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Aircraft Certification Engineer
Location: Newport News, VA
Job Type: Contract
Starting Pay: $60.00/hour; higher pay available based on experience
Position Overview
We are seeking an Aircraft Certification Engineer to support certification and airworthiness activities for aircraft modifications, repairs, and related aerospace programs. This role develops certification strategies, coordinates compliance activities, and prepares the technical documentation needed for regulatory and customer approval.
The engineer will work across engineering, production, quality, testing, and program management while coordinating with FAA representatives, DERs, ODA organizations, military authorities, customers, and suppliers.
Responsibilities
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline from an accredited college or university.
- Experience supporting aircraft certification, modifications, repairs, or aerospace product development.
- Working knowledge of FAA regulations, STC processes, FAA Form 337 major alteration processes, and Instructions for Continued Airworthiness (ICA).
- Experience creating or reviewing compliance matrices, engineering reports, test plans, conformity documentation, and certification artifacts.
- Ability to interpret engineering drawings, analyses, specifications, technical documentation, regulatory guidance, military airworthiness requirements, and industry standards.
- Strong analytical, organizational, written, verbal, and technical communication skills.
- Ability to coordinate effectively with Engineering, Production, Quality, Program Management, customers, suppliers, FAA representatives, DERs, ODA organizations, and military authorities.
- Ability to work in both office and aircraft hangar environments.
- U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Resident status.
Preferred Qualifications
Success in This Role
Success will be measured by the accuracy and completeness of certification documentation, timely completion of assigned deliverables, effective coordination of certification activities, successful regulatory reviews and compliance demonstrations, adherence to applicable requirements, and the ability to identify and resolve certification risks.
The role also contributes to improving certification processes, engineering standards, and lessons-learned practices.
