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Aircraft Configuration Engineer

Sun Country Airlines 2021
Minneapolis, MN Full Time
POSTED ON 7/31/2026 CLOSED ON 8/7/2026

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About Sun Country Airlines

We’re not your average airline. We’re agile, resilient, and full of unique opportunity. Here, you can grow as part of an ambitious team that safely and collectively supports each other, our travelers, and our community. Together, we're making travel more attainable.

With more than 40 years of Minnesota roots, we're a unique hybrid low-cost carrier offering diverse services including scheduled flights to destinations across the U.S., Canada, Central America, and the Caribbean, as well as charter and cargo operations around the world. At Sun Country, you'll be part of a growing airline and an enthusiastic team focused on connecting our community with their favorite people and places.

Sun Country Airlines provides the resources and support our employees need to succeed. Besides working at a great and growing company, as an Aircraft Configuration Engineer you’ll enjoy these benefits and more:

  • Comprehensive benefit package including dental and vision
  • PPO and high deductible health plans
  • Health savings accounts (HSA and FSA)
  • Dependent Care
  • Starting day one free standby and discounted travel privileges for employees, family, & friends
  • 401(k) match
  • Paid Time Off
  • Paid holidays
  • Life and AD&D Insurance
  • Employee Assistance Program including counseling for employees and their family
  • Fitness incentive and Stop Smoking Support

Aircraft Configuration Engineer Overview:

The Aircraft Configuration Engineer has responsibility for aircraft configuration in the TRAX system and the Maintenance Technical Library. The Aircraft Configuration Engineer is also responsible for the development of technical documentation (manual revisions, Service Bulletins, Service Letters, IPCs, Engineering Task Cards, etc.) for incorporation, via Technical Publications, into the Sun Country Airlines’ (controlled) B737 Maintenance Technical Library. 

Essential Roles & Responsibilities: 

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

  • Author and design Maintenance Manual, Illustrated Parts Catalog, and other related technical documents
  • Maintain the technical content of Sun Country Airlines aircraft maintenance manuals, component maintenance manuals, Illustrated Parts Catalogs, Wire Diagram Manuals, Equipment Lists, and other related technical documentation
  • Establish a baseline configuration for each fleet type
  • Establish deviations from the baseline due to model differences and/or modifications
  • Monitor (stay current) with Sun Country Airlines’ aircraft modification status
  • Any other duties assigned by management

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
  • Proven engineering, computer, and technical knowledge experience
  • Excellent at articulating complex information to various audiences
  • Exceptional mathematical skills
  • Ability to apply principles of logic and scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems
  • Ability to get an MSP SIDA Badge

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Aircraft configuration management experience, particularly with Boeing 737 fleets 
  • Proficiency with TRAX or similar airline maintenance and configuration management systems 
  • High attention to detail and configuration accuracy 
  • Strong technical writing skills for developing and revising maintenance manuals, IPCs, service bulletins, task cards, and engineering authorizations 
  • Experience maintaining and controlling a Maintenance Technical Library 
  • Ability to collaborate effectively with maintenance, engineering, and technical publications teams 

Compensation:

$90,000-110,000.00. This is the base compensation for this role. 

Classification:

Full-time, Exempt 

Working Location:

This position is open in Minneapolis, MN.

Supervisory Responsibility:

None

Work environment:

This job primarily operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands or finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

AAP/EEO Statement:

It is the policy of Sun Country Airlines to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

Other Duties:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

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