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EnCore, a subsidiary of Boeing, designs, engineers, and manufactures innovative aircraft cabin interiors that help airlines enhance cabin efficiency, passenger comfort, and operational flexibility. Our company offers customizable, pre-certified interior components and lightweight seating solutions for both new aircraft and retrofit programs. Capabilities include full floor-to-floor interior solutions such as galleys, lavatories, closets, class dividers, and front-row monuments, including tourist-class seats designed to complement the Boeing 737 Sky Interior. With a strong focus on in-house design, engineering, and certification. EnCore helps reduce supply chain delays while delivering high-quality cabin components. We also support the aftermarket with pre-qualified, pre-certified modification kits for aircraft upgrades, such as 737 Space Bins, and provides customized solutions like digital cabin signage to further enhance the passenger experience.

As a Design Engineer on our team, you'll drive the development of aircraft interior products that balance innovative cabin design with rigorous performance, regulatory, and OEM requirements. You'll be involved from concept through delivery - designing, prototyping, testing, and iterating in close collaboration with our manufacturing teams, certification experts, and valued customers. The Design Engineer will create and help implement effective design solutions, from inception to completion, with consideration to schedule, budget, regulatory requirements, customer specifications, and integrator coordination. Includes units such as galleys, closets, class dividers, overhead bins, and front row monuments, and may include plumbing or chiller systems.

What sets us apart is our proximity to the production floor and our vertical integration. Our in-house prototyping capabilities let you move quickly from concept to physical mockup, test robust solutions, learn fast, and refine designs based on real-world feedback. You'll work in a collaborative environment that values continuous improvement, cross-functional teamwork, and practical problem solving - an ideal place to grow as an engineer who wants to make a tangible impact.

Note: The primary differences between job levels tie to skill level, complexity of the problem solving, and years of experience. Job assignments will be based on experience, job opening and budget availability, and the performance level of the incumbent.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

• Design products by defining and executing engineering concepts, including material and process selections.
• Coordinate with groups such as manufacturing, planning, purchasing, program management, certification, stress engineering, and electrical engineering to ensure program completion according to safety standards, regulations, and schedule.
• Apply engineering principles in the development of products to ensure unit meets specification, regulation, schedule, and budget requirements.
• Provide design support for current and new product design projects.
• Create 3D models of individual components and assemblies in CATIA. Create and or check 2D drawings of parts, components, sub-assemblies and assemblies as required in CATIA and AUTOCAD.
• Research and verify the design criteria and needs per customer as well as based upon regulatory and integrator or OEM requirements.
• Develop and optimize designs which adhere to performance targets including cost, volume, weight, and quality, as established by management and customer demand. Identify opportunities to optimize components and assemblies whenever possible.
• Ensure designs are optimized for manufacturing and assembly, including and not limited to soliciting observations from fabricators, operators, quality assurance, product support, supply chain specialists, or other disciplines as needed.
• Coordinate component integration aspects such as electronics and other BFE items.
• Create design proposals, including presentations, and objectively demonstrate the benefits and rationale behind proposed designs. This may include presentations to a variety to groups including other disciplines, and customers.
• Provide technical support to supply chain to address vendor inquiries.
• Monitor project tracking status to ensure projects are completed accurately and timely.
• Maintains a safe, secure and legal work environment; adhering to all Company policies and procedures.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
• Maintains and protects the confidentiality of the Company's information and products.
• Performs other duties and projects as assigned or requested.

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering or similar discipline.

Experience: Job assignments will be based on experience, job opening and budget availability, and the performance level of the incumbent.

• 3+ years of experience preferred, but not required

Skills:

• Ability to successfully handle multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Experience in understanding a variety of manufacturing processes including composites forming, CNC machining, stampings, sheet metal forming, and thermoforming.
• Understanding of material properties including metals, general plastics, and composites.
• Able to design complex integrated kinematic assemblies.
• Knowledge of related software including CATIA, AUTOCAD,and PLM.

Preferred Skills/Experience:

• CATIA programming (preferred BVA or CAT Scrip)
• Windchill or similar PLM Software Admin Experience
• CATIA Advance Knowledge

Other:

• May be asked to work extended or irregular hours as required.
• Must show proof of ability to work in the United States.
• Boeing EnCore is an "at-will" employer; employment is at the mutual consent of both the employee and the employer, and may be terminated at will for any reason, with or without cause, at any time during employment with the Company.
• As business conditions warrant a change in the operating necessities of the Company, all employees are expected to react productively, handle other essential tasks assigned now or in the future.
• Company does not provide relocation assistance.
• Company will not provide sponsorships for visa applications.

• Not applicable

• Level I: Direction with necessary guidance is provided in terms of tasks and objectives and measured based upon how well objectives have been met. Receives detailed instructions as needed.
• Level II: Direction is provided in terms of tasks and objectives. Work is reviewed upon completion on how well objectives have been met. Will autonomously work on routine assembly or designs with frequent status updates with supervisor. Will be provided with additional guidance on more complex or non-routine assemblies.
• Level III: Direction is provided in terms of tasks and objectives. Work is reviewed upon completion on how well objectives have been met. Will work autonomously on any assembly or design with only occasional status updates with supervisor.

• None for Entry and Intermediate levels. Senior level may oversee the work of others.

• Level I: Uses judgment to make innovative decisions that comply with instructions or pre-determined processes, methods, and/or practices.
• Level II: Uses judgment to plan, perform and make decisions on design and processes within the limits of established boundaries and requirements.
• Level III: Uses considerable judgment to plan and perform complex work. Decisions may involve innovation and ingenuity.

• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in English, both verbally and in writing.