Engineer I

CHIPTON-ROSS Inc.; Wall Township (NJ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

CHIPTON-ROSS Inc. is seeking an experienced aerospace/mechanical engineer in Wall Township, NJ to provide technical responses to customers, propose solutions for in-service issues, and ensure follow-up on identified problems.

The role involves educating customers on maintenance, leading technical reviews, and supporting several teams during customer visits. Responsibilities include site interventions, presenting system behavior, training maintenance staff, and driving root-cause analysis for

Qualifications

• Bachelor or Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering or Aerospace Engineering, or 5 to 10 years related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Engineering degree and/or experience preferable in mechanics, especially pneumatics.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical answers to questions from customers (external and internal).
• Propose solutions to in-service problems to meet customer expectations.
• Ensure technical follow-up of problems identified by customers.
• Educate customers on good maintenance practices for our products.
• Lead and participate in technical reviews at customers’ sites or conferences.
• Support Safran Aerosystems teams for technical matters and customer visits.
• Carry out interventions at customers’ sites.
• Present the technical behavior of systems in service.
• Train on product use with training team and maintenance technicians.
• Identify, quantify, and report major technical problems and drive root-cause with design offices.
• Analyze customer-reported problems and coordinate current fleet status.
• Lead expertise of new damage cases and identify root causes and potential solutions.
• Conduct feedback analyses and support reliability calculations; alert and initiate actions with sustaining and design teams.
• Collaborate on improvement plans for design changes and product development.

Skills

Reading drawings

Teamwork

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Communication skills

Independent work

Education

Bachelor or Master in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering

5–10 years related experience or equivalent

Job description

Basic Qualifications

• a) Education
  • Bachelor or Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering or Aerospace Engineering, or 5 to 10 years related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Engineering degree and/or experience preferable in mechanics, especially pneumatics.
• b) Experience
  • 5 years of experience in engineering or repair position related to commercial and/or general aviation is required: design engineering, or sustaining, or technical support, service engineering, training.
• c) Knowledge and Technical Skills
  • Ability to work several issues in parallel
  • Ability to work in team
  • Ability to read, analyze, and interpret engineering drawings, specifications charts, wiring diagrams, schematics, and assembly/test procedures.
  • Ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems.
  • Ability to solve complex technical problems and possess a strong ownership and drive to bring issues to closure.
  • Ability to work unsupervised in a highly dynamic environment
• d) Communication Skills
  • Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community.
  • Ability to effectively present information to management, public groups, and/or top management.
  • Ability to lead a technical meeting
  • Ability to give technical presentations to customers

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

Position Responsibilities

• Provide technical answers to questions from external and internal customers
• Propose solutions to in-service problems in order to meet customer expectations
• Ensure technical follow-up of the problems identified by our customers
• Educate customers on good maintenance practices on our products
• Lead and participate in technical reviews at customers' sites and/or conferences
• Support the Safran Aerosystems teams for technical matters (validation of technical warranties, in-service behavior, identification of induced damage, etc.) and for their customer visits (provide information, train on technical subjects, participate in reviews)
• Carry out interventions at customers' sites
• Present the technical behavior of systems in service
• Train on the use of the products in conjunction with the training team and maintenance technicians
• Identify, quantify, and report major technical problems, participate in their resolution with the design offices
• Analyze technical problems reported by customers (airlines or aircraft manufacturers), coordinate and present the current situation as well as the overall problems of the fleet
• Lead the expertise of new damage cases, work on the identification of root causes and potential solutions
• Carry out feedback analyses and support the operational reliability calculations of the products, then alert and initiate the necessary actions with the sustaining, design office and program teams. Collect in-service behavior information from customers.
• Collaborate in the definition of improvement plans for design changes. Participate in the development and monitoring of the development of solutions.
• Participate in the definition of acceptable damage criteria and product return to service studies
• Be the pilot of the after-sales department for the implementation of technical modifications to products in service
• Participate in in-service product improvement plans
• Pilot cross-functional teams responsible for supporting sales and repairs of evolving products
• Validate and prioritize maintenance technical documentation update needs
• Provide feedback: share support requirements and feedback with internal development and support teams
• Contribute to product improvement
• Report service experience during the design of new products and support the Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) department in the development of maintainability plans for new products
• Take action for flight safety: report and analyze topics related to the safety of operations in compliance with deadlines
• Bring technical expertise to customers to investigate root causes
• Participate in the causal analysis, the 8D process, and implementing changes

Preferred Qualifications

• Same as required education: Bachelor or Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering or Aerospace Engineering, or 5 to 10 years related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Engineering degree and/or experience preferable in mechanics, especially pneumatics.

Work Hours

Full-Time – Monday-Friday 08:00am-05:00pm