IPT Head - Flight Sciences

Title: Flight Sciences - IPT Head

Location : Montreal , Canada (onsite)

Job type: Long-term Contract

Job Description & Skill Requirement:

Key Responsibilities

1. IPT & Program Leadership

• Lead the Flight Sciences IPT, ensuring alignment with overall aircraft development program objectives.

• Own technical delivery, schedule, cost, and quality for aerodynamics and loads domain.

• Coordinate across Structures, Flight Controls, Propulsion, and Avionics teams.

• Act as the primary interface with customers and internal stakeholders.

2. Aerodynamic Design & Analysis

• Lead aerodynamic design and optimization of aircraft components including wings, fuselage, empennage, and nacelles.

• Oversee CFD simulations, wind tunnel data correlation, drag reduction, and performance improvement initiatives.

• Conduct performance analysis (range, climb, cruise efficiency) and high-lift systems assessment for take-off and landing performance.

3. Aero-Loads Development

• Define and generate aero-loads across the flight envelope, including gust loads, maneuver loads, and ground-air loads interactions.

• Ensure proper integration with structural design and sizing teams.

• Develop certification load cases, loads envelopes, and critical conditions.

4. Flight Dynamics & Dynamic Behavior

• Lead flight dynamics modeling and simulation, including stability and control analysis and handling qualities evaluation.

• Evaluate aircraft response to disturbances, gusts, turbulence, and dynamic behavior.

• Collaborate with Flight Control teams on control law development and aircraft response tuning.

5. Integration & Validation

• Ensure integration of aerodynamics, loads, and dynamic behavior with overall aircraft design.

• Support wind tunnel testing, ground testing, validation, and flight test campaigns.

• Validate simulation models against test data.

6. Certification & Compliance

• Ensure compliance with FAA, EASA, and DGCA certification requirements (CS/FAR 23/25/27 as applicable).

• Support certification deliverables including loads reports, stability and control reports, flight test plans, and analysis reports.

• Participate in PDR, CDR, and certification audits.

7. Risk & Performance Management

• Identify and mitigate aerodynamic risks, loads exceedance risks, and stability and handling concerns.

• Ensure performance targets for fuel efficiency, payload-range capability, and flight envelope compliance are achieved.

8. Stakeholder & Customer Management

• Act as technical focal point for the flight sciences domain.

• Present aerodynamic performance, loads data, and dynamic analysis results.

• Support proposal development, RFQs, effort estimation, and planning.

Required Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor's / Master's in: Aerospace Engineering /Electronics & Communication/ Avionics / Electrical Engineering

Experience

• 12-18+ years in the aerospace domain.

• Strong experience in aerodynamics, aero-loads, and flight dynamics.

• Experience in aircraft NPD programs is mandatory.

• Proven experience leading IPTs or cross-functional teams.

Technical Skills

• Aerodynamics using CFD tools such as ANSYS Fluent and STAR-CCM+.

• Aero-loads generation tools and methodologies.

• Flight dynamics, stability and control analysis, and handling qualities.

Tools & Methods

• MATLAB/Simulink.

• Flight simulation tools.

• Wind tunnel data analysis.

• MBSE tools such as Cameo and Rhapsody (preferred).

Standards & Knowledge

• CS/FAR 23/25 certification standards.

• Understanding of aeroelasticity, flutter analysis, and gust response modeling.

Leadership & Soft Skills

• Strong technical leadership and decision-making capability.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Experience working in onsite-offshore delivery models.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.