The Structures Company is seeking a Stress Engineering Manager in Bothell, WA
Must have aircraft interiors experience
Minimum of 8 years' industry experience and 4 years' leadership experience
Summary
Provides leadership for Stress Engineering group within the Engineering Department supporting ongoing and future programs.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Ensures adherence to schedule, budget and quality in accordance with program requirements.
Effectively leads and manages a team of Stress Engineers and organizes them to substantiate aircraft designs and generate substantiation documents that will be acceptable to the FAA.
Responsible for recruiting, hiring, training and evaluating staff. Makes recommendations, initiates promotions, transfers and disciplinary action.
Conducts 1:1 discussions, annual performance reviews and mid-year reviews and salary adjustments.
Sets the quality standard for the engineering department and ensures processes are established and standards are met for their specific discipline.
Coaches, trains and mentors a team of Stress Engineers to keep all team members working efficiently.
Develops analytical tools, data bases, workflow procedures aimed at streamlining and optimizing project support.
Manages multiple priorities and competing tasks while making decisions as to priority of tasks and assignment of team members.
Works closely and constructively with other departments within the organization to gain consensus on the best plan of addressing each engineering issue requiring stress team input.
Communicates clearly with the engineering team, other departments and vendors, as required, to facilitate smooth substantiation of designs.
Prepares meeting materials and presents status of program's structural substantiation required to keep all parties informed of progress, gains team consensus and leads the structural substantiation package to completion.
Creates structural substantiation plans, prepares staffing plans, anticipates critical path issues, and sets a schedule to meet program schedules and budgets.
Assists with bids and estimations of costs for new programs.
Maintains regular attendance including being at work, being on time to work and working full shifts.
Other duties as assigned.
Competencies
To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:
Core Competencies
Adaptability - Adapts to changes in the work environment, manages competing demands, and accepts constructive criticism/feedback and changes approach or method to best fit the situation.
Communications - Expresses ideas and thoughts effectively in verbal and written form, exhibits good listening and comprehension, and keeps others informed and uses appropriate communication methods.
Dependability - Responds to requests for service and assistance, follows instruction and responds to management direction, takes responsibility for own actions and doing the best job possible, keeps commitments, and maintains reliable attendance.
Initiative - Sets and achieves challenging goals, demonstrates persistence and overcomes obstacles, measures self against standard of excellence, recognizes and acts on opportunities, and takes calculated risks to accomplish goals.
Teamwork - Balances team and individual responsibilities, exhibits objectivity and openness to others' views, gives and welcomes feedback, contributes to building a positive team spirit, and puts success of team above own interests.
Work Quality - Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness, displays commitment to excellence, looks for ways to improve and promote quality, applies feedback to improve performance, and monitors own work to ensure quality.
Job Core Competencies
Cost Consciousness - Works within approved budget, develops and implements cost saving measures, contributes to profits and revenue and conserves organizational resources.
Judgment - Displays willingness to make decisions, exhibits sound and accurate judgment, supports and explains reasoning for decisions, includes appropriate people in decision-making process, and makes timely decisions.
Managing People - Provides direction and gains compliance, includes subordinates in planning, takes responsibility for subordinates' activities, makes self available to subordinates, provides regular performance feedback, and develops subordinates' skills and encourages growth.
Planning & Organization - Prioritizes and plans work activities, uses time efficiently, plans for additional resources, integrates changes smoothly, sets goals and objectives, and works in an organized manner.
Summary of Education, Experience & Certification
Bachelor's degree (B.S.) in Civil, Mechanical, or Aeronautical Engineering; minimum 8 years of industry experience; a minimum of 4 years' experience successfully leading a team of engineers, including a proven track record of effective team building and talent development; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Aerospace interiors background required.
Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Ability to motivate, coach and manage a team including conducting annual performance reviews.
Strong written and verbal communication and effective presentation skills.
Knowledge of aircraft interiors and drawing development, installation and FAA requirements.
Working knowledge 14 CFR Part 25 Regulations as it pertains to Aircraft Structures, Interiors, Materials, Mechanical Systems and Payload Systems.
Working knowledge of industry accepted Finite Element Program, NASTRAN.
Working knowledge of classical hand analysis of aircraft structural components and assemblies.
Working knowledge of accepted design and substantiation practices and solutions in Aircraft Industry.
Proficient with Microsoft Office applications. Excellent technical, conceptual, and financial skills required.
Ability to motivate team efforts to accomplish goals.
Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
Ability to work well independently and cross-functionally as part of an established and growing team.
Strong, time-management, and problem-solving skills.
Ability to sit for extended periods of time, use hands to lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and have close/color vision ability to adjust focus.
Ability to travel as required.
Ability to work outside of core business hours as required.