Cabin Design Engineer

Engineering** **Cabin Design Engineer** Mobile, AL Posted: 5/21/2025 Job Description Job ID#: 211479 Job Category: Engineering Position Type: Associate - W2 Shift: 1 **PDS Defense, Inc. is seeking a Cabin Design Engineer III, in Mobile, AL. Job ID#211479** **Job Description:** The **Design Engineer** is responsible for developing solutions to a variety of complex engineering problems, requiring judgment and ingenuity with the client's product lines. General responsibilities include A350, A320, A330 module customization. Specific activities include but are not limited to: product development support, existing product customization, qualification and certification documentation review, continued airworthiness evaluation, cabin installation definition/drawings, and component supplier interface/oversight. **Meet the team:** Our Engineers have the privilege of working on complex, highly engineered machines and are involved at all stages of the aircraft life cycle, from product development to manufacturing and direct support to our airline customers. If you're interested in designing, creating, and testing the present and future of the client's products across the globe, join our mission to connect the world. **Your working environment:** The Engineering Center in Mobile, Alabama houses hundreds ofthe client's engineerswho assist in the design and development ofthe client'scommercial aircraft cabins, including aftermarket upgrades, reconfigurations and services of all product types across the globe. **Your challenges:** + Responsible for delivering fully qualified cabin equipment designs that meet the technical, weight, schedule, quality and cost targets of the Program. + Manage the General Requirements for Equipment & System Suppliers (GRESS) deliverables for the program, including determining the applicable GRESS items for Cabin equipment designs, maintaining the action item log, aggressively pursuing action holders to close actions, and providing complete transparency to stakeholders. 20% + Prepare and lead Initial Technical Coordination Meetings (ITCM), Preliminary Design Review (PDR), Critical Design Review (CDR) and major milestone meetings with Airline Customers, Suppliers all relevant stakeholders per development milestones. + Define/Validate Interfaces to the aircraft including development of customized modules installation requirements (including validation of both structural and system interfaces). Validate module interface points and update Customized Technical Specifications as appropriate + Guide and perform qualification and verification and validation of Cabin equipment designs including release of the Declaration of Design Performance (DDP). Ensure that the design is fully certified and all the necessary data for validation, test and certification delivered is in accordance with Program milestones. + Initiate, monitor and manage Supplier Improvements and Transformation Projects to drive performance and to ensure supplier's compliance tothe client's requirements and processes. Analyze Change Requests designs based on customer, manufacturing and/or design requirements. **Your boarding pass:** + Minimum BS degree in engineering or related field: + 6+ years of experience within the aviation industry with 3 years of relevant experience in aircraft cabin engineering and development process, and knowledge of associated design, certification and qualificationrequirements. + Excellent communication and negotiation skills. + Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and dynamic environment. + Ability to understand and mentor principles within assigned discipline. + Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical aircraft topics. + Ability to inter-relate with and motivate diverse teams. + Authorized to work in the US. **Physical Requirements:** + Onsite or remote: Onsite 100% + Vision: able to see and read computer screens and other electronic equipment with screens, able to read documents, reports and engineering drawings. + Hearing: able to participate in conversations in person and via teleconference or phone and to hear sounds on the production floor including safety warnings or alarms. + Speaking: able to speak in conversations and meetings, deliver information and participate incommunications. + Equipment Operation (personal computer, telephone, copies, fax machine, and related office equipment and using electronic identification card to enter building floors and internal doors): able to operate most office and personal electronic equipment and some tools including production tools such as hydraulic lifts. + Carrying: able to carry documents, tools, drawings, electronic equipment up to 30lbs/14kgs. + Lifting: able to lift documents, tools, drawings, electronic equipment up to 30lbs/14kgs. + Pushing / Pulling: able to push and pull small office furniture and some equipment and tools. + Sitting: able to sit for long periods of time in meetings, working on the computer. + Squatting / Kneeling: able to squat or kneel to retrieve or replace items stored on low shelving. + Standing: able to stand for discussions in offices or on the production floor. + Travel: able to travel independently and at short notice. + Walking (include routine walking such as to a shared printer to retrieve documents): able to walk through office and production areas including uneven surfaces. + Personal Protective Equipment required: Required PPE includes, but is not limited to, Safety Shoes, Safety Glasses, Hearing Protection, Respirators/Masks, and/or Protective Gloves as required by site and/or customer site Benefits offered to vary by the contract. Depending on your temporary assignment, benefits may include direct deposit, free career counseling services, 401(k), select paid holidays, short-term disability insurance, skills training, employee referral bonus, affordable medical coverage plan, and DailyPay (in some locations). For a full description of benefits available to you, be sure to talk with your recruiter. 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