Job Description

Northwest Aerospace Technologies (“NAT”), a Safran Company, is the only EASA DOA Certified aircraft interior reconfiguration group in the United States. Focusing on commercial and military aircrafts, NAT provides first class services in design, engineering, quality, certification, and manufacturing for a variety of Blue Chip customers.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:
The Level 3 Electrical Engineer has the following scope of work:
- Support the design, development and substantiation of the installation of electrical components and systems into retrofit aircraft applications.
- Communicating with the customers and fellow team members. Presenting technical content to a wide audience and provide guidance and input to other team members as well as team members from other disciplines.
- Develop proposals to install various electrical components and systems within an aircraft.
- Break down a SOW into smaller work packages and allocate work packages to other engineers.
- Firm understanding of airworthiness requirements regarding the installation of electrical systems, components and wiring within an aircraft.
- Develop engineering statement of work in preliminary stages of product/project development.
- Ensure that NAT's drawings and documents meet the standards established by the NAT quality system, customer requirements and the applicable certification authority.
- Grow in experience by willing to take on tasks in multiple disciplines of the aerospace industry. This would include wire diagrams, wire kits, wire installations and system design.
- Develop engineering packages from beginning concept to production utilizing engineering tools and other engineering personnel.
- Develop peer review check packages for generated engineering drawings.
- Ensure the design content conforms to the company quality system procedures as documented, the customer statement of work, along with applicable certification requirements.
- Work with ODA UM's and EASA CVE's to ensure designs are compliant to airworthiness requirements.

The Electrical Design Engineer 3 will also have the responsibility to perform the following disciplines:

System Design Engineering Discipline:
- Research existing aircraft data using OEM and vendor aircraft portals/drawings.
- Reconfigure existing aircraft systems to interface with newly added systems / components.
- Ensure existing systems continue to function as intended.
- Create Wiring Diagrams using AutoCAD
- Create System Schematics using AutoCAD
- Define electrical aircraft interface locations and connections for interior monuments being installed.
- Effectively utilize the Boeing standard wiring practices manual (SWPM) or Airbus electrical standard practices manual (ESPM).
- Use standard electrical principals to ensure newly installed or modified systems.
- Create a Wire Kit (cable assembly) with the understanding of parts, material specs and processes required for the creation of kit.

Complementary Description

Continued discipline responsibilities from above...

Installation Engineering Discipline:

- Research existing aircraft data using OEM and vendor aircraft portals/drawings.
- Create wire routing and installation drawings using AutoCAD.
- Generate clamping arrangements and identify when existing routing can be reutilized.
- Ability to define effectivity splits.
- Effectively utilize the Boeing standard wiring practices manual (SWPM) or Airbus electrical standard practices manual (ESPM).
- Define critical areas of EWIS wire routing and have a working knowledge of wire separation requirements.
- Research vendor parts data, processes and specifications (MIL, NAS, BAC, ABS, MS, NSA, BMS…).
- Ability to create Parts Lists and Collector Drawings.
- Develop Engineering Orders (EO) to assist technicians on the proper installation order.

Substantiation Engineering Discipline:
- Prepare the following substantiation documents:
- Aircraft Electrical Load Analysis,
- EMI Ground and Flight Test Plans,
- Transverse Vertical Separation Analysis,
- EWIS Reports,
- Prepare Fuel Separation Analysis
- Disturbed Systems Analysis, Functional Test Plans
- System Safety Assessments
- Fault Hazard Assessments

Safran Cabin headquarters are in Huntington Beach, California, with a global presence of over 11,000 employees at 36 sites. Site locations are in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Canada, Germany, France, Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Tunisia and Thailand.

Job Requirements

At Safran Cabin, diversity & inclusion is a source of richness that adds quality of life, performance, and innovation. We welcome diverse contributions and provide equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/gender expression, marital status, pregnancy, age, national origin, ancestry, disability/medical condition, military or veteran status, citizenship status, genetic characteristics or information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, and local laws.

We seek service-oriented team players with strong interpersonal skills and a positive attitude, adaptable to our innovative and evolving environment.

Across all team members, we are looking for the following attributes:
• Team oriented
• Process focused
• Open & honest communication
• Quality minded
• Ability to persevere and honor commitments
• Recognizes success
• Executes with urgency
• Creates solutions
• Customer focused in everything we do


Knowledge/Experience

Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering, or equivalent Technical Degree and at least ten (10) years of relevant industry experience or equivalent combination of education and experience
Proficient in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, Microsoft PowerPoint, and AutoCAD

Skills/Abilities:
- Drawing management
- Troubleshooting/problem solving
- Ability to work independently or within a team
- Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal
- Understanding of customer's expectations
- Ability to prioritize, multi-task effectively, and work under pressure
- Superior attention to detail
- Able to mentor less experienced engineering personnel in fields of expertise.
- Coordination with customers, suppliers, and interdepartmental personnel is required

This description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by an employee within this position. The actual duties, responsibilities and qualifications may vary based on assignment or group.

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