Aeronautical Engineer

Location: Kansas

This master requisition covers all position levels for Aeronautical Engineer at our Client. Your application to this master requisition will allow our recruiters to assess your skills and experience, and determine the most appropriate position level.

Job Description:

Conduct and document aircraft aerodynamic and performance analysis, or alternatively the creation of gas turbine propulsion characteristics in support of aircraft performance analysis, for commercial aircraft and special mission derivatives.

Support aircraft upgrade projects, new product development, marketing requests, production line and field/fleet issues.

Provide occasional inter-organizational and outside customer communications. The candidate may represent the organization in coordinating regularly with project groups, technical publications, and marketing.

Required Skills:

General understanding and application of technical theories and concepts, and experimental and theoretical principles and practices, in the fields of aerodynamics and aircraft performance or aircraft propulsion systems.

Ability to be a self-starter, yet work under close mentorship, whether independently or as part of a team.

Ability to contribute to planning the technical approach for the solution of problems; demonstrated team leadership and organization skills are a plus.

Strong written and oral communications skills.

Must be willing to write flight test requests, plans, and procedures; support flight and ground testing; reduce and analyze flight test results; generate Aircraft Flight Manual and Pilot’s Operating Handbook/Manual performance data (tabular and/or graphical) or propulsion characteristics used to generate these data; and document all aspects of work performed.
General familiarity with the FAA compliance process and applicable advisory material pertaining to aircraft performance - CFR Part 23 and Part 25 and operational rules. Familiarity with JAR-OPS1 is desirable.

Ability to support the creation of FAA certification plans and approaches, and to present and defend technical results to the extent necessary to support findings of compliance.

Ability to understand FORTRAN and Visual Basic source code, and must be comfortable using MS Office applications particularly Excel, Access, and Word.

Candidate will be expected to participate in activities driving continuous improvement of technical tools, processes, and methods.

Desired Skills:

Skill in using and validating highly specialized computer and software systems.

Ability to write software programs using Visual Basic, and familiarity with OpenVMS (VAX) operating system.

Required Education:

Minimum of two (2) years of directly applicable experience is required with a minimum of a B.S. in Aerospace or Mechanical Engineering. Equivalent experience and degrees in a related Engineering discipline, Physical Science or Mathematics may be considered.

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Please send us a copy of your resume, along with a cover letter stating the position you are applying for.

Email: engineering@aviationrecruiting.net

Mail to:

Aviation Recruiting, Inc.

420 College Drive Suite 207

Middleburg, FL  32068

Phone: 904.264.0097

Fax: 904.264.0230