Reliability & Maintainability Engineer
Bell Helicopter - Fort Worth, Texas
The Reliability & Maintainability Engineer is responsible for developing, managing and communicating the reliability & maintainability methodology for a new military development program to internal and external customers. This position is based at Bell Helicopter’s Ft. Worth, TX headquarters facility.
Position Responsibilities:
- Determine the parameters (e.g. MTBF, MTTR) necessary to support top level aircraft specifications and work with IPTs to develop IPT level allocations.
- Perform R&M assessments of designs; from preliminary through detail design work.
- Develop sustainment plan in conjunction with design, logistics and maintenance IPT’s.
- Formulate reliability analyses and predictions (including development of failure rate estimates based on handbook techniques and historical data) using Windchill Quality Solutions software.
- Perform Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analyses (FMECA), Fault Tree Analyses (FTA) and testability assessments including Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT), Highly Accelerated Stress Screening (HASS), fault detection and fault isolation.
- Assess manufacturing parametrics and maintenance removal times.
Education Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace or Systems Engineering is required.
- Masters Degree in Mechanical, Aeronautical or Electrical Engineering - or other related discipline – is preferred.
Position Requirements:
- 10 years of R&M experience in a defense related industry - or 8 years in R&M and 12 plus years in a related Engineering field is preferred.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office
- Demonstrated communication skills needed to brief top-level management, customers and/or large groups on an occasional-to-frequent basis
- Candidates must be eligible to obtain Secret Security Clearance
- Prior military experience maintaining rotary or tiltrotor aircraft is preferred.
- Existing Secret, Top Secret clearance is preferred.
Additional Preferred Requirements:
- Recognized Subject Matter Expert (SME) in one or more Reliability, Maintainability & Testability disciplines (e.g. FMECA, HALT, etc)
- Applicable experience formulating reliability analyses and predictions (including development of failure rate estimates based on handbook techniques and historical data) preferably using PTC Windchill Quality Solutions software.
- Knowledge of procedures involved with collecting, analyzing, and scoring of Failure Reporting, Analysis and Corrective Action System (FRACAS) data.
- Recent experience performing Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Engineering Investigations (EI) and Corrective Action Plans (CAP) for failed aircraft components.
- Knowledge of rotary aircraft systems/sub-systems to include troubleshooting techniques, reliability/maintainability issues and assessment of maintenance removal times.
- Proficient in the review of flight logs, quality records, manufacturing records and engineering drawings including use of CAD software, preferably CATIA.
- Applicable experience performing Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analyses (FMECA).
- Experience in conducting engineering investigations with suppliers and customers and participation in Reliability Review scoring boards
- Applicable experience performing testability assessments including Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT), Highly Accelerated Stress Screening (HASS), fault detection and fault isolation.
- Familiarity and/or experience with reliability test plans, R&M program plans, Statements of Work (SOW) and specification preparation.
- Applicable experience performing maintainability analyses and predictions, to include development of maintenance times from Maintainability Task Analysis (MTA) using elemental time data, familiarity with maintainability predictions standards, maintainability techniques and maintainability design best practices.
- Applicable experience providing analytical support to Condition Based Maintenance, Integrated Vehicle Health Management (CBM/IVHM) efforts; specifically, in the area of prognostics development and validation.
- Familiarity and/or experience with determining optimal maintenance tasking based on reliability parameters (RCM) and maintenance significant items (MSG3).
- Experience in performing Business Case Analysis (BCA) in support of Corrective Action Plan development and recommendations.
- Familiarity and/or experience with performing or assisting in performance of Direct Operating Cost and O&S Cost Analyses including determining R&M parameters necessary for accurate algorithm creation.
- Familiarity and/or experience with developing Reliability Substantiation Specifications and FRACAS evaluations supporting Product Support Agreement/Long Term Agreement (PSA/LTA) efforts.
- Experience with COTS avionics components and associated R&M characteristics.
- Familiarity with creating or assisting in creation of Repair Bills Of Material (RBOM), repair procedure and Damage Limits & Tolerances (DL&T), Battle Damage Assessment (BDA).
Posted: 30+ days ago
