Airworthiness Intern Melbourne FL

At Northrop Grumman, employees work on revolutionary systems that affect people's lives around the world today and for generations to come. The company has a long history of pioneering work, from the first transatlantic flight to stealth bombers and the moon landing. Its culture values intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work.

Northrop Grumman is seeking Airworthiness Engineers to join the Aeronautics Systems Intern Program. This position is located in Melbourne, FL.

The selected candidate will support certification efforts on various air vehicle platforms. You will help turn customer airworthiness certification objectives into system solutions that meet program needs throughout the product lifecycle, including flight releases, type certification, continued airworthiness and airspace integration operations.

As an intern, you will take part in a summer internship program to build skills across several engineering specializations. Typical work may include:

• Supporting technical airworthiness planning and verification, including developing and negotiating airworthiness plans, bases of certification, means of compliance and other certification activities for complex systems with integrated product teams and customer counterparts.
• Reviewing and coordinating with other airworthiness engineers and internal engineering disciplines across design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance and disposal.
• Performing functional and process analyses, requirements allocation and definition studies to turn customer requirements into criteria and derived requirements.
• Maintaining type design data and airworthiness evidence for a military type certification and continued airworthiness of air systems, as part of the technical airworthiness staff at a system design responsible company.

This role requires up to 10% travel.