is seeking candidates for a
Principal Engineer to support the
Propulsion Division, MAD. This position is located in Huntsville, AL.
Job Responsibilities/Duties:- Provide engineering support for Environmental Control Systems relating to helicopters, unmanned air vehicles, and fixed-wing platforms.
- Provide written recommendations regarding field inquiries concerning serviceability of Environmental Control Systems and interpretation of airworthiness requirements.
- Review test plans, test reports, and analyses concerning compliance with specification and/or qualification requirements.
- Provide recommendations on the requirements coverage, success criteria, and acceptability of the test plans and reports, risks or potential risks of the test plan and report, and corrective actions or improvements to the test plan and report.
- Provide support for test witnessing, evaluation of test results, and/or post-test inspections and recommendations regarding requirements coverage of tests and post-test hardware condition and performance.
- Review changes in designs and engineering change proposals and document airworthiness concerns.
- Support failure investigations and procedure validations/verifications.
- Provide technical and project engineering support for Environmental Control related improvements developed under the Component Improvement Program.
- Provide support for Depot and repair activities to include Maintenance and Overhaul (M&O) plan and hardware repair reviews, and support of Product Verification Audits (PVAs).
- Provide support for alternate source evaluations, intercept actions, and Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) engineering requests.
- Review quality escapes and Manufacturing Review Boards (MRBs) and document airworthiness concerns.
- Provide technical support for Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) and/or Cost Wise Readiness activities relating to Environmental Control Systems.
- Perform data reduction and analysis to evaluate Environmental Control and component performance and provide recommendations on the compliance of performance submittals with respect to applicable requirements along with detailed studies to determine corrective actions or improvements.
- Other duties as assigned.
Required Experience:- BS in Engineering or related discipline and 15 years of experience.
- Ability to read and understand engineering drawings and parts lists.
- Documented working knowledge of performing thermal analyses.
- Experience using/developing various software tools to conduct Steady State and Transient Thermodynamic Design & Analysis (Heating, Cooling, Dehumidification Calculations) on Air, Water, Hydraulic Fluid, Gas (Dry Air), Vapor, and Steam Systems.
- The candidate should have documented experience performing risk analysis, reliability analysis, and data reduction and analysis to evaluate Environmental Control performance, providing recommendations on the compliance of performance submittals with respect to applicable requirements and detailed studies to determine corrective actions.
Must be a U.S. citizen and have the ability to obtain/maintain a DoW security clearance. - Must be able to travel up to 15% of the time.
Locations Huntsville, AL
