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Job Summary:
Delta Air Lines is seeking a Principal Engineer within their TechOps Engineering organization. This role involves providing engineering support for fleet avionics, ensuring compliance with FAA regulations, and leading projects related to aircraft safety and reliability.
Responsibilities:
• Fleet Avionics Engineering - Communication, Navigation, and Surveillance (CNS)
• Provides aircraft engineering support to a variety of internal customers and outside suppliers to support daily operations and long-term reliability/cost effectiveness.
• Reviews, recommends, and implements manufacturer’s service bulletins and other correspondence to affected fleets.
• Ability to work independently without significant managerial input, while keeping management and Sr. management appropriately apprised of decisions and progress.
• Represents Delta Air Lines in OEM Technical Review Meetings (TRM) and industry events and conferences.
• Owns end-to-end problem recognition and solution implementation.
• Ability to serve as a team technical leader and willing to mentor junior engineers.
• Identify and develop solutions to maintain aircraft safety, reliability, and capability.
• Research, develop, and manage avionics equipment installation and retrofit projects. Includes on-site verification of project work instructions (Mock-Ups).
• Maintains compliance with applicable FAA regulations and Delta's Technical Operations Policy and Procedures (TOPP).
• Provides status for aircraft issues through various briefings and documentation.
• Supports maintaining the configuration and installation of Avionics software for Delta’s fleets.
• Supports shop, hangar, and line maintenance in troubleshooting and providing corrective actions, including repair or deviation documentation for assigned discipline.
• Maintains aircraft cybersecurity protocols, policy, and procedures.
Qualifications:
Required:
• B.S. in Engineering.
• Minimum of 8 years of previous Engineering experience with air lines, military, OEM, or MRO (commercial aircraft is preferred).
• Embraces diverse people, thinking and styles. Consistently makes safety and security, of self and others, the priority.
• Computer programming or software development skills with Matlab, C , Python are desirable.
• For internal candidates, must be performing satisfactorily in current position.
• Accepts personal responsibility for assignments and acts with a sense of urgency when initiating the necessary steps to complete them. Asks appropriate questions to ensure complete understanding of the task / objective and how solutions impact safety, schedules, and budgets.
• Recognizes that shifting priorities and changing objectives are normal in a business environment. Able to develop data based on similar work in past and/or provides feasible solutions to problems with low uncertainty.
• Demonstrates to team and leader that when tasks are assigned, timeline and quality commitments are met to the established goal. Acts with integrity and shows value for others.
• Project management skills and must be capable of working in a team environment to creatively solve technical problems.
• Have good interpersonal skills and the ability to effectively communicate with internal and external customers.
• Must have good technical writing skills to effectively generate detailed engineering documents using excellent problem-solving skills based on analytical methods.
• Possesses a high school diploma, GED, or high school equivalency.
• Demonstrates that privacy is a priority when handling personal data.
• Embraces a diverse set of people, thinking and styles.
• Consistently makes safety and security of self and others, the priority.
• Is at least 18 years of age and has authorization to work in the United States.
Preferred:
• Electrical, Aerospace, or Mechanical Engineering experience with an Avionics focus.
• Experience working STC solutions to resolve complex Avionics related problem.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly analyze a problem then identify and implement an innovative solution.
• Understanding of Aircraft Field Loadable Software support and implementation.
Company:
Delta Air Lines is a technical airline company that focuses on safety, innovation, reliability, and customer experience. Founded in 1928, the company is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, with a team of 10001 employees. The company is currently Public Company.
