Scientist, Project Engineer - Certification Lead PE
On-siteGreenville, Texas, United States
Job Summary
Lead sector-wide certification strategy initiatives to improve consistency, efficiency, and compliance across programs and product lines. Develop, standardize, and maintain certification processes, tools, templates, metrics, and best practices for the organization. Partner with engineering, quality, program management, and functional leadership to identify gaps, risks, and opportunities related to certification planning and execution. Drive continuous improvement activities focused on certification readiness, documentation quality, process compliance, and organizational effectiveness. Provide guidance to program teams on certification approaches, compliance expectations, and interpretation of applicable regulatory, customer, and internal requirements. Serve as a key liaison for certification-related coordination with internal stakeholders, customers, and regulatory representatives. Requires a Bachelor's Degree with 12 years of prior relevant engineering certification experience or equivalent years without a degree. Ability to obtain and maintain a United States Government security clearance is required. Schedule is 9 out of 14 days totaling 80 hours with every other Friday off. Location is Greenville, TX or Plano, TX.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree
- minimum of 12 years of prior relevant engineering certification experience
- Graduate Degree and a minimum of 10 years of prior related engineering certification experience
- In lieu of a degree, a minimum of 16 years of prior related engineering certification experience
- Demonstrated experience in certification, qualification, compliance, airworthiness, or related engineering activities for complex products or systems
- Demonstrated experience developing, improving, or governing technical processes within a regulated engineering environment
- Demonstrated experience working across cross-functional organizations to align technical, quality, and program objectives
- Ability to obtain and maintain any required United States Government security clearance
- U.S. citizenship
- eligibility requirements for access to classified information
Desired Qualifications
- Experience leading continuous improvement initiatives across multiple programs, sites, or product lines
- Experience developing training content, guidance material, or playbooks that support organizational capability growth
- Experience with certification plans, compliance matrices, approval documentation, and technical data package expectations
- Familiarity with aerospace and defense certification frameworks, airworthiness processes, standard work development or regulated product development environments
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