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Engineering Specialist - Weights

Employer
Cirrus Aircraft
Location
Duluth, Minnesota, US
Salary
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Job Description:

Work with the engineering team to provide critical weight estimate and weight tracking for new and existing product lines. Weight tracking is a crucial role in the success of a project. The weights engineering specialist works with all engineering fields on a project and is responsible for accumulating and disseminating weight information in an organized and efficient manner for the entire project.

Sample Duties:
  • Determine realistic target weights and breakdowns for new projects
  • Accumulate weight information via drawings, calculations, or measurements
  • Determine predicted weight and center of gravity of the airplane
  • Track the weight changes with configuration changes and design evolutions
  • Communicate weight changes to project group in a timely and effective manner
  • Monitor production to ensure weight and locations don't drift from design
  • Assist weight reduction efforts by identifying and quantifying any potential savings
  • Assist experimental flight test with ballast requirements

Preferred Qualifications and Experience
  • Minimum of a two-year associates degree
  • Good communications and people skills
  • Detail and data oriented
  • Proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel, and VBA
  • Familiar with CAD, preferably Creo
  • Part 23 aircraft certification

Company

Since day one in 1984, Cirrus Aircraft has been committed to the future of aviation through smart safety, ease of operation and most adamantly, continuous innovation. Along the way, every turn has meant challenges and opportunities to grow general aviation–improving the flying experience as a whole.

Our goal is to utilize technology to drive enhanced safety, performance, sophistication and comfort. We are proud that today, after 30 years of dedication, the Cirrus brand is associated with these accolades and hallmarks that mean so much to us. Our line of all-composite personal aircraft-–the SR20, SR22 and turbocharged SR22T–lives up to this by incorporating advanced electronic and standard safety technologies including Cirrus Perspective by Garmin avionics and the unique Cirrus Airframe Parachute System® (CAPS®).

Our latest aircraft, the Vision Jet, raises the bar even higher as it ushers in a new era in personal transportation and introduces the world to “the personal jet.”

We’ve traveled far, but in many ways, we’re only just taking off. Join our team and become a part of the future today.

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