Design/Project Engineer

The Design/Project Engineer plays an active role in specifying, designing, and integrating vehicle architecture and equipment functions across various platforms, including H125, H130, H135, H145, and H160. This role involves regularly designing new components and installations made from both metallic and composite materials, and completing detailed design definitions of new products using CATIA V5. The engineer also takes the lead on projects, supporting new opportunities and developments, as well as improving or maintaining existing aeronautical products.

Main Responsibilities

Project Leadership

• Creating estimates, schedules, and statements of work for collaborative development projects and aircraft completions.
• Ongoing follow-up and monitoring to ensure timely, quality, and cost-effective objectives are met.
• Collaborate and coordinate with all company stakeholders.
• Present and explain modifications and aircraft configurations during design reviews and other necessary presentations to various customers.
• Oversee subcontracting of engineering activities with third-party vendors.

Vehicle System Architecture and Definition

• Develop system architecture and functional solutions based on engineering operation requirements outlined during the offer phases to ensure compliance with customer needs, airworthiness standards, general engineering norms, and company guidelines.
• Develop, integrate, and validate the proposed solutions.
• Develop and assess technical documents required to validate the system architecture.
• Establish and approve verification methods (such as analysis, tests, etc.), develop verification programs covering aspects like Functional Hazard Analysis, EMI/EMC, general environment, vibrations, and thermal analysis, and provide the verification results to the Airworthiness team.
• Conduct technical evaluations of third-party Supplemental Type Certificates (STCs).
• Assess TC change impact on legacy product (TC and STC) and open projects

Structural Integration Activities

• Create, develop, and evaluate technical documents and engineering structural drawings necessary for integrating equipment and their related interfaces.
• Develop layouts for aircraft modifications and configurations for various completion and Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) projects.
• Create drafts and 3D models for installations, assemblies, and parts, incorporating both sheet metal and composite designs.
• Review wiring diagrams, wire routing, and aircraft structure interfaces, taking into account EMI/EMC requirements, antenna placement and separation needs, and maintainability.
• Inspect and validate airframe design integrations and modifications for structural components, including doors, windows, frames, and external load items such as cameras, lighting, hoists, cargo hooks, and floats.
• Evaluate installation instructions and guidelines for continued airworthiness.
• Offer liaison support to various internal and external customers as needed to aid aircraft integration and conformity efforts, including collaboration with suppliers, planning teams, industry partners, and quality assurance.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering or a related field.
• A Master’s degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering is considered a plus.
• A Professional Engineer’s License (or eligibility to obtain one) is considered advantageous.

Experience

• Five years of experience in vehicle architecture or structural design.
• Two years of experience in project engineering and project coordination.
• Experience working with specialists in a manufacturing environment.

Knowledge, Skills, Demonstrated Capabilities

• Ensure tasks necessary to develop aeronautical products are completed accurately, clearly, and on time.
• Exhibit strong initiative and motivation, working independently and collaboratively within a team to drive development.
• Learn, understand, and adhere to department and company procedures.
• Apply long-term strategic objectives and goals to daily activities and decision-making, keeping the big picture in mind.
• Possess knowledge of vehicle architecture and system integration.
• Understand electrical wiring diagrams.
• Familiarity with structural aeronautical design constraints.
• Knowledgeable about aeronautical materials (metallic, composite, etc.), including their characteristics, mechanical properties, manufacturing processes, and pros and cons for design use.
• Understand helicopter performance and the loads applied to aircraft in general.
• Familiar with verification methods for general engineering aspects (EMI, EMC, vibrations, thermal analysis, etc.).
• Knowledgeable about helicopter fuselage (doors, canopy, cowling, etc.) and airframe design, as well as inboard and outboard systems (hoists, seats, consoles, etc.).
• Understanding of structural load and stress analysis is considered an asset.