Full-Time
Fly-By-Wire and Secondary Flight Control Specialist
Altitude Aerospace
No salary listed
Dorval, QC, Canada
Hybrid
Two to three days on-site per week required; occasional travel to supplier, regulatory, assembly, completion, and flight-test facilities.
Bachelor's
Category
 Aerospace Engineering (1) |
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Required Skills
Microsoft Office
MATLAB
Simulink
Requirements
- A bachelor's degree in mechanical or aerospace engineering and a minimum of 7 years of experience in an aerospace-related field are required.
- Direct involvement in the definition and certification of at least one fly-by-wire and/or secondary flight-control system is required.
- Good understanding of system definition, integration, and certification, including aircraft systems and interfaces such as electrical, hydraulic, avionics, and auto-flight systems, is required.
- Knowledge of the Part 25 certification process is required.
- Excellent oral presentation skills in English and French are required.
- Technical writing skills in English are required.
- The ability to work with limited supervision, remain organized, work under pressure, and communicate effectively with customers and colleagues is required.
- Initiative, innovation, responsibility, integrity, adaptability, sound engineering judgment, and a results-oriented approach are required.
Responsibilities
- Integrate the fly-by-wire and secondary flight-control system on the aircraft.
- Support the development of concepts, design approaches, and design philosophies with the flight-control-system supplier.
- Perform and review analyses to evaluate concept feasibility.
- Develop, validate, and verify technical requirements for the flight-control system.
- Review and prepare technical requirements.
- Review and prepare test procedures.
- Execute test-rig and/or aircraft testing.
- Review and prepare test reports supporting certification activities.
- Resolve problems arising from in-service aircraft through troubleshooting, root-cause determination, and definition and execution of corrective actions.
- Ensure compliance with the ARP4754 development process.
- Support trade-off studies and life-cycle cost analyses for future programs.
- Ensure that the design process and resulting equipment implementation comply with customer requirements and standards.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in modeling and dynamic simulation of electrical and hydraulic flight-control actuators.
- Working knowledge of the MATLAB, Simulink, and Stateflow simulation environment.
- Familiarity with simulation environments such as ADAMS.
- Familiarity with design tools such as CATIA.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office and requirements-management tools.
- Technical writing skills in French.