FBW and Secondary Flight Control System – Professional Senior - Engineering

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The FBW & Secondary Flight Control Engineering team and the business are looking for a Senior Professional, Engineering who has product and process to ensure a sustaining program (Challenger, Global Express, Global 8000) while preparing it for the challenges and demands of the future (Ecojet).

What are your contributions to the team?

• Perform the integration of the FBW & Secondary Flight Controls system on the aircraft.
• Support the development of concepts, design approach and philosophy with the Flight Control system supplier.
• Perform/Review analysis to evaluate concepts feasibility.
• Develop, validate and verify technical requirements of the Flight Control System.
  • • Review/Prepare technical requirements
    • Review/Prepare test procedures
    • Execute test rig and/or aircraft testing
    • Review/Prepare test reports in support of certification activities
• Resolve problems arising from in-service aircraft.
  • • Troubleshooting, root cause determination, corrective action definition and execution
• Ensure compliance to the ARP4754 development process.
• Support trade off studies and life cycle cost analysis for future programs.
• Ensure the design process and the resulting equipment implementation is in line with Bombardier's requirements and standards.

Occasional trips to the Suppliers facilities and Regulatory Authorities, as well as on-site support to the Final Assembly Line (Toronto & Montreal), Completion Centers (Montreal), Flight Test Center (Wichita).

How to thrive in this role?

• You hold a bachelor’s degree in mechanical or aerospace engineering and have a minimum of 7 years’ experience in aerospace related field.
• You have been directly involved in the definition and certification of at least one FBW and/or Secondary Flight Control system.
• You possess a good understanding of all facets of system definition, integration, and certification and have a knowledge of aircraft systems and interfaces (e.g., electrical, hydraulic, avionics, auto-flight).
• You have knowledge of Part 25 certification process.
• Experience in modeling and dynamic simulation of flight controls electrical and hydraulic actuators is an asset.
• You have a working knowledge of MATLAB/Simulink/Stateflow simulation environment.
• Some familiarity with other simulation environments such as ADAMS, or design tools such as CATIA would be an asset.
• Good knowledge of MS Office and Requirements Management tools is an asset.
• Soft skills:
  • • Excellent oral presentation in English and French.
    • Technical writing skills in English & French are required
    • You have the ability to work with limited supervision, be organized, a team player, and a self-motivated person, be Customer focused, and be able to work under pressure.
    • You must also show initiative, innovation, a strong sense of responsibility and integrity, adaptability, have good interpersonal communication skills, have a good engineering judgement, and drive for results.