Senior Structures Engineer

About Sun Country Airlines

We're not your average airline. We're agile, resilient, and full of unique opportunity. Here, you can grow as part of an ambitious team that safely and collectively supports each other, our travelers, and our community. Together, we're making travel more attainable. With more than 40 years of Minnesota roots, we're a unique hybrid low-cost carrier offering diverse services including scheduled flights to destinations across the U.S., Canada, Central America, and the Caribbean, as well as charter and cargo operations around the world. At Sun Country, you'll be part of a growing airline, and an enthusiastic team focused on connecting our community with their favorite people and places.

Sun Country Airlines provides the resources and support our employees need to succeed. Besides working at a exciting and growing company, as a Senior Structures Engineer you'll enjoy these benefits and more:

• Comprehensive benefit package including dental and vision
• PPO and high deductible health plans
• Health savings account and Flexible Spending Account
• Starting day one free standby and discounted travel privileges for employees, family, & friends
• 401(k) match
• Paid Time Off
• Paid holidays
• Life and AD&D Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program including counseling for employees and their family
• Fitness incentive and Stop Smoking Support

Senior Structures Engineer Overview:

The Senior Structures Engineer is responsible for establishing technical programs and managing all day-to-day technical issues related to aircraft structures. This position has primary job responsibility for the technical aspects of Maintenance Engineering activity based upon Safety, FAA Regulations, Reliability, and cost of ownership issues.

Essential Roles and Responsibilities:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Identify and assign all Engineering Task Cards/Authorizations to address structural repairs and alterations.
• Review and disposition structural Airworthiness Directives, Service Bulletins, Service Letters, etc.
• Serve as a point of contact for vendors on technical issues relating aircraft structures, and the establishment of procedures for coordinating and resolving technical issues with vendors.
• Provide remote and on-site structures engineering assistance to support airline maintenance personnel with maintenance activity.
• Provide after-hours engineering support for problems encountered during airline maintenance activities and line operations.
• Conduct Structural Repair Record reviews for corrosion reporting.
• Develop and maintain aircraft fuselage repair/alteration process and procedures to include fatigue critical baseline structure.
• Develop and maintain a tail number specific repair and alteration file.
• Conduct all tasks in a safe and efficient manner complying with all local, state, and federal safety and health regulatory requirements, programmatic standards, and with any internal policies and procedures identified by Sun Country Airlines.
• Any other duties assigned by management

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience plus ten years of related experience
• At least 5 years of previous airline experience
• Proven engineering, computer, and technical knowledge experience
• Excellent at articulating complex information to various audiences
• Exceptional mathematical skills
• Ability to apply principles of logic and scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems

Preferred Qualifications:

• FAA Designated Engineering Representative (DER) designation
• Previous structures engineering experience with 737 aircraft
• Minimum of two (2) years of experience in a 121 or 135 airline engineering environment
• Previous Damage Tolerance Evaluation/Analysis Experience

Compensation:

$125,000.00-140,000.00. This is the base compensation hiring range for this role.

Classification:

Full-time, Exempt

Working Location:

Onsite, Minneapolis, MN

Supervisory Responsibility:

None

Work Environment:

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands or finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Other Duties:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

AAP/EEO Statement:

It is the policy of Sun Country Airlines to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

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