Principal Reliability and Maintainability Engineer

Principal Reliability and Maintainability Engineer

Company:

The Boeing Company

The Boeing Company has an exciting opportunity for Principal Reliability and Maintainability Engineers (Level 5) to join our Reliability & Maintainability (R&M) Engineering organization located in Everett, WA.

The selected candidate will help design, certify & support commercial airplanes by applying state-of-art reliability and maintainability engineering design, modeling and analysis principles. R&M Engineering is a key functional discipline that supports the airplane development for optimal performance, lifecycle economics & compliance to safety and airworthiness requirements.

Position Responsibilities:                                                     

• Use modeling, simulation and data analytics methodologies & tools including statistical and probabilistic analyses.

• Serve as a technical specialist supporting other functional design groups during all stages of the airplane product development and support lifecycle.

• Responsible for aiding in determining program technical performance measures (TPMs) such as schedule reliability, airplane operational availability & maintenance cost.

Provide support in the following areas:

• Design for Reliability & Safety (airplane and system design reliability requirements validation & verification, reliability requirements allocation to suppliers, failure modes, rates, effects, propagation and detection analysis, architecture & operational provisions, safety & certification analysis, certification support, reliability & durability testing).

• Design for Maintainability (airplane and system design maintainability requirements validation & verification, task time analysis, maintainability evaluation of design using digital maintainability tools including virtual and augmented reality tools), requirements for and assessment of airplane technical performance measures (TPMs) such as schedule reliability, airplane operational availability & maintenance costs, TPM guarantee analysis.

• Interaction with airplane system suppliers, business partners, airline customers, airplane development program leaders, and functional management is typical, as is a high level of communication between the rest of the R&M Engineering internal organization, program teams, and functional design areas.

• Team involvement and individual effort, problem solving, and managing multiple actions and assignments will be regular duties for an R&M engineer.

This position is expected to be 100% onsite. The selected candidate will be required to work onsite at one of the listed location options (Everett, WA).

Basic Qualifications (Required Skill/Experience):

• Bachelor of Science degree from an ABET (or similar) accredited course of study in an engineering discipline, computer science, mathematics, physics or chemistry.

• 14+ years of related work experience in an engineering field.

• 8+ years of Reliability Engineering experience in commercial aviation.

• Experience in airplane systems design or engineering analysis (e.g. Propulsion, Electrical Power, Mechanical, Network, Fuels, Pneumatic, Interiors, Flight Controls, Hydraulics, Avionics, Fuels, etc.).

• Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) experience in commercial airplane certification.

• Proficient in FTA software tools such as CAFTA, ReliaSoft or  FaultTree+.

• Experience in FTA integration for commercial airplanes.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience utilizing Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tools.

• Experience with project planning and execution.

• Technical leadership 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.

Union Representation:

This is a union-represented position.

Pay and Benefits:

At Boeing, we strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract, engage and retain the top talent. Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.

The Boeing Company also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance pr