Hermeus is a venture-backed defense aviation company reclaiming the lost art of rapid iterative prototyping to build the fastest aircraft in the world today. By prioritizing relentless hardware iteration, we deliver high-speed systems at the pace of the modern battlefield. We work with the Department of War to provide the high-speed capabilities our nation and its allies need to maintain a durable, asymmetric advantage.
About The Role:
As an Airworthiness Manager youwill be responsible forplanning, negotiating, developing, and delivering the airworthiness artifacts necessary tofacilitateboth military and civil aviation approvals for developmental and production aircraft. The Airworthiness Manager will play a critical role in the development of the airworthiness strategy and execution. The Airworthiness Manager will own the certification process from cradle to grave enablingsuccessfulregulatory compliance and certification under both traditional and novel military and civil processes. The successful candidate willuse part 23, part 25, or MIL-HDBK 516 experience towork cross-functionally with engineering and external stakeholders to successfully implement and execute airworthiness approvals on aggressive timelines.
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Responsibilities:
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Lead the organization's airworthiness function, owning both the planning and execution of all airworthiness, compliance, and certification activities.
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Develop and execute airworthiness plans for aircraft development programs, including certification documentation, compliance activities, regulatory coordination, and certification reviews and approvals. This is a hands-on role requiring both strategic leadership and direct execution.
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Collaborate with engineering, manufacturing, test, and quality assurance teams to ensure that activitiesmeet or exceed regulatory standards.
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Communicate and manage airworthiness tasking, tracking, status, and schedule to shareholders, executive management, and internal teams.
Requirements:
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Bachelor's degree in STEM discipline [preferably in Engineering (Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical, Systems, or related field)].
Preferred Skills and Experience:
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Master’s degree in STEM discipline [preferably in Engineering (Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical, Systems, or related field)].
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$165,000 - $220,000 a year
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The compensation information provided is a general guideline only. Hermeus takes various factors into account, including, but not limited to, the position's scope and responsibilities, the candidate's professional background, education and training, essential skills, and market and business considerations, when presenting a job offer.
Compensation is only one part of our total rewards package. Hermeus offers competitive base pay and equity, generous parental leave, potential for year-end bonuses, and more!
• 100% employer-paid health care
• 401k & retirement plans
• Weekly paid office lunches
• Fully stocked breakrooms
• Stock options
• Paid Parental Leave
• Flexible PTO (exempt) and generous accrued PTO (non-exempt), plus 12 federal holidays off
U.S. EXPORT CONTROL COMPLIANCE STATUS
The person hired will have access to information and items subject to U.S. export controls, and therefore, must either be a “U.S. person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. § 120.62 or otherwise eligible for deemed export licensing. US persons include U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, lawful permanent residents (green card holders), and asylees and refugees with such status granted, not pending.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
Hermeus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions at Hermeus are based solely on merit, competence, and qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status.
