Senior Repair Engineer [Aerospace]

We have an immediate opening for a Senior Repair Engineer, at our aerospace location in Chula Vista, CA supporting aftermarket activities. You will design and approve repair and allowable damage limits for the Structural Repair Manual (SRM) on Aerospace commercial nacelle components. You will work independently, providing technical guidance to junior engineers, making recommendations to management, and working on standardization to improve processing times.

Roles & responsibilities include:

• Able to make engineering judgments and develop repair instructions for solutions on various nacelle components for different nacelle programs.
• Apply technical expertise to support repair design development on metallic and composite structures.
• Work with production engineering to understand design changes and evaluate impact to structure maintainability, repairability, and maintenance manuals (CMM, SRM, AMM).
• Work with engine manufacturers and airframers to support complex technical issues requiring creativity and ingenuity in expanding manual repairs and allowable damage limits.
• Works in a fast-paced environment with time-constraints, handling multiple repair tasks.
• Serves as the key point of contact for internal and external customers on complex technical issues.
• Will communicate and make presentations to internal and external customers and be driven to achieve customer satisfaction.
• Able to prepare repair packages to support SRM/CMM repair development for submission to the Type Certificate holder.

The ideal candidate will have the following combination of education and experience:

• Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of prior relevant experience OR an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 3 years’ experience OR In absence of a degree, 9 years of relevant experience is required.
• Experience with repair of aircraft metallic and/or composite structures.
• Knowledge and understanding of MRO and regulatory requirements in the commercial aircraft industry.
• Understanding of Maintenance Manuals (SRM/ASR/CMM) with technical writing skills.
• Must have customer-facing experience.
• High intermediate skills with MS Office Suite: Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• Experience in repair development of aircraft metallic and/or composite nacelle and exhaust structures.
• Familiarity with specialty manufacturing processes for aerospace components.
• Knowledge in Automation (Excel VBA & Visual Basic applications).
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. for any employer.

Preferred experience includes:

• CATIA V5 and FiberSim skills.
• Detailed understanding of nacelle systems

Physical Requirements & Work Environment:

• Mostly Office Environments, Occasional Shop Floor involvement.
• Substantial amounts of telephone and computer work.
• Heavily Regulated Industries with strict adherence to procedures.
• Flexibility to meet business deadlines by staying late or arriving early.
• Typical 8-hour days plus lunch / 40 hour weeks / core (required) hours are 9AM to 4PM
• Ability to use personal transportation to visit customer locations.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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