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Jun 1, 2011 11:21 AM
Certification Engineer
Location: Wichita, KS | Department: Engineering | Date Posted: February 4, 2011
Job Description
Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
Activities associated with certification of Mid-Continent designed products, such as:
- Authoring of certification plans, test plans, and/or test reports
- Execution of test programs to verify compliance to all applicable performance, regulatory, and quality requirements
- Identify and participate with external resources and labs to perform tests out-of-house
- Design, build, and/or specification of equipment and accessories necessary for test and new product development
- Interaction with FAA representatives as needed to support certification
Activities associated with evaluation of new technology, components, designs, etc:
- Assistance creating product definition and specifications driven by regulatory requirements
- Work with design engineers to identify solutions to technical challenges
- Research requirements and technology to determine feasibility within an application
- Test or otherwise provide sufficient data to verify viability of technology incorporation
- Part and vendor evaluation and qualification
Activities associated with production support:
- Specify and/or build designed test equipment for the purpose of production qualification
- Write acceptance test procedures, minimum performance requirements, and related items
- Troubleshoot test failures and product designs
Other responsibilities as assigned:
- Become knowledgeable of industry, regulatory, and customer standards/requirements
- Assist with prototype build and evaluation
- Coordinate with other functional teams during the life cycle of the product
Experience/Education:
- Bachelor’s of Science in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering preferred, EET or similar considered
- 5+ years relevant experience (compensation based on experience)
- Direct experience with industry, regulatory, and/or military standards/specifications required
- Familiarity/experience with RTCA DO-160, RTCA DO-311 and FAA TSO highly preferred
Skills:
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including ability to interface with production personnel, engineering, management, and other departments.
- Organized, focused, and results-oriented with the ability to work on multiple projects a must
- Ability to apply gained knowledge across multiple applications
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office products required
- Must pass FAA/DOT drug screen and background check
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Electrical Design Engineer — Battery Systems Emphasis
Location: Wichita, KS | Department: Engineering | Date Posted: September 13, 2010
Job Description
Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
High level of proficiency and experience with electrical hardware design of new products related to:
- Analog and digital circuits
- RF susceptibility protection and emission control
- The use and application of power electronics
- Coordinated effort with mechanical packaging with respect to product definition
- Creating schematics and using circuit design software to produce printed circuit boards
- Research of new components, technologies, and methods to incorporate into new designs
- Prototyping and execution of test programs to verify compliance to all applicable performance, regulatory, and quality requirements
- Coordinate with other functional teams during the life cycle of the product and be responsible for design modifications as required
- Support customer and regulatory requirements with FMEA, block diagrams, state machines, etc
- Support production facilities in the manufacture and testing of products
- Complete documentation of the design in the required formats
- Engineering Change Orders (ECOs) of new and existing designs
- Bill of Material (BOM) creation and maintenance
- Part and vendor evaluation and qualification
Experience/Education:
- Bachelor’s of Science in Electrical Engineering from accredited university required
- 5+ years relevant experience (compensation based on experience)
Preferred experience and understanding of:
- Multi-cell, rechargeable lithium battery pack circuit and protection design
- Creation of battery charging and cell balancing techniques
- Multiple battery chemistries including lithium variants, sealed lead-acid, and more
Experience with DO-160, DO-178, DO-254 and other aviation standards a plus
Skills:
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including ability to interface with production personnel, engineering, management, and other departments
- Organized, focused, and results-oriented with the ability to work on multiple projects
- Ability to apply gained knowledge across multiple applications
- Schematic capture and PCB layout software experience required (PADS preferred)
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office products required
- Working knowledge of AutoCAD preferred
- Experience with Design for Manufacture (DFM) principles a plus
- Must pass FAA/DOT drug screen and background check.
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Electrical Design Engineer — Power Electronics Emphasis
Location: Wichita, KS | Department: Engineering | Date Posted: Jan 18, 2011
Job Description
Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
High level of proficiency and experience with electrical hardware design of new products related to:
- Analog and digital circuits
- The use and application of power electronics and switch-mode power supplies
- RF emission control and susceptibility protection
- Coordinated effort with mechanical packaging with respect to product definition
Inverter products to incorporate the following concepts and challenges:
- Low-distortion (<3%) pure sine wave output
- Modular architecture to allow for changes to voltage or frequency output
- Short, overload, overtemp, transient and related protection schemes
- Power ranges from 10-2000W with 85%+ efficiency
- Knowledge and implementation of magnetics and associated technologies
- Understanding of trade-offs between full-bridge, half-bridge, forward, flyback, and other topologies very helpful
Creating schematics and coordinating with PCB layout resources
Research of new components, technologies, and methods to incorporate into new designs
Prototyping and execution of test programs to verify compliance to all applicable performance, regulatory, and quality requirements
Coordinate with other functional teams during the life cycle of the product and be responsible for design modifications as required
Support production facilities in the manufacture and testing of products
Document designs in required formats, including BOMs, ECOs, and work instructions
Part and vendor evaluation and qualification
Experience/Education:
- Bachelor’s of Science in Electrical Engineering from accredited university required
- 5+ years relevant experience (compensation based on experience)
- Preference given to candidates with RTCA DO-160 familiarity and/or aviation/military standards for inverters
Skills:
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including ability to interface with production personnel, engineering, management, and other departments
- Organized, focused, and results-oriented with the ability to work on multiple projects a must
- Ability to apply gained knowledge across multiple applications
- Schematic capture, simulation and PCB layout software experience required (PADS preferred)
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office products required
- Working knowledge of AutoCAD preferred
- Experience with Design for Manufacture (DFM) principles a plus
- Must pass FAA/DOT drug screen and background check.
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Electrical Design Engineer — Software Emphasis
Location: Wichita, KS | Department: Engineering | Date Posted: Jan 18, 2011
Job Description
Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
Software design, validation and verification of new products related to:
- Positional awareness and strapdown inertial navigation
- USB, RS-232, ARINC, custom protocols
- Efficient algorithms for rendering graphics and fonts
- Document creation and task management for coordination with the FAA and external consultants towards certification of software and complex hardware systems
- Complete conformed documentation of the design in the required formats
- Electrical hardware design, evaluation, and/or testing of new products
- Research of new components, technologies, and methods to incorporate into new designs
- Support production facilities in the manufacture and testing of products
- SourceSafe or similar code revision maintenance process
- Engineering Change Orders (ECOs) of new and existing designs
- Bill of Material (BOM) creation and maintenance
Experience/Education:
- Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering from accredited university
- 3+ years relevant experience (compensation based on experience
- Embedded software design using C/C++ or assembly language
- System modeling and software validation and verification testing
- Familiarity with formal coding protocols/standards (MISRA-C and/or similar)
Helpful Experience:
- Specific experience with RTCA DO-178B and DO-254 for the purposes of FAA certification of software and complex hardware based products
- Power PC and/or Freescale Code Warrior knowledge useful
- Digital or analog circuit design and simulation
- RTL design and simulation of FPGA or PLD components using VHDL/Verilog
- Synthesis, verification, timing analysis of FPGA components using ModelSim or similar CAE tools
- Mixed-signal PCB Design using PADS or similar CAE tools
Skills:
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including ability to interface with production personnel, engineering, management, and other departments
- Organized, focused, and results-oriented with the ability to work on multiple parallel projects
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office products required\
- Must pass FAA/DOT drug screen and background check.
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Mechanical Design Engineer
Location: Wichita, KS | Department: Engineering | Date Posted: May 3, 2011
Job Description
Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
- Mechanical design of new products; electromechanical, motors, shafts, bearings, springs, machined, molded, sheet metal, DFM, electrical interconnect, etc
- Research of new parts, processes, or methods to incorporate into new designs
- Design to meet and support regulatory compliance and qualification testing of new products
- Prototyping and testing for design validation
- Design documentation including solid modeling and assembly drawings
Engineering Change Orders (ECOs) of new and existing designs - Bill of Material (BOM) creation and maintenance
- Creation of manufacturing work instructions for production implementation of designs
- Implementation of new engineering designs as they transition to production
- Assessment of tooling/assembly fixture requirements including design and specification
- Part and vendor evaluation and qualification
Experience/Education:
- Bachelor’s of Science in Mechanical Engineering from accredited university required– 3.2 minimum GPA or 4 years relevant experience required
- 4 years experience in electromechanical design preferred
Skills:
- Experience in electromechanical product design where mechanical and electrical requirements are interdependent to meet performance and test specifications
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including ability to interface with production personnel, engineering, management, and other departments
- Project management skills including setting and meeting deadlines with a perspective on the defined product definition and total project goal
- Organized and results-oriented
- Capable of self-directed project and task initiation
- Solid modeling (3D) software experience required; SolidWorks preferred
- Incorporation of Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA) principles
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office products required
- Working knowledge of AutoCAD required
- Must pass FAA/DOT drug screen and background check
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Electrical Support Engineer / PCB Designer
Location: Wichita, KS | Department: Engineering | Date Posted: May 21, 2011
Job Description
Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
Layout of printed circuit board files from electrical schematic information, including:
- Coordination of mechanical and electrical requirements to meet product definition
- Library creation and maintenance of components and associated symbology
- Complete documentation of the design in the required formats
- Engineering activities related to the procurement, build, and troubleshooting of circuit board designs and their interfaces
- Support production facilities in the manufacture and testing of products
- Component package evaluation and qualification including research, selection, testing, and documentation
- Development of PCB Layout standards, practices, and guidelines in accordance with internal requirements, industry standards, and external manufacturability specifications
- Working with board creation, manufacturing assembly, and component suppliers
- Coordinate with other functional teams such as purchasing, inventory, quality, and manufacturing as needed
- Engineering Change Orders (ECOs) of new and existing designs
- Bill of Material (BOM) creation and maintenance
Experience/Education:
- Technical degree in electronics or electrical related background from accredited university
- 5+ years relevant experience (compensation based on experience)
Skills:
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including ability to interface with production personnel, engineering, management, and other departments
- Organized, focused, and results-oriented with the ability to work on multiple project
- Ability to apply gained knowledge across multiple applications
- Printed circuit layout software required (PADS preferred)
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office products required
- Working knowledge of AutoCAD preferred
- Experience with Design for Manufacture (DFM) principles a plus
- Must pass FAA/DOT drug screen and background check
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