Senior Flight Deck Crew Operations Engineer

Senior Flight Deck Crew Operations Engineer

Company:

The Boeing Company

Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) is looking for a Senior Flight Deck Crew Operations Engineer (Level 4) at our Everett, Washington site.

Come join the team that designs, tests, and certifies industry-leading, state-of-the-art Flight Decks for Boeing Commercial Airplanes! At any given moment, tens of thousands of Flight Crews around the world are operating and working in the Flight Decks of Boeing-designed airplanes. We are tasked with ensuring that today's designs receive world class support and new and future designs are loved by pilots, advance aviation safety, and improve operational efficiency. The flight decks that you design will be used for decades to come and connect the entire globe.

In Flight Deck, you will define the look and feel of the interface for the pilots.  You will be responsible for that design from conception to the end of its service life. Come join a team of experts in flight operations, with unique knowledge of how flight crews operate our airplanes and what their needs, tasks, and constraints are.  In this role, you will work closely with pilots from all over the world to deliver industry leading flight decks.

A flight deck engineer can have a focus area which may include: airplane system functions (hydraulics, electrical, flight controls, etc.) display formats, menus and control interfaces; display hardware; flight management system; instrument panel layouts, crew alerting, electronic flight bag; crew personal electronic devices, failure effects and analysis; navigation; communication equipment; crew procedures, crew training, human factors/cognition; and ergonomic analysis. Engineers in this position will work alongside other engineers in solving problems and will receive tasking from a lead engineer, but may also serve as a leader of a small team of engineers providing technical and work statement guidance.

The successful Flight Deck team member will have a passion for aviation and enjoys working with a team of pilots, engineers, and customers who share the same passion.

Primary responsibilities:

• Design, test, and certify the look, feel, and operational behavior of the flight deck, from the early conceptual phase, to supporting airplanes after entry into service.
• Establish design requirements for changes and enhancements to the flight crew interface on existing or new commercial airplane models, testing, and implementing those enhancements.
• Support product development efforts to identify technologies to increase aviation safety and add value to our products or services.
• Use an interdisciplinary, collaborative approach to plan, develop, verify, and validate requirements.
• Participate or lead design teams, as well as collaborate with avionics, other engineering groups, customer airline personnel, industry, regulators, and suppliers.
• Work closely with a wide variety of pilot’s disciplines including flight test, technical and procedural, training, customer airline, and regulator pilots.
• Prototype cockpit layouts using commercial and company-unique computing tools, and validate design requirements and flight deck design philosophies during test programs using analysis, flight deck simulators, and flight test airplanes.
• Ensure practical application of Boeing Flight Deck and human factors design principles, commonality and integration with other mission objectives.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills and Experience):

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics or Chemistry
• 1+ years of experience in the aerospace engineering industry.
• Some travel may be required, either domestic or international. Frequent travel to other local Puget Sound sites is required.

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills and Experience):

• Engineering degree in Aerospace, Mechanical, or Computer Engineering and 9+ years experience related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience. 
• Pilots license.
• Flight test experience.
• Human Factors experience.
• Flight operations experience.

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.

Pay & Benefits:

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