Job Description
Job Description
Job Summary
The Maintainability Engineer Senior plays a critical role in ensuring that aircraft systems, structures, and components are designed for efficient, safe, and cost‑effective maintenance throughout the lifecycle of the aircraft. This position collaborates closely with design engineering, customer support, reliability, manufacturing, and regulatory teams to embed maintainability requirements early in development and validate maintenance procedures after entry into service.
The ideal candidate blends engineering expertise with deep understanding of aircraft operations, maintenance environments, and regulatory frameworks influencing aircraft supportability.
Duties and Responsibilities/Essential Functions
- Leads maintainability integration for major systems or subsystems.
- Anticipates long term maintenance impacts and drives design modifications early.
- Performs trade studies and influences configuration decisions with engineering leadership.
- Leads MSG 3 analyses for complex systems.
- Optimizes maintenance intervals and drives alignment with reliability data.
- Partners with customer support to finalize task logic for maintenance planning docs.
- Develops detailed maintainability models and advanced analyses.
- Interprets results to influence design optimization.
- Correlates forecasted maintenance burden with operational data.
- Leads integrated maintenance demo events across systems.
- Interfaces with test, manufacturing, and prototype build teams to resolve issues.
- Drives corrective action implementation.
- Leads cross functional issue resolution for maintainability topics.
- Ensures maintenance procedures are user friendly and aligned with real world operator needs.
- Leads maintainability related certification work packages.
- Interfaces with DERs/DARs and prepares significant sections of certification documents.
- Travel of 25% may be required.
Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
- 4 - 7 years of experience in aircraft reliability engineering, maintainability engineering, or a related field, or equivalent A&P Mechanic experience.
- Strong technical background in aircraft systems, maintenance, and reliability engineering.
- Familiarity with FMEA/FMECA, FRACAS, MSG-3, RCM, ZSA.
- Experience supporting CFR (FAR) Part 135 operations.
- Experience with data analysis, root cause analysis, reliability testing, and continuous improvement methodologies.
- Strong communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and lead teams through change.
Our Benefits: Cirrus provides a range of exciting benefits, including:
- Comprehensive Health Coverage: Medical, vision, dental, with additional dependent coverage options
- Employer-Paid Coverages: Group term life, short- and long-term disability insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts: FSA and HSA offerings with company contributions to HSA
- Well-being: Calm Health, Employee Assistance Program, and wellness incentives through medical provider
- 401(k) Plan: Dollar-for-dollar match up to 5% after 90 days, with 100% vesting at 1 year of service
- PTO: Various PTO plans starting at 120 hours accrued within the first year
- Additional Time off Benefits: Paid holidays, 2 weeks of Paid Parental leave, paid time for funeral leave and jury duty
- Career Development: Tuition reimbursement program and professional growth opportunities
- Exclusive Discounts: Cirrus Store, partner and marketplace discounts available
- Community & Engagement: Company and employee clubs at various locations
These benefits are designed to support your well-being, growth, and enjoyment at Cirrus!
Competencies
To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:
- Strategic mindset.
- Drives results.
- Communicates Effectively
- Plans and Aligns
- Manages Complexity
- Self-management
Other Duties
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 position. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice. Work beyond 40 hours per week may be required.
Cirrus is dedicated to a drug free work environment promoting equal employment opportunity. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, national origin, color, age, disability, religion, pregnancy, veteran status, marital and family status, sexual orientation, receipt of public assistance, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.