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As a Certification Engineer reporting to the Certification Manager, you will play a crucial role in advancing aviation safety and innovation. Your primary mission will be to oversee the stringent FAA certification process for commercial aircraft seats and seating components. This is not just a job—its an opportunity to lead pioneering research, meticulously plan complex certification procedures, and ensure that every seat adheres to the highest standards of safety and performance.

If you are driven by a passion for aerospace engineering and committed to enhancing the comfort and security of passengers around the globe, this role is your chance to make a meaningful impact on the industry.

What You Will Do:

• Drive Innovation: Undertake significant engineering assignments that are integral to larger projects, employing your expertise to select optimal engineering techniques for problem-solving and design decisions.
• Be a Key Player: Represent the Certification and Structures team in critical design reviews, ensuring that all perspectives are considered in the decision-making process.
• Champion Compliance: Compile comprehensive FAA certification documentation for submission to commercial aircraft OEMs and regulatory agencies, playing a vital role in maintaining industry standards.
• Ensure Excellence: Review and approve design changes from a certification perspective, ensuring that all modifications meet regulatory requirements.
• Optimize Designs: Support design optimization initiatives, including weight reduction strategies, to enhance both performance and efficiency.
• Lead Testing Initiatives: Spearhead testing activities, including static and component-level testing, to validate the integrity and safety of seating components.
• Collaborate Effectively: Act as the certification representative within integrated project teams for various engineering projects, ensuring alignment and communication across disciplines.
• Communicate Results: Develop and prepare test plans, reports, and documentation for communication with regulatory agencies, showcasing compliance and promoting transparency.
• Manage Projects: Ensure the successful completion of assigned project phases within budgetary and time constraints, demonstrating your project management acumen.
• Define Engineering Approaches: Participate in defining engineering strategies and planning/executing the certification work for Main Cabin Seating Products Teams.
• Travel: This position requires 10 travel.

Step into a role where your expertise can directly influence the future of aviation. Join us and be part of a team that prioritizes safety, innovation, and excellence in every project.

Qualifications You Must Have:

• This position requires a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, or Civil Engineering and 2 years of relevant experience or an Advanced degree in the appropriate discipline. 
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship now or in the future. RTX will not offer sponsorship for this position.

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Ability to perform classical stress analysis.
• Familiarity with strengths of standard aviation materials.
• Prior working experience in the aerospace industry, specifically with aircraft interiors.
• Prior experience reviewing and approving drawings.
• Familiarity and/or experience with structural finite element analysis (FEA) methods and modeling applications.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills including the ability to prepare and give presentations.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively and productively with team members and cross functional teams.
• Ability to work proficiently in Microsoft Office Suite applications and engineering related software programs.

Collins Aerospace is a leader in technologically advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defense industry. Created in 2018 by bringing together Rockwell Collins and UTC Aerospace Systems, Collins Aerospace has the capabilities, comprehensive portfolio and expertise to solve customers’ toughest challenges and to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving global spanet.

At Collins Aerospace, our Interiors team is focused on innovation, safety and cost efficiency. But we don’t just get people from point A to point B. We’re committed to making air travel more comfortable, connected and secure. As a leader in aviation interior products and services we’re helping airlines and original equipment manufacturers create a positive experience for their customers. With offices and manufacturing facilities in more than 12 states across the U.S. and more than 10 countries around the globe, we’re changing the game of aircraft interiors. Are you ready to join our team?

What we offer:

• Eligible for relocation.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees
• Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Student Loan Repayment Program
• Life insurance and disability coverage
• Optional coverages you can buy: pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection
• Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits
• Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning
• Adoption Assistance         
• Autism Benefit
• Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions
• Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program
• Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits
• Bright Horizons, child and elder care services
• Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program
•  And more!

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• Diversity drives innovation; inclusion drives success. We believe a multitude of approaches and ideas enable us to deliver the best results for our workforce, workplace, and customers. We are committed to fostering a culture where all employees can share their passions and ideas so we can tackle the toughest challenges in our industry and pave new paths to limitless possibility.    
• This role is also eligible for the Re-Empower Program.  The Re-Empower Program helps support talented and committed professionals as they rebuild their capabilities, enhance leadership skills, and continue their professional journey.  Over the course of the 14-week program, experienced professionals will gain paid, on-the-job experience, have an opportunity to participate in sessions with leadership, develop personalized plans for success and receive coaching to guide their return-to-work experience.  Upon completion of the program, based on performance and contributions participants will be eligible for a career at RTX.

To qualify for the Raytheon Technologies, Re-Empower Program, candidates should:

• Be on a career break of one or more year at time of application
• Have prior experience in functional area of interest
• Have interest in returning in either a full-time or part-time position

At Collins Aerospace, our Interiors team is focused on innovation, safety and cost efficiency. But we don’t just get people from point A to point B. We’re committed to making air travel more comfortable, connected and secure. As a leader in aviation interior products and services, we’re helping airlines and original equipment manufacturers create a positive experience for their customers. With offices and manufacturing facilities in more than 12 states across the U.S. and more than 10 countries around the globe, we’re changing the game of aircraft interiors. Are you ready to join our team?

Please consider the following role type definitions as you apply for this role.

• Onsite: Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite. This includes all production and maintenance employees, as they are essential to the development of our products.

• Regardless of your role type, collaboration and innovation are critical to our business and all employees will have access to digital tools so they can work with colleagues around the world – and access to Collins sites when their work requires in-person meetings.

The salary range for this role is 64,000 USD - 128,000 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, location, education/training, and key skills.

Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays. Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.

Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual performance, business unit performance, and/or the company’s performance.

This role is a U.S.-based role. If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory, the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply.

RTX anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require RTX to shorten or extend the application window.

RTX is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.

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