Lead Aircraft Electrical Load & Power Management Engineer

Aviation JobSearch Europa; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Volantes Technical Recruitment Ltd in the United Arab Emirates is seeking a Principal Electrical Load & Power Management Engineer to take ownership of the aircraft's electrical load analysis, power budget and power management strategy.

You will ensure essential and flight-critical systems remain powered during normal and failure conditions, and you will define essential electrical buses, load shedding strategies and provide reconfiguration logic for safe operation.

Qualifications

• 10+ years' experience in aircraft electrical systems engineering.
• At least 4 years' experience owning or maintaining aircraft electrical load analysis and power budgets.
• Strong experience with essential and emergency electrical architecture.
• Experience with load categorisation, load shedding and power management on certified or safety-critical aircraft.
• Experience defining power management and reconfiguration logic and supporting its safety assessment.
• Experience with electrical power quality analysis and testing.
• Proven ability to manage electrical power budgets across multiple engineering disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Own the aircraft electrical load analysis and power budget, including flight phases, duty cycles, growth allowances and margins.
• Manage and negotiate electrical power requirements across different aircraft systems.
• Define essential and emergency electrical buses, load categorisation and load-shedding strategies.
• Develop power management and automatic reconfiguration logic.
• Ensure flight-critical systems can continue operating following loss of a power source or electrical bus.
• Support aircraft safety assessments, including electrical failure modes and continued safe flight and landing analysis.
• Characterise electrical loads for mission and medical equipment.
• Provide electrical power and energy requirements to the wider aircraft integration team.
• Define and support power quality and electrical load testing, including load-bank and integration testing.

Skills

Aircraft electrical systems

Load analysis

Power budgeting

Power management

Safety-critical systems

Electrical architecture

Load shedding

Reconfiguration logic

Power quality analysis

Job description

Volantes Technical Recruitment Ltd in the United Arab Emirates is seeking a Principal Electrical Load & Power Management Engineer to take ownership of the aircraft's electrical load analysis, power budget and power management strategy.

You will ensure essential and flight-critical systems remain powered during normal and failure conditions, and you will define essential electrical buses, load shedding strategies and provide reconfiguration logic for safe operation.