Job Description

BOMBARDIER

Bombardier is a global leader, creating innovative and game-changing planes. Our products and services provide world-class transportation experiences that set new standards in passenger comfort, energy, efficiency, reliability and safety. We are a global organization focused on working together with a team spirit.

The candidate will be responsible for Avionics Systems Engineering across all Bombardier Aircrafts and new aircraft development programs and will report directly to the Manager, Avionics & Flight Deck Center of Excellence.

In your role, you will:

• Provide active participation towards Knowledge Domain (KD) vision within Production, and multi-stakeholder BA engineering eco-system.
• Capable of clarifying and reinforcing the needs of Challenger AC Liaison production compliance within the KD working group.
• Capable of identifying KD gaps and presenting gap closure concepts to fellows at quarterly KD meetings.
• Capable of providing constructive critiques as a peer reviewer to other technical presentations.
• Capable of providing inputs towards the continuous improvement of BA manuals, process, standards, and other binding industry and/or regulatory standards.
• Capable of preparing forensics guidance, process, and training material in order to enable rapid knowledge transfers, and team member growth within liaison community.
• Influence KD strategy, objectives, key SME participant for review with Fellows
• Capable of supporting special requests from KD fellows as required.
• Educate other specialists within the group and wider stakeholder communities on technical decision making and influence.
• Capable of mentoring and coaching peers via specifics tasking execution.
• Capable of mentoring and coaching peers for mid and long-term career development.
• Provide recommendations for promotions from entry level engineering/technical professional, through to senior engineering/technical specialist.
• Capable of tracking and scoring career development.
• Capable of producing promotional artifacts to senior management.
• Capable of developing a technical maturing course of action plan for professional skill-set gap closures.
• Capable in supporting KD/BU guidance policy formalization of career progress metrics.
• Recommend new cost-effective engineering solutions through appropriate Knowledge Domains and Programs.
• Capable of preparing technical business case artifacts, such as, technical charters, ECPs, cost comparisons, trade-off studies.
• Capable of engaging a multi-stakeholder team and maintaining team alignment.
• Capable of presenting \xe2\x80\x9cwinning solutions\xe2\x80\x9d effectively to senior management.
• Lead and coordinate the Problem Report (PR) investigation and resolution process for A/C level issues.
• Capable of interpreting production environment compliance artifacts, testing results and aircraft behavior in a predictive manner in order to mitigate production line \xe2\x80\x9chard stoppages\xe2\x80\x9d and major forensics delays affecting deliveries. i.e., proactive resolution versus reactive resolution behavior.
• Participate in internal audits and provide corrective actions and recommendations when deviations are present.
• Capable of providing compliant dispositions with minimal production delays. Agile execution.
• Witness selected testing, inspections, and/or audit to support advanced troubleshooting forensics.
• Capable of making prioritized decisions on the delegation of responsibilities to appropriate group peers or taking leadership initiative on technically complex and critical tasks.
• Lead and coordinate complex advanced troubleshooting forensics with multiple disciplines internally and externally from originating problem definition to problem resolution.
• Capable of concise and complete problem definition statements.
• Capable of exploiting the reuse of existing disposition/forensics artifacts. and/or
• Capable of creative adaptation of existing forensics infrastructure in order to produce necessary forensics artifacts.
• Capable of engaging multi-stakeholder specialists, to an agreed technical plan & conclusion.
• Participate in continued process improvement with respect to aircraft build.
• Capable of leveraging product/process improvement initiatives to the betterment of the liaison production environment.
• Work to resolve systemic in-service manufacturing issues affecting continued airworthiness and customer acceptance.
• Capable of supporting in-service engineering team.
• Capable of providing critical product awareness inputs to in-service engineering as extrapolated from production operations environment.
• Participate in Commodity Strategy reviews with Sourcing and Identify opportunities with Sourcing for program cost savings (component Shortages).
• Capable of supporting cost savings initiatives via technical \xe2\x80\x9cpro vs cons\xe2\x80\x9d analysis.
• Providing strategic inputs as derived from production operational environment to mitigate potential parts shortage incidents.
• Understand technical process oversight and adherence.
• Validate technical processes & knowledge standards meet best practice.
• Enforce adherence to BES practices and Knowledge Standards to promote product line integrity and consistency - May perform BES Champion role under special assignments.
• Support our Systems Integration team regarding certification, safety and producibility of projects.
• Share Industry and Regulatory Development with KD`s
• Be aware of opportunities to better aircraft build standards in response to technology and regulatory evolution.
• Prepare Method of Compliance (MoC) from internal and external benchmarking: -New or novel regulatory interpretations originating from Applicant design team, or Regulatory Authority specialist interactions -New and/or novel design features for regulatory interpretive guidance for MoC determination.
• Identification and Resolution of complex manufacturing issues, RNC\xe2\x80\x99s, Non-Disclosures.
• Ability to issue critical technical guidance to all BU stakeholders and disciplines.
• Ability to support Systems/Safety team in order to execute A/C Level Safety, Maintenance, Reliability, Flight Operations and Security processes at all product life cycle stages.
• Establish multi-disciplinary stakeholder alignment for Product Development, Triage, CARB and AOG activity when necessary.
• Directly support Management on PCR process, cycle times, optimized solutions with minimal guidance.
• Ability to develop MRB / Liaison lessons learned and implement required process/product improvements into BES best practices via Knowledge Domain working groups.

Qualifications

As our ideal candidate,

• You hold a Bachelor or master\xe2\x80\x99s degree in Engineering. May have a PHD related directly to a field of expertise.
• You have over 15 year or more of relevant experience in aircraft electrical & avionics systems.
• You have been directly involved in the definition and certification of at least one Avionics (primary and/or secondary) aircraft system.
• You have an excellent understanding of dispositioning non-conformities raised within a production/manufacturing environment.
• You possess an excellent understanding of all facets of avionics and electrical system definition, integration, and certification and have a good knowledge of aircraft systems and interfaces (e.g., Maintenance Data Computers, Aircraft Health Management Computers, EWIS, hydraulic).
• You have an excellent comprehension of design, compliance, airworthiness, production, testing and troubleshooting requirements documents.
• You have good knowledge of Part 25 certification process.
• Past experience supporting DAO/DER activities, and deliverable preparations related to RSI, SoC, and CoC documentation are a noteworthy asset.
• You have experience in performing aircraft level compliance impact assessments against complex & safety critical systems.
• You must be familiar with certification concepts and processes pertaining to DAL A software development, as well as their defining guidance materials, namely, ARP4754, DO178, Etc.
• You have experience with modeling and troubleshooting SW packages is a definite asset (MATLAB/Simulink/Stateflow, Etc.).
• You are an expert in multiple domains, and/or aircraft systems functional areas.
• You are highly recommended by peers, has an industry reputation.
• You may perform as a regulatory authority delegate in the field of expertise.
• You have strong knowledge and experience of systems sizing methodologies, and aerostructures interactions with systems functional performance.
• You have a solid understanding of civil aircraft certification rules, demonstrated experience in supporting certification findings of compliance.
• You have strong oral presentation, ability to communicate complex issues to a diverse stakeholder community, including technical writing skills.
• You have mastered the ability to influence and work with minimum formal supervision.
• You have sound engineering judgment and problem-solving skills, you are responsible and accountable, with a positive \xe2\x80\x9ccan do\xe2\x80\x9d attitude, and can positively interact, communicate, and coordinate activities with peers, management, collaborators.

Bombardier is an equal opportunity employer and encourages persons of any race, religion, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, age immigration status, disability or other applicable legally protected Characteristics to apply.

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