Staff Field Services Engineer, Structures (R5259)

Own technical evaluation of V-BAT airframe, structural, mechanical, and repair-related sustainment issues across the fielded fleet.

Assess field-reported structural damage, wear, cracking, deformation, corrosion, impact damage, fatigue concerns, hard landing effects, handling damage, and operational wear.

Evaluate structural findings from field returns, depot inspections, mishaps, maintenance events, manufacturing escapes, and recurring fleet issues.

Provide engineering recommendations for repair, rework, use-as-is, replacement, inspection, retrofit, or escalation based on technical risk and fleet impact.

Support Material Review Board activity by providing structural engineering input for nonconforming airframe, mechanical, composite, metallic, bonded, or fastened assemblies.

Develop, review, or approve structural repair instructions, inspection criteria, service guidance, and field or depot repair procedures.

Partner with Fleet Support, Quality, Manufacturing Engineering, Product Engineering, Sustainment Engineering, and Operations to resolve structural issues impacting readiness or customer support.

Support root cause investigations for structural failures, recurring mechanical issues, fatigue-related findings, or field-reported damage trends.

Assess whether structural issues affect aircraft safety, airworthiness, mission readiness, configuration, service life, maintainability, or customer operations.

Provide technical input to retrofit plans, design improvements, service bulletins, maintenance releases, and fleet-wide inspection or repair campaigns.

Ensure structural repairs, deviations, and design or configuration changes are documented and coordinated through appropriate configuration control and engineering change processes.

Review drawings, models, specifications, inspection results, test data, repair records, and field evidence to support technical dispositions.

Identify recurring structural or mechanical issues that require corrective action, design improvement, maintenance procedure updates, or fleet-level mitigation.

Support development of repair limits, inspection intervals, allowable damage criteria, and practical field maintenance guidance where appropriate.

Coordinate with manufacturing and depot teams to ensure repair methods are executable, repeatable, inspectable, and aligned with engineering intent.

Provide timely technical guidance to support urgent field, depot, or customer-impacting sustainment issues.

Support X-BAT lessons learned where V-BAT structural sustainment experience can inform future sustainment, design-for-maintainability, repairability, and lifecycle planning.