Job Profile
The Liaison Engineer (LE) will provide technical engineering support for Vista Americas fleet of Gulfstream, Bombardier, and Textron aircraft with a focus on increasing fleet availability and overall aircraft reliability. The LE will be responsible for building in depth knowledge across all aircraft systems (Hydraulic, Pneumatic, Avionic & Electronic, Mechanical, etc.) and related maintenance practices to facilitate the development and implementation of fleet improvement initiatives.
The LE develops and uses various forms of aircraft data, analysis, and performance data to improve reliability, quality, and service life of aircraft systems. The LE is responsible for enabling establishing improvement goals, deliver on initiatives, influencing stakeholders to make targets and delivering industry leading fleet reliability and performance.
Jet Select is an affiliated operating partner of Vista in the US - the largest charter group in private aviation and the world’s first private aviation ecosystem, integrating a unique portfolio of companies offering asset-light solutions to cover all key aspects of business aviation.
Vista has a global reach with operational hubs across the globe and an expert workforce of over 4,000 aviation professionals. Vista's fast-paced growth and its relationship with the best partner operators open the door to lifelong career opportunities across the group - to create the best service in business aviation, in every region in the world.
Your Responsibilities
The LE will serve on the Technical Services Team as a multi-aircraft system expert. The LE shall have the following responsibilities:
- Establish the position as a technical engineering resource within the Liaison Engineering Team and Technical Services.
- Coordinate and engage in developing corrective actions, advising flight crews, Flight Operations and Maintenance, providing aircraft system troubleshooting guidance, and preventative maintenance practices.
- Develop and implement troubleshooting best practices for various aircraft systems.
- Collaborate closely with Maintenance Control, Base and Line Maintenance to resolve reoccurring discrepancies and generate preventative maintenance actions to reduce or eliminate their impact on aircraft availability.
- Support the effort to develop, maintain, and monitor fleet and aircraft level Direct Maintenance Cost with the focus of initiating DMC reduction initiatives, provide input to modify existing aircraft maintenance plans to account for aging aircraft, and optimize aircraft maintenance plans based upon aircraft utilization.
- Seek new and newly developing maintenance, fleet management techniques and processes to improve performance, availability, and to reduce operating costs.
- Support the development and maintain a database to track aircraft troubleshooting events and findings for future reference and to recommend adopting procedural improvements.
- Monitor fleet performance, flight crew feedback, reliability analysis and maintenance program changes for improvement opportunities and to initiate corrective actions.
- Support the review and assessment of Airworthiness Directives affecting aircraft within the fleet, providing guidance in terms of applicability, affected aircraft and potential benefit of implementing optional bulletins. for best practices to ensure timely compliance.
- Review and assess manufacturer, vendor and supplier Service Bulletins, Engineering Orders, Service Letters, Service Difficulty Reports, and other such documentation, applicable to specific aircraft, systems and/or components, to determine whether the recommended procedures, parts replacement, modifications, etc. should be incorporated and to determine the impact, cost, and downtime.
- Assist internal and external stakeholders in researching documents, parts, tooling, and methods to repair the aircraft.
Required Skills, Qualifications, and Experience
Key Attributes: Liaison Engineer (LE)
- Possess the ability to create and use logical, systematic processes to achieve goals.
- An understanding of FAA FAR Part 25 Aircraft Certification and AC 43.13-1B & 2B as applicable to modifications and upgrades of aircraft systems.
- Ability to visualize the necessary steps to reach a goal and naturally organize the process, modifying, as necessary.
- Effectively communicate, develop, and foster strong working relationships to drive team growth, engagement, and productivity.
- Demonstrates the ability to work cross-functionally to develop the best solutions.
- Capable of developing future engineers and system subject matter experts.
- Promotes working together to a common purpose to achieve team business benefits.
- Demonstrates skills in leading aircraft system reliability improvements.
- Capability to build subject expert level knowledge of Bombardier, Gulfstream and Textron aircraft systems and troubleshooting techniques.
- Capable of successfully delivering results and managing deadlines in a demanding environment.
- Demonstrates experience and skill in using aircraft maintenance and engineering tracking systems.
- Capable of efficiently using the Microsoft Office 365 suite of software tools, customized electronic aircraft maintenance tracking software (CAMP), and other software solutions for communication, analysis and to support historical records.
Physical Demands:
- The physical demands of this position are typical of an office environment.
- Occasionally, travel to meet with internal teams, manufactures and suppliers.
- Occasionally, visit to the aircraft where additional demands such as climbing ladders, kneeling, or walking long distances may be required.
Work Environment:
- The primary work environment is in the office area. The noise level in the work environment is moderate and can be loud.
- Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job.
- Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace engineering or similar.
- 7+ years of experience working in commercial or military aerospace industry.
- 3+ years of leading technical teams.
Affirmative Action/EEO statement:
Jet Select is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information, arrest record, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. Our management team is dedicated to this policy with respect to recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, benefits, employee activities and general treatment during employment.
