Validation & Airworthiness Lead, High-Performance Batteries

BOLD; Montmeló; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Life Insurance

Private health insurance

Canteen

Flexible schedule

Remote days

Job summary

Head of Validation at BOLD leads the coordination of Validation and Verification activities for high-performance battery systems across demanding industries. You will interact with the Chief of Certification and Safety, design and engineering teams, and your testing group to ensure safety and compliance.

You will implement safety requirements, manage clearance strategies, and liaise with authorities, while ensuring alignment with DOA processes and specification baselines.

Qualifications

• 10 years of expertise in testing activities of complex aircraft systems or subsystems, including the definition of clearance strategy and safety procedures.
• Thorough knowledge of CS23, DO-311A, DO-160G, DO-178, DO-245 amongst others.
• Experience in FAA and EASA in the intersection between battery powered flight and certification efforts for new technology and platforms.
• Experience in dealing with authorities for aircraft airworthiness for experimental activities.
• Extensive knowledge of instrumentation and of complex system assembly.
• Able of challenging and managing the definition of clearance strategies to accelerate validation activities, putting safety first.
• Excellent professional network within the aeronautics industry, including academics, industrial players, consultants, suppliers and regulators, etc.

Responsibilities

• Implement the safety requirements and procedures on all the test activities
• Handling the clearance strategy for all the testing activities
• Liaising with internal and external stakeholders, including authorities
• Ensure proper processes implementation according to Design Handbook (DOA)
• Manage appropriate baselining of requirements to ensure coherence through all level of specification
• Manage and guarantee accurate delivery of all documents part of the specification tree
• Define the strategy for validation of requirements

Skills

Testing complex systems

Safety procedures

Clearance strategy

Stakeholder liaison

Instrumentation knowledge

FAA/EASA experience

Aerospace standards

Tools

Test equipment

Job description

Head of Validation at BOLD leads the coordination of Validation and Verification activities for high-performance battery systems across demanding industries. You will interact with the Chief of Certification and Safety, design and engineering teams, and your testing group to ensure safety and compliance.

You will implement safety requirements, manage clearance strategies, and liaise with authorities, while ensuring alignment with DOA processes and specification baselines.