Senior Certification Engineer

Role Summary

This role provides the independent evaluation and oversight on avionics/products certification for the C919, C929 as well as other projects, and be responsible for certification and development aspects of avionics systems/products across the teams, provide the technical review and guidance to ensure engineering compliance to applicable CAAC/FAA/EASA regulations, be involved in long-term planning, and contribute to the overall company business strategy and capability building on certification and airworthiness areas.

Primary Responsibilities

• Participate as the presenter or reviewer in both AVIAGE SYSTEMS and customer milestone reviews and certification authority engagement and audit meetings
• Interpret requirements of certification/airworthiness regulatory and industry standards and ensure internal engineering development procedures in these areas are followed.
• Provide independent evaluation/assessment for the project to ensure EASA/CAAC/FAA regulations, regulatory standards, customer requirements, and internal design assurance requirements are met.
• Drive certification deliverables development for the given projects, such as: Certification Plans, Compliance Checklist and Summary, Compliance Report, Airworthiness Limitations, White Papers, etc.
• Coordinate certification activities in the fields of systems/products development, qualification and airworthiness, among development teams, suppliers, customer and EASA/CAAC/FAA
• Drive/contributes to the Design Practice amendments in response to certification lessons learned.
• Develop and lead action plans to anticipate and respond to complex problems which need cross team coordination
• Mentor and influence others to produce approaches to meet the technical and program requirements
• Work in collaboration with different time-zone engineering team to achieve the final assigned goal
• Develop the knowledge and competency of fellow engineers within assigned technical and program management areas
• Manage the execution of the tasks to meet the project schedule, cost, scope as well as ensure qualities.
• Identify program risk and develop corrective actions for the causes that may impact program milestones

Qualifications Required

• Bachelor degree from an accredited university or college
• Minimum of 8 years of experience of aircraft certification or avionics systems/products development and certification, especially EASA experience
• Proven ability to lead certification projects, ability to guide and influence others.
• Experience with civil aviation development standards such as ARP 4754B, DO-297 and ARP 4761A.
• Experience in security airworthiness process and requirement of DO-326A/B and DO-356A
• Experiences with ARINC 653, ARINC 664, ARINC 429, ARINC825 and related aviation standards
• Be able to communicate with individuals at all levels of the organization and with external customer, suppliers and cert authorities.
• French and English language skills

Qualifications Desired

• Master’s degree from an accredited university
• Minimum of 10 years’ experience developing aircraft or avionics products
• Experience with post Type Certification project including customer support and / or product sustaining
• Familiar with the EASA Security Airworthiness Regulation (Part 21.A.239A, Part-IS & CS.25.1319)
• Ability to achieve results in a matrix environment
• Strong executive presence and highest level of accountability and integrity
• Project scheduling experience and budget estimation experience