Engineering Intern

Join the Soundair Aviation Services Team
Since 1993, Soundair Aviation Services has been keeping aircraft flying with precision, reliability, and pride. What began with flight deck transparencies has grown to include galley inserts, lavatory components, oxygen systems, and more.

For over 30 years, airlines and MROs around the world have trusted our team to deliver quality repairs and fast turnaround times. That trust starts with our people—skilled, dedicated, and passionate about what they do.

At Soundair, we value teamwork, attention to detail, and open communication. We’re growing, innovating, and looking for people who want to do the same. Join us and help keep aviation moving forward.

The temporary Engineering Intern may assist both the Product Support Engineering Group (PSE) and/or the Repairs Engineering Group as needed. This role will expose the individual to a wide range of engineering skills in the aviation industry centered around creating/maintaining a TTE (Tool & Test Equipment) Equivalency program as well as developing Engineered Repairs to return aircraft parts to service on time, while ensuring safety and compliance, enhancing reliability, and delivering cost savings to airlines. The Engineering Intern has the responsibility and authority to perform other assigned tasks as needed.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Uses hand measurement tools and to help reverse engineer commercial aircraft parts.
• Fabricates test equipment using industry standards.
• Read and Interpret mechanical drawings and electrical schematics
• Generate TTE requisitions with the right information to ensure special tooling and equipment is defined, made (or purchased), and identified successfully.
• Write, substantiate, validate TTE Equivalencies. Initiate and update unit ETMLs and Test Data Sheets.
• Assist in Design, Development and Manufacture of TTE/CME solutions using mechanical, electrical, and analytical skills.
• Coordinate and communicate priorities with local production team and Product Support Engineering as needed.
• Ensure tooling are appropriately labeled, organized, stored, and accessible in the department. Find lost tooling; prevent duplicates and waste.
• Make sure broken or poorly performing tooling is remedied in a timely manner, before it becomes an emergency or a production delay.
• Follow status of Quantum steps, update status of tickets/records in Engineering Database as needed.
• Coordinate consumable material requirements with dept, and other shops as needed.
• Coordinate calibrated items requirements with CAL/QA, PSE, and other shops as needed.
• Assist with Corrective Action Requirements as necessary.
• Assist in 5S initiatives, and bonding of inactive tooling.
• Assist with document storage, filing, linking, cross-associating as needed.
• Other duties as assigned.

Other Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Technical Ability -- Be familiar or gain familiarity with 14 CFR 145 requirements and the test, repair and inspection methods, techniques, and practices applicable to the department.
• Interpersonal Skills -- Focuses on solving conflict, not blaming; Remains open to other's ideas and tries new things. Ability to maintain constructive relationships with subordinates, peers, and managers at all times.
• Planning/Organizing -- Prioritizes and plans work activities; Uses time efficiently; can multi-task and be able to change priorities as required by customer driven demands.
• Quantity -- Meets productivity standards as required; Completes work in a timely manner; Strives to increase productivity; Works quickly.
• Safety and Security -- Observes safety and security procedures; Determines appropriate action beyond guidelines; Reports potentially unsafe conditions; Uses equipment and materials properly.
• Adaptability -- Adapts to changes in the work environment.
• Attendance/Punctuality -- Is consistently at work and on time; Arrives at meetings at appointments on time.
• Dependability -- Follows instructions, responds to management direction; takes responsibility for own actions; Keeps commitments; Commits to long hours of work when necessary to reach goals; Completes tasks on time or notifies appropriate person with an alternate plan.
• Microsoft office.

Education / Experience Requirements:

• High School Certification or GED.
• 1-3 years of related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience is also a consideration.

• Actively in school for an engineering discipline or has completed engineering related courses.
• Drafting or computer aided design programing preferred.

Other Qualifications:

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Language Skills: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, reports, schematics, and documents. Ability to initiate and respond to issues and inquiries with shop personnel, engineering, QA, management, customers, vendors, and regulatory agencies using effective verbal, written, and software skills. Ability to write reports, analyses, and other documentation and instructions that conform to prescribed style and format.

Mathematical Skills: Ability to understand and calculate figures such as Ratios and percentages, ranges, scales, accuracies, proportions, area, circumference, and volume. Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry. Able to measure and calculate fine dimensions using a variety of hand tools.

Reasoning Ability: Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representatives of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Is occasionally required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl; and lift up to 25 pounds.
• Is frequently required to use hands and fingers to hold parts, measure and inspect.
• Is frequently required to talk or listen.
• Works in moderate noise levels.