Senior Advanced Electrical Engineer

Quick Facts

Senior Advanced Electrical Engineer focused on avionics design changes and avionics product design expertise.

Global Production Engineering Services (GPES) team supporting avionics products in the manufacturing phase.

Hybrid schedule; based in Olathe, KS.

Description

This newly created role is responsible for creating avionics design changes and providing avionics product design expertise to sustain and grow avionics business. The GPES team focuses on improving supply chain performance by maintaining and improving designs for avionics products currently in the manufacturing phase. You will collaborate daily with globally distributed staff across product design centers and factories and report to an Engineering Manager.

Responsibilities

• Use advanced avionics knowledge and engineering discipline to complete engineering tasks.
• Provide design expertise to support product design engineers, test design engineers, manufacturing engineers, and production staff to resolve issues with product design, modification, upgrades, customer investigations, supplier investigations, obsolescence, and test system design changes.
• Support product transitions from development to manufacturing phases and gain design authority delegation.
• Use delegated design authority to review and approve class II product changes, coordinating with internal and external customers for approval and notification.
• Provide design expertise for field failure investigations, suspect counterfeit parts investigations, product export/import classifications, and FRACAS (failure reporting, analysis, and corrective action system).
• Provide MRB engineering disposition authority for nonconforming parts.
• Communicate with internal and external customers and suppliers to resolve problems such as supply chain delivery disruptions, no-fault-found situations, defect escapes, warranty review, and first-year-in-service failures.
• Mentor junior engineers while defining and revising engineering processes for the GPES team.

Requirements

YOU MUST HAVE

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution in a technical discipline such as science, technology, engineering, mathematics.
• 6+ years working in the avionics or electronics industry.

WE VALUE

• Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Timely decisions in the face of complexity while balancing analysis with decisiveness.
• Ability to estimate business impact of engineering solutions.
• Self-motivation and ability to work with little supervision while resolving complex situations and problems.
• Knowledge of avionics products and systems (cockpit displays, electromechanical instruments, flight controls, FMS, autopilot, inertial navigation, GPS, DME, ILS, nav/com radios, satcom, radio altimeters, weather radar, transponders, TCAS, EGPWS, flight recorders).
• Understanding of FAR 21 (OEM) and FAR 145 (repair) regulation concepts.
• Familiarity with DO-160 and DO-254.
• Understanding of product and test system configuration management.
• Ability to learn and comply with import and export regulations (EAR and ITAR).
• U.S. person status required for U.S. export control compliance.

SPONSORSHIP

• No visa sponsorship; must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Benefits

• Employer-subsidized medical, dental, vision and life insurance.
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
• 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts and health savings accounts.
• Employee assistance program and educational assistance.
• Parental leave and 12 paid holidays.
• Paid time off for vacation, personal and sick time.