Airworthiness Certification Specialist - UK, Amazon Prime Air

• Bachelor, Master, or Doctorate of Science degree from an accredited course of study, in engineering, Science, technology field, or equivalent industry experience
• 5+ years of working directly with EASA and/or CAA on Type Certification or Airworthiness projects and familiarity with EU Basic Regulations and associated means of compliance and guidance materials for drones
• Experience developing certification artifacts within EASA and/or CAA regulations/requirements
• Experience working with commercial aviation aircraft certification and/or validation processes and procedures
• Experience in developing, contributing to, and/or maintaining processes, policies, and procedures
• Experience in aerospace systems engineering practices and complex system development lifecycle

Amazon Prime Air is seeking an experienced Airworthiness/Certification Engineer. This role is part of our Regulatory Affairs team and responsible for executing projects and initiatives to support the integration of our airworthiness/certification processes for drones across Prime Air, with a focus in the UK.

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While this role can be done remotely in the UK we have additional remote and on-site location options for this role in Europe, including but not limited to: Graz, Austria and Luxembourg.

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Key job responsibilities

• Developing airworthiness/certification deliverables (e.g. means of compliance documents, design verification reports) in collaboration with stakeholders.
• Partner with all Airworthiness Certification engineers to drive as much consistency as possible for efficient development of airworthiness/certification deliverables.
• Brief team on all relevant EASA guidance for design and certification of drones as well as regulatory changes
• Coordinating reviews and approvals of airworthiness/certification deliverables.
• Partner closely with various departments to develop and implement solutions to achieve regulatory approvals and airworthiness certification.
• Provide guidance on complex technical compliance related issues to achieve regulatory approvals and certification
• Partner with respective teams to strengthen overall compliance processes and system.
• Develop action plans for changes to certification processes and execute those plans through completion

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Cambridge, GBR

• Engineering/operations experience in civil/commercial/military drone operations
• 6+ years of relevant engineering experience with:
• SAE ARP4754A, ARP4761, Certification of Complex System
• Functional safety, systems safety, and design assurance processes (e.g. DO-160/178/254, 1309 design analysis)
• Experience with EASA guidelines for design verification of drones and special conditions for certification of light UAS (SC-LUAS)
• Experience with aviation technical standards groups (e.g. EUROCAE)
• Experience with certification processes, drone regulations (FAA, EASA, CAA, etc.) and compliance requirements
• Knowledge of challenges dealing with certifying autonomous drone systems
• Experience with Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) applications
• Drone Systems design, drone safety analysis, and/or certification
• Experience integrating business processes and applications
• Experience with requirements management systems
• Fluency in Spanish and/or Italian

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