Maintenance Engineer

Ready to change the world?

We are reinventing how products are delivered around the world by unlocking the path not yet traveled. Our company was founded in 2015 and is backed by Silicon Valley’s most prominent VCs, including YCombinator, Lightspeed, and Icon Ventures. Volansi provides fast on-demand aerial delivery service for time-critical shipments over long ranges. We build and operate long-range, high-payload drones for commercial, defense, and humanitarian applications. Leveraging drone technology as a transportation method, we help our customers gain control of their supply chain and save millions of dollars on downtime and inventory costs.

Our work came from the immediate need for critical delivery of parts to drastically reduce downtime for an automotive company. From this idea, our founders have scaled the company into a team of highly skilled and motivated individuals to serve critical delivery markets.

Interested?

Volansi is seeking a maintenance engineer to lead and coordinate the “after-sales services” and in particular “maintenance” activities, and to support the ground crew. Candidates must have a strong technical background in certified aircraft or drone manufacturing. Candidates should be well versed in all stages of design and production to maintenance procedure and measures. Role will require monitoring fault issues, providing support for root cause and corrective/preventative actions, providing technical liaison support related to maintenance engineering matters, auditing program and processes for conformance to requirements, and working closely with customers to ensure satisfaction of customers. Candidates should expect a startup culture, which values creative problem solving, open communication, team working, and a flat hierarchy, to provide the best product for the customers in a lean and swift fashion.

What you will do:

• Assure optimization of the Maintenance Organization structure
• Analysis of repetitive parts and systems failures
• Estimation of maintenance costs and evaluation of alternatives
• Forecasting of spare parts
• Assessing the needs for equipment replacements and establish replacement programs when due
• Application of scheduling and project management principles to replacement programs
• Assessing required maintenance tools and skills required for efficient maintenance of equipment
• Assessing required skills for maintenance personnel
• Assessing and reporting safety hazards associated with maintenance of batteries
• Define and update maintenance requirements for UAV products, based on the aerospace standards and engineering best practices, in order to minimize maintenance
• Collaborate with Engineering, Manufacturing, SCM, Program Management, suppliers, and customer to ensure products developed are maintainable during their life cycles with minimum shutdowns or cost
• Educate technicians to regular maintenance activities
• Develop and prepare documents to meet the requirements of maintenance audits
• Plan for and implement FAA certified maintenance procedures
• Contribute to the overall operational output of the company
• Identify, analyze, implement, coordinate, and monitor program improvements for maintenance issues impacting customer operations
• Develop projects and work methods for preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, or corrective maintenance
• Provide consistent technical review and evaluation for maintenance issues related to acquisition/supply
• Conduct special projects/studies involving persistent, widespread systemic and/or critical maintenance related problems
• Prepares reports, business correspondence and procedure manuals

Required:

• BS or MS degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, Maintenance or Industrial Engineering and substantial hands-on maintenance experience
• Working experience with CAD software such as SolidWorks
• Working experience with FAA “maintenance requirements”
• Working knowledge with computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) tools
• Working experience with preventive maintenance and predictive maintenance
• Experiences with Scheduling/Planning
• A strong understanding of many of the core disciplines of engineering involved in VTOL aircraft
• Deep knowledge and expertise of maintenance engineering disciplines
• Experience in a certified aircraft production operation as a maintenance engineer
• Ability to interpret drawings and specifications
• Capable of performing root cause analysis and identifying solutions to complex problems
• Excellent communication, organizational and presentation skills to effectively communicate and interact with Technical Operations, Manufacturing, and all other stakeholders
• Excellent team spirit and ability to work independently
• Attention to detail
• Experience in developing process documentation
• Ability to travel to attend meetings with engineers, customers and suppliers
• Must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident (holding a Green Card)

Desired:

• Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineer (LAME)
• Flight related hobbies and interests, such as a private pilot’s license, aircraft homebuilding, RC flying and competing, etc.
• Experience in managing a 5-10-person team