What are the responsibilities and job description for the Mechanical/Aerospace Engineer position at Precision?
Location: McMinnville Airport, Oregon (in-person)
Type: Summer 2026 internship, ~12 weeks with the option to convert to a full-time entry-level engineering role
Hours: Full-time (40 hours/week)
About Us
Precision owns, operates, and services fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft.
Our engineering team is focused on designing, testing, certifying, and manufacturing modifications including special mission equipment and upgrades in support of our aircraft and others around the world through the FAA STC process.
Why This Role Exists
Our engineering program is a small fast-moving team carrying a growing slate of active certification projects. This work generates a constant stream of detail-level engineering.
We’re looking for an early-career engineer to contribute to: design, drawings, documentation, conformity, test support, vendor coordination — learn how the connective tissue that keeps certification projects moving is made.
This is a high-ownership, high-exposure role. You will not be fetching coffee. You’ll touch nearly every phase of a project across multiple projects and work directly alongside people at all levels of the company.
Where You Can Contribute
• Create and revise detail drawings, installation drawings, and CAD models
• Contribute to certification documentation: compliance checklists, master drawing/data lists, and engineering orders
• Coordinate and track the inspections that confirm parts, assemblies, and test articles are built to the approved drawings
• Support structural and component testing — test-setup design, instrumentation, conformity, and data analysis
• Tooling and test articles
• Various engineering and program tasks that make projects successful
What We’re Looking For
• Completed or near completion of a B.S. in Mechanical, Aerospace, or a related engineering discipline – or equivalent experience
• Solid grasp of engineering— statics, mechanics of materials, structural analysis, systems thinking, circuits
• Proficiency in SolidWorks
• Detail-oriented and organized
• Self-directed and comfortable with ambiguity
• Clear, concise written communication and technical writing skills
• The desire to thrive in a small-team environment where you carry real responsibility
Nice To Have:
• A genuine interest in aviation
• The desire to thrive in a small-team environment where you carry real responsibility
• Heard of or are interested in learning acronyms: STC, FAA, ODA, CFR, FAR, AC, DER, DAR, SB, AD, PDR, CDR, ECO
The Path To Full-Time
This is structured as a summer internship with a destination. For the right person, we intend to extend a full-time, entry-level engineering offer at the end of the summer. We’ll be transparent about how that decision is made — it comes down to the quality of your work, your judgment, how you handle ownership, and whether the fit is right on both sides. The internship is the interview, for both of us.
How To Apply
Send a resume and a short note on why this role interests you to twilliams@flyprecision. If you have one, include a project you’re proud of, CAD samples, or a portfolio. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
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