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Senior Manager, Flight Control Systems - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Company/Organization: AgustaWestland Philadelphia Corporation

Position: Management

Job Type: Permanent

Posted: 4/12/2024 6:51:22 PM

Description:

Summary of Position:

  1. Perimeter of responsibility is all products where the FAA is the approving authority as well as the required support to Part 21 and Part 145 Engineering activities.
  2. Provide an overall geographic view of the engineering skills sustainment and organizational effectiveness
  3. Be the local extension of Flight Control Systems Technical Area within the Engineering Macro Area, having a local portfolio of basic competencies with a strong connection with macro areas for design, more detailed analysis or workload
  4. Act as part of the managerial chain of the engineering, contributing to plan and organize the activities to achieve overall US Engineering targets, jointly with Head of Flight Control Systems Technical Area, pursuing the share of common solutions and processes on clusters of programs and use of common approach to development and certification/qualification processes
  5. Work together with the Flight Control Systems Technical Area in order to guarantee coherent design solutions and methodologies, knowledge sharing and competencies development, contributing to the definition of architecture and requirements within the area of competence.
  6. Accountable for FAA certification activities pertaining Flight Control Systems, working closely with FAA representatives and DERrsquo;s
  7. Ensure multi program management to better leverage on use of available resources and competencies, reinforcing industrial performances oversight for the Flight Control System Technical Area AWPC perimeter.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Time

1.

Ensure integration, qualification and certification at system level upon delegation from

the Head of Flight Control Systems Technical Area

10

2.

Execute specific design activities and be responsible for customerrsquo; modifications

execution in agreement with Flight Control Systems Technical Area

10

3.

Accountable for technical certification activities for FCS and to show design compliance

of the technical solutions designed by the company to the FAA. Work closely

with the FAA and DER in supporting showing compliance

to applicable technical, programmatic and certification requirements.

30

4.

Jointly support, together with Head of Flight Control Systems Technical Area, the

activities definition for planning and execution towards an efficient demonstration of compliance of the design solutions across the product lines.

20

5.

Coordinate and be responsible for day-by-day management of

Technical Leaders and engineers belonging to the correspondent Technical Area.

15

6.

Together with Area/Discipline managers they do the performance review of TL

and engineers and is responsible to develop the competence plan and career

development for each member of the team. Together with Area/Discipline managers,

they are responsible to fill the gaps in the engineering organization

(double interviews hiring process)

5

7.

Is responsible to agree with their Macro Areas of reference the SOW for the activities

to be done by their team every year in order to define, working with Engineering

Governance, their budget based on activities

5

8.

Is responsible to create and update the EVMs plan for LH US FCS activities

5

TOTAL:

100

Qualifications for Position:

A. Education

BS degree in Automatic Control or Aerospace Engineering;

B. Experience

1. Ten years of experience participating in transport-category certification programs (Part25 or Part29).

2. Five+ years of technical experience and responsibility of teams involved in design, development,

test, analysis and qualification of Flight Control Systems.

3. Five years of experience performing Project Management duties.

4. Five years of personnel management experience.

C. Competencies Attributes

1.

Strong understanding of flight control system components, integration with avionics systems,

interaction with aircraft dynamics and aeromechanics to support compliance demonstration

against system and certification requirements.

Proven experience in environmental qualification practices, sw and complex hw development

i.a.w. civil qualification standards for DAL-A systems.

2.

Proven experience with FAA certification processes.

3.

Proven experience to develop plans, communicate them, and execute them efficiently across a diverse and complex organization. EVMS experience preferred.

4.

Strong communication and presentation skills, ability to effectively communicate to all

levels of the organization, ability to negotiate win-win solutions in the presence of conflict and

ambiguity, and ability to be a persuasive advocate to internal and external customers.

5.

High integrity and strong technical expertise to play as primary Flight Control Technology

interface with certification authorities.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Vet/Disability

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