About this role
<p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><strong>Job Title:</strong> Scientist, Project Engineering - Certification Lead</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><strong>Job Code:</strong> 39792</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><strong>Job Location:</strong> Greenville, TX or Plano, TX</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><strong>Job Schedule:</strong> 9/80 - Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><strong>Job Description:</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">The Certification Project Engineer provides strategic leadership for certification and compliance activities across the sector, driving standardization, process maturity, and continuous improvement. This role partners with engineering, program leadership, and other functional teams to enhance certification planning, improve execution frameworks, and enable consistent compliance outcomes across multiple products and programs. The position offers the opportunity to shape certification strategy, influence organizational best practices, and strengthen readiness for customers and regulatory engagement.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><strong>Essential Functions:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Lead sector-wide certification strategy initiatives that improve consistency, efficiency, and compliance across programs and product lines.</span></li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Develop, standardize, and maintain certification processes, tools, templates, metrics, and best practices for use across the organization.</span></li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Partner with engineering, quality, program management, and functional leadership to identify gaps, risks, and opportunities related to certification planning and execution.</span></li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Drive continuous improvement activities focused on certification readiness, documentation quality, process compliance, and organizational effectiveness.</span></li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Provide guidance to program teams on certification approaches, compliance expectations, and interpretation of applicable regulatory, customer, and internal requirements.</span></li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Serve as a key liaison for certification-related coordination with internal stakeholders, customers, and regulatory representatives, as applicable.</span></li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Ability to obtain and maintain any required United States Government security clearance.</span></li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Perform other duties as assigned</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Qualifications:</span></strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 12 years of prior relevant engineering certification experience.</span></li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Graduate Degree and a minimum of 10 years of prior related engineering certification experience. </span></li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">In lieu of a degree, a minimum of 16 years of prior related engineering certification experience.</span></li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Demonstrated experience in certification, qualification, compliance, airworthiness, or related engineering activities for complex products or systems.</span></li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Demonstrated experience developing, improving, or governing technical processes within a regulated engineering environment.</span></li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Demonstrated experience working across cross-functional organizations to align technical, quality, and program objectives.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><strong>Preferred Additional Skills:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Experience leading continuous improvement initiatives across multiple programs, sites, or product lines.</span></li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Experience developing training content, guidance material, or playbooks that support organizational capability growth</span></li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Experience with certification plans, compliance matrices, approval documentation, and technical data package expectations.</span></li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Familiarity with aerospace and defense certification frameworks, airworthiness processes, standard work development or regulated product development environments.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">#LI-AM2</span></p>