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Flight Control Systems (FCS)- IPT Head
Katalyst Healthcares & Life Sciences
🇨🇦 Canada
On-site
1 month ago
- SAS
- FMEA
- Change Management
- MATLAB
- MBSE
- Cameo
- Teamcenter
1 month ago
- Lead the Flight Control Systems (FCS) IPT and ensure alignment with aircraft program milestones.
- Own scope, schedule, cost, quality, and technical delivery of FCS programs.
- Coordinate with Aerodynamics, Structures, Avionics, Software, and V&V teams.
Serve as the primary technical interface with customers and stakeholders. - Define FCS architecture including fly-by-wire/fly-by-light systems, actuation systems, and sensors.
- Lead control law development, stability and control analysis, flight dynamics modeling, gain scheduling, and redundancy management.
- Ensure compliance with ARP4754A and ARP4761 standards.
- Develop and manage System Requirement Documents (SRD), control laws, simulation models, and Interface Control Documents (ICD).
- Lead MIL, SIL, and HIL integration activities and oversee ground testing, iron bird testing, and flight test support.
- Ensure seamless integration with avionics systems, actuation systems, and cockpit interfaces.
- Lead certification efforts in accordance with FAA, EASA, and DGCA regulations.
- Ensure compliance with DO-178C and DO-254 standards.
- Manage certification deliverables including PSAC, PHAC, SAS, safety assessments, and compliance reports.
- Interface with certification authorities, DERs, and ARs.
- Conduct safety analyses including FHA, FMEA, and FTA.
- Drive fail-safe, fail-operational, and fault-tolerant flight control system designs.
- Present technical solutions, performance metrics, risks, and mitigation plans to stakeholders.
- Support RFQs, proposals, effort estimation, and technical reviews.
- Ensure adherence to configuration control and change management processes.
- Identify and mitigate technical and integration risks while managing dependencies across IPTs.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Control Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Electrical Engineering.
- 12-18+ years of experience in the aerospace domain.
- Strong experience in flight control system development and aircraft NPD programs.
- Proven experience leading cross-functional engineering teams or IPTs.
- Strong expertise in Flight Dynamics & Control Theory.
- Control Law Design, Simulation, and Fly-by-Wire Architectures.
- Hands-on experience with MATLAB/Simulink and flight simulation environments.
- Familiarity with MBSE tools such as Cameo and Rhapsody.
- Knowledge of ARINC/AFDX interfaces, sensors, and actuation systems.
- Strong technical leadership and program ownership.
- Effective stakeholder and customer communication skills.
- Experience managing onsite-offshore delivery teams.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.
- Experience with eVTOL, UAV, or Advanced Air Mobility programs.
- Exposure to Digital Twins, Model-Based Design, and Autonomous Flight Control Systems.
- Familiarity with PLM tools such as 3DX and Teamcenter.
- Certified FCS architecture and control laws.
- Integrated and validated flight control system.
- Certification documentation, compliance matrix, and review artifacts.
- On-time IPT deliverables aligned with program milestones.
- Reports to: Chief Engineer / Program Manager.
- Leads: Flight Control Systems IPT (Control, Systems, Integration, V&V, and Certification Engineers).
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