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Manager, AW609 Avionic Systems - US

Leonardo Helicopters

United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

3050 Red Lion Road (Show on map)

Jun 27, 2025

Job Title: Manager, AW609 Avionic Systems - US

Department: Engineering

Reports to: Double reporting. Local: Senior Manager, Avionic Systems USA Products. Global: Tiltrotor Products System Engineering

Location(s): Philadelphia, PA, with less than 20% domestic and international travel

Summary of Position: (Brief description of overall responsibilities and function)

Responsible for ensuring all technical aspects of AW609 Avionics system and certification. This includes Avionics systems equipment level, Systems Level and Aircraft Level troubleshooting, testing and certification.

Manage and develop the AW609 Avionics Team including performance evaluations, support career growth and learning objectives, and provide the encouragement and guidance to ensure their success.
Deliver, manage, and execute System Specific Certification Plans (SSCPs) including review, integration, and approval of designs, plans/analyses/test results to show compliance at system, component, and discipline level and to satisfy AW609 program objectives.
Understand, review, and endorse how the design solution and the process satisfy the Airframe & Structural Systems requirements when considered at integration level.
Manage project requirements & provide periodic project statuses and metrics to Senior Engineering and Program Leadership.
Act as primary interface with the FAA as the type design authority for these disciplines with responsibility for showing compliance.
Work with local and globally located colleagues to develop plans (cost and schedule) to achieve program goals. Utilize EVMS data to identify and mitigate critical path activities.
Support industrialization, continued airworthiness, customer support/training, sales & marketing, and post-TC development activities for responsible system or discipline.
Proactively manage changes in the design, system, and project scope, identify system critical paths and install contingency and mitigation plans as required.
Provide strong leadership skills to direct and define clear objectives for system and/or disciplines that are aligned with internal and external program requirements.

2. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: (Specifically describe the essential duties and responsibilities with estimated percentage of time that is spent on each).

	Duties and Responsibilities:	% Time
1.	Act as Primary FAA interface with the responsibility to ensure design compliance, maintaining close interaction with airworthiness authorities, including authorities' representatives (FAA) and delegates (DER), and involving day-by-day technical exchanges, recurring meetings and reviews.	20
2.	Support the technical certification activities for the AW609 Avionics System, planning and execution through demonstration of design compliance with applicable rules, including definition of System Certification Plan, Certification Test Plans, Certification Test Reports and Issue Papers.	10
3.	Support activities for equipment request of conformity and qualification test setup. Support discussions and review for equipment certification process, including DO-178 SW and DO 254 HW SOI Process Assurance with authorities. Support AW609 avionics testing and analysis, necessary to show compliance with certification rules consistent with program priorities and departmental best practices.	10
4.	Coordinate the substantiation of type design documentation required to meet the approved certification basis, providing expertise for resolution of non-compliance, support releasing of test plans/reports in accordance to program milestones.	15
5.	Support onsite prototypes technical activities and manufacturing line acting as Engineering POC leading the AWPC avionics specialists in US. Work closely with the technical disciplines Chief Projects of the main LH Engineering Cross-Geo Organization in Italy	25
6.	Management of people within associated teams, approving timesheets/holiday/sickness, assessing performance of the team to develop future careers and challenging behaviors to correct issues of under-performance. This role also requires mentoring, coaching, and guidance of engineers. Ensure continuous improvement of the team and department.	10
7.	Definition of department budgets, raising and monitoring of budget change requests, assessment of performance against engineering milestones and KPI's.	5
8.	Department capacity planning, liaison with external resource providers to manage the recruitment/release of sub-contract resources required to discharge the workload.	5
	TOTAL:	100%

Qualifications for Position:

A. Education

BS degree in Electrical, Electronics or Aerospace Engineering;

B. Experience

1. Minimum 10 years of experience participating in transport-category certification programs (Part 27, Part 25 and/or Part29) including Five+ years of technical experience involved in design, test, and analysis of avionics and electrical components and systems for developmental aircraft including cockpit integration expertise.

2. Project Management experience required.

C. Competencies & Attributes

1.	Strong understanding of avionics equipment and system integration and testing to show compliance to system and certification requirements of safety critical systems. Understanding and practical experience in environmental qualification practices i.a.w. DO-160 standards. Strong understanding of avionics test bench methods. Preferably understanding of software development Assurance methods i.a.w. DO-178 standards.
2.	Practical experience with FAA compliance and certification processes.
3.	Strong analytical and design skills. Proven experience to create plans, communicate them, and execute them efficiently across a diverse and complex organization. EVMS experience preferred.
4.	Strong communication and presentation skills, ability to effectively communicate to all levels of the organization, ability to negotiate win-win solutions in the presence of conflict and ambiguity, and ability to be a persuasive advocate to internal and external customers; operating in a Cross-Geo environment with the need to travel among the facilities of LH Engineering organization and its major stakeholder between Europe and US.
5.	High integrity and technical expertise as necessary to be a primary Avionics interface with certification authorities.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Vet/Disability