Role: Principal Engineer

Relevant Experience: 10 to 15 Years

Location: Bangalore (WFO)

Notice Period: 15 days to 30 days

Experience Preferred: Must have experience on design, development and manufacturing of Ground support Equipment (GSE), Aerospace MRO Tool design and FAL (Final assembly line) assembly/installation fixtures.

Key requirements:

- Understand Maintenance Engineering requirements of Aircraft for the design, development and manufacturing of Ground support Equipment and Aerospace MRO tools.

- Ability to build concept & functional design based on technical specifications and functional maintenance requirements from the customer.

- Manage complete design and development (CAD-3D Model) of GSE & Aerospace MRO tool parts/assemblies and tool storage boxes using CATIA V5 considering material selection, purchase parts selection, design for manufacturing and assembly, design to cost, ergonomics, operational safety adherence to CE norms and reliability criteria. Thereby propose new design modifications to existing tools.

- Manage complete design and development of FAL (Final assembly line) assembly/installation fixtures for installation of various Mechanical, Pneumatic and Electrical systems of Aircraft at Final Aircraft assembly considering EASA guidelines.

- Ensure quality deliverables with respect to effective input study, design reviews with proper risk assessment, adherence to Aircraft quality standards AS 9100 and EN 9110.

- Independently create GSE & Aerospace MRO tool parts/assembly drawings and tool storage box drawings using CATIA V5 by applying ISO tolerance system, CE regulations and customer instructions.

- Ability to create complementary documentation, like General Instruction manuals for GSE/Aerospace MRO tools, Bill of Materials, technical files and analyzation of operational Risks associated with the tool/GSE.

- Ability to validate the GSE & Aerospace MRO tool with respect to DMU check and calculations during design phase and to validate with respect to prototyping, periodic load tests, leak tests, fatigue tests, etc. during physical testing followed by respective design iteration and effective operation of the tool at the MRO site.

- Serve as an expert in analysing the GSE & Aerospace MRO tool design problems and provide effective solutions for the same.

- Handle change management by clearly understanding design changes/modifications and the factors driving the change along with prioritization of the tasks.

- As a focal point, principal engineer needs to ensure effective communication and collaboration with cross-functional team, by understanding their requirements and implementing the same in day-to-day work.

- Should possess necessary team leading skills in handling team of 2 to 3 members in terms of guiding and mentoring them.

- Should possess project management skills to run tool packages by adapting AGILE principles.

Skills preferred:

- Leadership

- Effective communication

- Creativity

- Problem solving

- Value engineering

- Project management

- Strong knowledge on materials