsibilities

The Electrical Engineer shall support USCG Aviation Electrical Wiring Interconnect System (EWIS) to increase aircraft reliability and safety of flight and applies electrical engineering principles to investigate, analyze, plan, design, develop, implement, test, and evaluate airborne platform wiring and electronics. Tasking includes, but is not limited to:

Perform electrical engineering design and analysis of Government aircraft wiring to include, but not limited to:

- Use electrical engineering principles and practices to complete Engineering Service Requests (ESR).

- Review of engineering drawings and technical data for compliance with USCG and Other Government Agencies (OGA).

- Review of industry standards (i.e., NA VAIR 01-lA-505 and SAE AS50881) for safety, reliability, and maintainability; ensure aviation systems will meet their intended design performance.

- Provide electrical expertise as a USCG engineering authority and resource and includes, but is not limited to the following tasks:

- Provide electrical engineering support of wiring harness design, installation, modification, corrosion prevention, Quality Assurance (QA), maintenance, and testing.

- Compute aircraft electrical load analysis in support of system modifications and new electrical equipment installation.

- Investigate failure of USCG aircraft wiring, electrical, and corrosion discrepancies and institute corrective design changes and maintenance procedures.

- Work with the Wiring Program Manager to monitor external military and civilian markets in an effort to research, prototype, and promote the use of new and improved EWIS products for potential USCG applicability, improve wiring awareness and increase fleet readiness.

- Perform EWIS failure analysis, life limit analysis (Reliability Centered Maintenance), and institute corrective design changes and maintenance procedures.

- Identify electrical testing parameters for USCG assets.

- Work collectively with ASB wiring configuration and Automatic Circuit Analysis Test System (ACATS) personnel to support Product Line wiring requirements.

- Research, analyze, develop, and implement new EWIS products and tools to support wiring maintainers in the improvement of aircraft reliability.

- Record and track tasking.

- Attend meetings as required pertaining to tasks identified.

- Travel as required for tasking JAW 11.0 of the contract.

- Provide wiring presentations as required to inform USCG personnel.

Requirements

Required Skills/Abilities

• Be skilled in the use of standard and specialized electrical and electronic tools and equipment of the discipline as they pertain to aviation wiring without regard to aircraft type.

• Have excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
• Proficient personal computer skills to include a strong working knowledge of standard Microsoft Office suite of products.

• Have in-depth knowledge of the NA VAIR 0l-1A-505(series), NA VAIR 0l-IA509-3, and SAE AS50881.
• Have a solid knowledge of Electromagnetic Interference/Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMI/EMC) concerns on the aircraft in accordance with MIL-STD-461 and MIL-STD-464.

• Have experience in aircraft electrical load and power source capacity analysis in accordance with MIL-STD-704 and MIL-E-7016.

Nice to Have Skills

• Project Management Experience
• Cyber Security Experience

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering. The degree shall be from an Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) college.

• Minimum often (10) years of experience in aviation (rotary and/or fixed wing aircraft) electrical engineering.
  Travel Requirement:

• The Contractor may be required to travel within the Continental U.S. (CONUS), Hawaii, Alaska and Puerto Rico during the performance of this task order. Travel is normally only one or two trips at most over a year.
  Clearance Requirement:

• Team Member must complete background investigation of at least a Tier I (formerly called a NACI) to comply with the Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD)-12.

Benefits

We are proud to offer competitive compensation and benefits packages to include

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Basic Life
• Health Saving Account
• 401K matching
• Three weeks of PTO/Sick
• 11 Paid Holidays
• Pre-Approved Online Training