Senior Prototype Build, Test & Validation Engineer

Embraer; Melbourne, Northern (FL, KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Embraer in Melbourne, FL seeks a Prototype Build, Test, & Validation Lab Engineer IV to coordinate prototype fabrication and testing in accordance with specifications and drawings. You will plan safety assessments, allocate resources, and ensure timely execution of prototype activities.

You will lead safety compliance, coordinate with project teams, and drive continuous improvement to meet quality, schedule, and cost goals in a fast-paced aerospace environment.

Qualifications

• Must have a bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related field.
• Generally minimum 5 years of experience in prototype and/or mockup, fabrication, and test and validation labs, ideally for aerospace.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary safety representative accountable for Environmental, Health, and Safety topics within the labs, actively promoting a safety-first culture and ensuring a safe working environment for team personnel, visitors, and supporting functions.
• Ensure the prototype lab team and visitors follow company job safety policies and all regulatory requirements, including OSHA, EPA, and state and federal regulations.
• Coordinate proactive safety risk identification, mitigation planning, and follow-up actions for prototype fabrication, shop activities, test setups, tooling, equipment usage, and lab operations.
• Ensure Job Safety Analysis, risk assessments, required permits, personal protective equipment, machine guarding and safety controls are properly defined, communicated, and verified before work execution.
• Develop aircraft prototype and/or mockup interior engineering packages as well as test and validation activities based on market, product, and certification requirements in order to ensure adherence to quality as well as the overall program cost and schedule goals.
• Responsible for build and test capabilities and capacity, in line with EETC road maps and strategies
• Plan the prototype lab technicians’ daily activities, including risk assessment and control measurements per company for safe operation.
• Provide long-term capacity planning forecasts for all drive unit labs, in collaboration with the program management team
• Manage and organize prototype shop and the lab fabrication areas such as metal shop, wood shop, electrical and electronic shop, etc.
• Oversee continuous improvement initiatives in all operational activities (build and test)
• Plan and purchase tools, materials, and consumables necessary for prototype lab operation.
• Perform prototype and proof-of-concept tests from the manufacture, preparation, setup, fixtures surrogates, and all addiction tool necessary.
• Manage the instrumentation calibration plan according to company-established procedures.
• Ensure project-related engineering data is in compliance with corporate policies and certification requirements
• Applies technical principles, theories, and concepts to solve a wide range of challenging prototype, mockup, and proof of concept fabrication
• Support the development projects technically during quotation, execution, and certification concerning mockups, prototypes, and proof of concepts in coordination with the project management office.
• Develop and produce different levels of mockups representation from volumetric up to high fidelity mockups for sales and commercial purposes.
• Support the aircraft production line with the fabrication of tooling, fixtures, and GSE.

Skills

Prototype development

Lab coordination

Safety management

Manufacturing knowledge

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Embraer in Melbourne, FL seeks a Prototype Build, Test, & Validation Lab Engineer IV to coordinate prototype fabrication and testing in accordance with specifications and drawings. You will plan safety assessments, allocate resources, and ensure timely execution of prototype activities.

You will lead safety compliance, coordinate with project teams, and drive continuous improvement to meet quality, schedule, and cost goals in a fast-paced aerospace environment.