Project Specialist, Maint. Service Engineering

Virgin Galactic • Truth or Consequences, NM

7d • $81,650 - $124,600

About The Position

Virgin Galactic is seeking a Project Specialist, Maintenance Service Engineering to support the Flight Maintenance team and the development and fielding of next-generation Delta Class Spaceships and High Altitude Long Endurance Launch/Carrier Vehicles. Reporting to the Manager, Maintenance Service Engineering, this role helps ensure vehicles are designed, built, and supported for efficient maintenance and inspection. The position supports service-item definition and sustainment, service planning, maintainability improvements, maintenance technical publications, and service bill of material management in the 3DX environment. The work involves collaborating with maintenance, operations engineering, design groups, RMS teams, and internal and external customers to support fleet operations and mission reliability.

Requirements

• High school diploma and/or a combination of education and work experience.
• Valid FAA-approved Airframe and Powerplant (A&P) license.
• At least 8 years of aircraft maintenance or quality experience.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Proficient knowledge of engineering design software and general software, including Dassault 3DExperience, Enovia, Delmia, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook, MS Project, and MS Visio.
• Excellent planning and problem-solving skills, with the ability to resolve issues effectively and efficiently.
• Focus on timely execution of tasks and deliverables.
• Ability to seek diverse perspectives, help others succeed, and hold oneself and others accountable.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field.
• Experience with aviation MRO software.
• Experience with new aircraft vehicle production and/or deliveries.
• Project management training or accreditation.

Responsibilities

• Act as the maintenance department focal point for in-service Spaceship and Launch Vehicle service-item definition development and sustainment.
• Establish and manage service process plans, including required skill types and equipment, for publication into the maintenance execution system.
• Manage, review, prioritize, and incorporate data analytics feedback to improve service process planning for execution.
• Lead and collaborate on maintenance continuous-improvement initiatives by gathering feedback, documenting lessons learned, and integrating process enhancements into fleet operations.
• Drive vehicle maintainability improvements to support dispatch and mission-reliability objectives.
• Collaborate with internal and external customers to ensure equipment, tools, spares, facilities, utilities, and maintenance services support fleet operations.
• Review 3D model-based designs for human-factors maintainability and provide assessments to design groups to inform design solutions.
• Apply maintenance expertise to develop technical publication manuals for operational use.
• Author and contribute to MSG-3 maintenance task analysis for applicable standard numbering systems derived from 3DX-based models under RMS team direction.
• Develop and manage service bills of material (SBOMs) in the 3DX environment to support maintainability planning, scheduling, and documentation for flight vehicles.
• Engineer SBOM instance levels, including EBOM, MBOM, MPDs, technical publications, service bulletins, airworthiness directives, and maintenance task-card elements.
• Control as-maintained changes from the execution system of record into the SBOM architecture.
• Collaborate with operations engineering on design changes, provide maintainability input, and author process plans for executing engineering changes to Virgin Galactic standards.
• Author, develop, and manage maintenance task-card process plans in the software system.
• Convert maintenance process details into organized data sets that enable efficient planning, packaging, review, scheduling, and closeout.
• Perform other related duties and projects as business needs require and as directed by management.

Benefits

• Medical, financial, and other benefits, depending on the position offered.
• Other forms of pay, such as a bonus or long-term incentive, may be provided as part of the compensation package.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED