Sr. Staff Engineer Airworthiness - Technical Excellence

Description

The company's AWWSC directorate in Melbourne, FL has an immediate opening for a senior staff airworthiness engineer on its cybersecurity team.

The role supports technical excellence work, including policy, processes and procedures, education and training, tools, common products, digital strategy, and shared methods across disciplines.

The group sits within Governance & Independence and focuses on workforce development, processes and tools. It aligns disciplines across the full lifecycle of an air system to raise technical quality in each one.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain processes, tools, training and long-range roadmaps.
• Set up and maintain governance, process definitions, roles, tools and the AWWSC workforce.
• Advise programs on governance, processes and procedures specific to each program.
• Create and maintain metrics for the AWWSC, programs and staff.
• Assess, build, sustain and deliver training.
• Represent the AWWSC on sector councils.
• Lead collaboration with the enterprise and industry.

Requirements

• Hold a bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) with at least 14 years of experience, a master's in STEM with 12 years, or a PhD with 10 years.
• Have built plans and certification bases that turn DoW policy, MIL-HDBK-516, and civil and international standards into solutions that meet program goals for airworthiness and cybersecurity approvals.
• Have reviewed and coordinated other airworthiness and/or cybersecurity engineers, and worked with internal disciplines at every level of the air system: design, fabrication, test, installation, operation and maintenance.
• Have carried out functional analysis, timeline analysis, detailed trade studies, requirements allocation, interface definition, and hardware and software specifications that meet applicable regulations, standards and guidelines.
• Have worked on airworthiness and/or cybersecurity activities across the air system lifecycle.
• Have a proven record of working cross-functionally with subject matter experts, engineers, analysts and senior leaders.
• Be able to obtain a U.S. Government in-scope DoD Secret security clearance or higher.
• Preferred: Communicate clearly in writing and speaking, giving clear guidance and running workshops for engineers.
• Preferred: Help modernize the team by setting vision, focus, guiding principles, essential capabilities and goals to build a robust digital-centric organization.
• Preferred: Familiarity with MIL-HDBK-516C or D.
• Preferred: Experience developing or modifying civil or military aircraft.
• Preferred: Deep technical expertise and strong knowledge of related disciplines.
• Preferred: Solve complex technical problems using ingenuity and creativity, working with little direction.
• Preferred: Experience with domestic or international standards development organizations.
• Preferred: Experience with discipline-based maturity models.
• Preferred: Experience with digital engineering approaches and methods such as MBSE tools.
• Preferred: Familiarity with the DoW acquisition process.
• Preferred: A current active in-scope DoD Secret security clearance or higher, and the ability to obtain and maintain Special Program Access (PAR/SAP).

Conditions

Based in Melbourne, FL.

Travel is required for 10% of the time.

A Secret clearance is required for start.

Relocation assistance may be available.

The base salary range is $166,500.00 - $249,700.00. This is a general guide, and the offer depends on scope, responsibilities, experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

The application period is estimated at 20 days from the posting date, and may be shortened or extended based on business needs and candidate availability.

Benefits

• Depending on the position, overtime, shift differential and a discretionary bonus may be available on top of base pay.
• Annual bonuses reward individual contribution and let employees share in company results.
• Vice President and Director roles may be eligible for Long Term Incentives.
• Health insurance, life and disability insurance, a savings plan, paid company holidays, and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and personal business.