Associate Airplane Safety Engineer

Associate Airplane Safety Engineer

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Job Description

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The Boeing Airplane Safety Engineering team is seeking Airplane Safety Engineers to join our team in Everett, Washington.

Airplane Safety Engineering (ASE) is responsible for overseeing review of in-service fleet issues along with airplane level design safety activities for new Boeing commercial airplanes. Using risk assessments, sophisticated analysis methods, data analytics, in-service lessons learned, and a strong understanding of airplane level functional and logical architectures, ASE works with wider design organizations like Airplane Systems, Propulsion, Reliability and Maintainability, Interiors, and Structures to ensure product safety at the airplane level.

This position involves placement of successful candidates on the Development Airplane Safety Teams, supporting airplane programs in development, including 737MAX, 777-9, 777-FX, and Product Development as well as design safety support to sustaining airplane programs.

The successful candidate will be reliable, trustworthy, and accountable for completing assigned work. In addition, this person will be open-minded and comfortable about the potential for working in a dynamic teaming environment while being a champion for product safety initiatives, objectives and milestones. Lastly, the successful applicant will be willing to consider and investigate alternate proposals in support of a "never fail" spirit.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Providing safety design and analysis expertise to program stakeholders and leadership
• Validating and verifying airplane level safety requirements
• Developing certification strategies for systems and airplane level safety issues
• Executing airplane level threat analyses (bird strike, rotor burst, cargo fire, tire and wheel failures, etc.)
• Representing ASE in airplane level design trade studies, coordination of safety analyses, and functional integration assessments
• Ensuring adequate redundancy and physical separation of critical systems
• Leading airplane level safety analyses like Runway Excursion or Airplane Common Mode to ensure integration across multiple functional systems
• Utilizing Model Based System Engineering tools to analyze architectures/designs and develop safety deliverables

The successful candidate will have:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively with a diverse engineering team.
• Intrinsic aptitude for taking initiative, leading cross functional teams and complex projects.
• Ability and willingness to take ownership of work activities to ensure they are completed accurately, efficiently, and in a timely manner.

This position must meet Export Control compliance requirements, therefore a "U.S. Person" as defined by 22 C.F.R. § 120.15 is required. "U.S. Person" includes U.S. Citizen, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• Bachelor, Master or Doctorate of Science degree from an accredited course of study, in engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics or chemistry

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• Working knowledge of System Safety Analysis (SSAs), Functional Hazard Analyses (FHAs), Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEAs), Airplane Level Threats (Particular Risk Analyses) and Fault Tree Analysis (FTAs)
• Commercial airplane certification, safety requirements and procedures.
• Working knowledge of showing compliance to FAR Part 25.1309, and industry practices like ARP 4761 & 4754
• Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
• Working with FAA and with the Boeing Safety and Airworthiness (SAW) processes
• Commercial Airplane-Systems design or analysis (e.g. Flight Controls, Hydraulics, Avionics, Fuels, etc.) or Systems Integration
• Pilots license

Typical Education/Experience:

Education/experience typically acquired through advanced technical education from an accredited course of study in engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics or chemistry (e.g. Bachelor) and typically 2 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of technical education and experience (e.g. Master). In the USA, ABET accreditation is the preferred, although not required, accreditation standard

Relocation:

This position offers relocation based on candidate eligibility

Referral Bonus:

Referral to this job is eligible for bonus

Drug Free Workplace:

Boeing is a Drug Free Workplace where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies .

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Boeing is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.