How you'll help us Keep Climbing (overview & key responsibilities)
The Interiors Engineering department implements new passenger cabins and reconfigures existing cabins for Delta's aircraft fleet through the development and deployment of engineering solutions. The department supports the reconfiguration of Delta's cabins as an effort to improve our passengers' overall experience as well as to align with Delta Corporate Strategy. Within Interiors Engineering, the department is comprised of two teams: Cabin Avionics and Cabin Design. Interiors Engineering is currently seeking a Project Engineer to support the Cabin Design team.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Define scope for cabin related designs, integrations, installations, and certifications of cabin components and systems for Delta’s aircraft fleet.
- Coordinate with internal stakeholders, aircraft OEMs, component suppliers, and maintenance repair organizations, to support the design and development of cabin reconfigurations, new product development, and/or new aircraft specifications.
- Collect information, organize documents, and participate in design review meetings to develop Engineering Authorizations for prior-to-service or cabin retrofit projects.
- Provide onsite prototype and production support for aircraft modifications or prior-to-service visits.
- Develops and maintains awareness of pertinent industry activities and technology trends.
- Establishes work prioritization and balances multiple concurrent projects.
- Coordinates projects with internal and external organizations, including various commodity suppliers. Develops strong internal customer relationships and maintains high level of customer focus.
Benefits and Perks to Help You Keep Climbing
Our culture is rooted in a shared dedication to living our values – Care, Integrity, Resilience and Servant Leadership – every day, in everything we do. At Delta, our people are our success. At the heart of what we offer is our focus on Sharing Success with Delta employees. Exploring a career at Delta gives you a chance to see the world while earning great compensation and benefits to help you keep climbing along the way:
- Competitive salary, industry-leading profit sharing program, and performance incentives.
- 401(k) with generous company contributions up to 9%.
- New hires are eligible for up to 56 hours of paid personal time within a 12-month period.
- 10 paid holidays per calendar year.
- Birthing parents are eligible for 12-weeks of paid maternity/parental leave.
- Non-birthing parents are eligible for 2-weeks of paid parental leave.
- Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, vision, short/long term disability and life insurance benefits.
- Family care assistance through fertility support, surrogacy and adoption assistance, lactation support, subsidized back-up care, and programs that help with loved ones in all stages.
- Holistic Wellbeing programs to support physical, emotional, social, and financial health, including access to an employee assistance program offering support for you and anyone in your household, free financial coaching, and extensive resources supporting mental health.
- Domestic and International space-available flight privileges for employees and eligible family members.
- Career development programs to achieve your long-term career goals.
- World-wide partnerships to engage in community service and innovative goals created to focus on sustainability and reducing our carbon footprint.
- Business Resource Groups created to connect employees with common interests to promote inclusion, provide perspective and help implement strategies.
- Recognition rewards and awards through the platform Unstoppable Together.
- Access to over 500 discounts, specialty savings and voluntary benefits through Deltaperks such as car and hotel rentals and auto, home, and pet insurance, legal services, and childcare.
What you need to succeed (minimum qualifications)
- Candidates for this position should have a bachelor’s degree in engineering.
- Internal candidates must be performing satisfactorily in current position.
- Internal candidates with grade levels above the existing job posting should contact the hiring manager.
- Previous airline, military, OEM or MRO experience with commercial aircraft is strongly preferred.
- Must be willing to travel as required.
- Strong written and oral communication skills.
- Strong interpersonal skills.
- Embrace diverse people, thinking and styles.
- Ability to work well in cross-divisional teams.
- Consistently make safety and security, of self and others, the priority.
- Consistently prioritizes safety and security of self, others, and personal data.
- Embraces diverse people, thinking, and styles.
- Possesses a high school diploma, GED, or high school equivalency.
- Is at least 18 years of age and has authorization to work in the United States.
What will give you a competitive edge (preferred qualifications)
- Familiarity with airline operations and support systems.
- Familiarity with CFR’s and DOT regulations pertaining to aircraft cabin certification.
- Familiarity with use of Aircraft Technical Manuals (AMM, CMM, IPCs, WDMs, etc.)
- Familiarity with application of Safety Risk Management in technical applications is desired.
