UAV Systems Specialist

Duties and Responsibilities

• Write detailed bulletins that translate complex engineering investigations into concise, customer-ready documentation, including summaries of events and engineering recommendations.
• Work with internal and external customer stakeholders to determine scope, urgency, actions, impacts of field bulletins.
• Troubleshoot, analyze, and determine rework direction by utilizing standard engineering and scientific principles.
• Represent the organization in providing solutions to technical issues associated with specific anomalies to GA-ASI.
• Read and understand engineering drawings, bill of materials, specifications, technical documents, and technical publications.
• Research all applicable GA and customer databases related to bulletin development and closure (Sharepoint, Mendix, Team Center, REMIS, SAP, COLTS).
• Review bulletins prior to stakeholder review and signature approval.
• Obtain stakeholder concurrence and approval for bulletin release and closures.
• Maintain strict confidentiality of sensitive information.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Typically requires education or formal training equivalent to the completion of a bachelor's degree and five or more years of professional engineering/military technical and/or documentation experience.
• Strong technical writing skills – must be able to convey complex technical issues in a clear, concise manner.
• Experience working on aircraft (military or commercial) is highly desired.
• Experience with prior aviation flight and/or aviation maintenance (military or civilian) highly desired.
• Manned or Unmanned pilot certificate (military or civilian) highly desired.
• Able to work independently.
• Must be able to effectively work with multi-disciplined technical and non-technical staff.
• Strong familiarity with Microsoft Office is required.
• Must have thorough database research experience.
• Possess the ability to understand new concepts quickly; apply them accurately throughout an evolving environment; organize, schedule, and coordinate work phases; and, determine the appropriate approach at the task level or, with assistance, at the project level to provide solutions to a range of complex problems.
• Excellent communication, computer, documentation, presentation, and interpersonal skills, ability to work independently and as part of a team; able to perform complex tasks in one engineering area; and, lead a team of less experienced professional employees on semi-routine tasks.
• Able to work extended hours as required.
• Able to obtain and maintain DoD security clearance is required.