Mechanical Certification
What is the role of the Mechanical Certification Engineer?
- To ensure that new seat mechanical designs meet the strict safety requirements set out by the regulatory authorities (FAA and EASA).
- To identify critical seats for test, then plan, conduct and report all of the testing required by the regulations, including dynamic (crash), occupant injury, static, abuse, cyclic and environmental tests.
- Maintain continued airworthiness of the product through its life.
What kind of applicant are we looking for?
- An engineer who can form concise and clear rational arguments to justify the qualification of each aspect of the design.
- Excellent technical report writing and communication within the company and with senior figures within Boeing, Airbus, EASA and the FAA.
- Someone with creativity, innovation and good knowledge of structures and strength of materials.
- A candidate with good organisational and project management skills.
- Suitable applicants should have a minimum 2:1 degree in Mechanical, Aeronautical, Automotive Engineering or similar.
What does Mechanical Certification offer to graduates?
- A specialist technical discipline offering very good career development opportunities.
- An intellectually challenging and varied role.
- The certification department runs an internal regulatory training scheme plus stress calculation and FEA training will be available.
- National and international travel to meetings with the customer and airframe manufacturers.
- International conferences with EASA and FAA where industry experts meet to discuss current issues and rulemaking.
- During the testing phase, hands-on experience of the product.
What are the objectives of the Mechanical Certification placement?
- Plan the certification of a product.
- Gain approval of the certification basis for a product with regulatory bodies and airframe manufacturers.
- Participate in resolving airworthiness issues arising on current and legacy products.
- Learn the basic regulations governing certification.
- Attend a preliminary or critical design review.
- Carry out compliance inspection.
- Run a static test programme and witness a dynamic test programme
- Prepare data package for ETSO and TSO approval.