Sr. Reliability and Maintainability Engineer

at  Supernal

Supernal is at the forefront of creating emerging mobility solutions that will foster the development of human-centered cities. We are designing a completely new electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft tailored to the mobility needs of future cities. This allows passengers a seamless intermodal journey that safely transports them to their final destination. We fuse research in autonomy, robotics, aviation and services to define a new category of mobility for the world’s communities. We believe in creative thinking and collaboration to help build a better mobility experience for everyone, improving people’s ability to move – whether for work or play.

WHAT WE DO:

The Sr. Reliability and Maintenance Engineer plays a key role in the development of eVTOL urban air mobility product & services solutions. This position requires an experienced professional with expertise in the definition and application of processes and procedures in alignment with SAE ARP4754A and SAE 4761, reliability prediction calculations, management, and performance measurement within an agile product development environment. This role works with the engineering verticals and will liaise closely with the Supernal Strategy Team to ensure requirements meet our customer & business case needs.
Supernal provides an inviting open-space workplace designed to foster collaboration, which aligns with one of our core values. This position is required to work on-site 5 days a week.

• Support design and development through requirements documentation, redundancy evaluation, and proactive design reliability liaising to ensure compliance against Supernal’s design standards
• Support and review system block diagrams, interface control documents, and electrical schematics for compliance, redundancy, and accuracy against requirements and concept of operations
• Collaborate and support the systems safety team with development of functional hazard assessments (FHAs)
• Support Design & Development Engineers as a critical partner to identify risk as early as possible through tools such as Failure Modes and Effects Analysis, Physics of Failure Methodologies, and Analysis + Test Data Reviews, then coordinate mitigation action plans to proactively lead the Design Reliability Efforts
• Support the Design Requirements Process and develop, derive and decompose Reliability and Maintainability requirements for aircraft systems and components
• Support Development Milestone Reviews such as Drawing Reviews, SRR, PDR, CDR, and support the production hand off process with Quality Engineering
• Lead and manage the Qualification & Traceability matrix alongside Requirements and FMEA documentation
• Support root cause analysis and corrective action for issues found during R&D and Qualification testing alongside the Development, Quality and Test Engineering Teams
• Lead and support FMECA (Failure Mode and Effects Criticality Analysis) evaluations and predictive analyses
• Perform predictive reliability analysis to calculate probability of loss of control, loss of asset, and MTBF utilizing requirements, specifications and Bills of Materials (BOMs) with the FMEA and FMECA
• Perform Weibull analysis for Reliability Performance Reports
• Liaison with Quality Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering to ensure all inspection and acceptance test gates and requirements are in place and documented into a clear process
• Host regular metrics reviews to highlight key problem areas for deployed product.
• Propose and coordinate corrective actions to closure to improve data performance trends
• Partner with PMO organization to execute build plan
• Requires up to 10% of domestic and international travel
• Other duties as assigned