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Job Description Summary

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities:

• Learn complex test facility operations while gaining overall engine mechanics and systems level knowledge.

• Utilize leadership skills in project management type setting, overseeing day-to-day operations and identify opportunities to improve current processes for engine prep, de-prep, test, and teardown.

• Lead integration of NPI within the test operations.

• Ability to learn how to troubleshoot issues with engine operation, instrumentation, and test facilities.

• Able to extract and interpret engine test data.

• Ability to communicate with cross-functional teams to facilitate the identification of root cause and corrective action for any issues found during engine prep- de-prep, setup, test, and/or teardowns.

• Develops integrated, appropriately phased and scoped program and resource plan across multi-disciplined team to deliver validated products that meet technical, cost, and schedule requirements.  Manages execution through technical communication, proactive reviews, problem resolution, and risk abatement.

• Understands applicable regulations, establishes means of compliance, plans, and executes analysis/test to support components, engine, and aircraft systems cert/qual requirements. Ensures certification and qualification documentation is approved in a timely manner.

• Creates, develops, matures, and leverages innovative technologies and processes that provide competitive advantages.

• Understands the key factors that cause failures; identifies reliability risks and designs mitigation plan; leverages lessons learned; anticipates and understands failure modes based on predicted environment, materials, and design.

• Establishes feasible test strategy based on technical requirements, program requirements, and customer needs to understand, advance, or validate a design or concept.

• Develops and manages overall technical plan to deliver test platform in alignment with cost and schedule requirements. Identifies and manages execution risk and opportunities.

• Understands electrical, electronic, software validation and fit checks to support any troubleshooting associated to their failures impacting Test operations.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelors degree (in Engineering preferred) from an accredited college or university and 3+ years of aircraft engine testing processes and troubleshooting experience (or a minimum high school diploma / GED with an additional 4+ years of aircraft engine testing processes and troubleshooting experience).

Desired Characteristics:

• Lean Six Sigma training.

• Demonstrated knowledge/experience with aircraft/engine test, maintenance hardware and procedures.

• Previous "hands on" experience regarding the installation and/or maintenance of an engine test cell.

• Experience using MS Office Suite products; to include Word, Excel, Project, and Outlook

• Capable of working directly Test Technicians, Engineers, Quality Leaders, and different levels of management.

• Humble: respectful, receptive, agile, eager to learn.

• Transparent: shares critical information, speaks with candor, contributes constructively.

• Focused: customer driven, action planning, quick learner, strategically prioritizes work, committed.

• Leadership ability: strong communicator, decision-maker, collaborative.

• Problem solver: continuous improvement-analytical-minded, challenges existing processes, critical thinker

• Proven analytical and organizational ability.