Responsibilities:
IPT & Program Leadership:

- Lead the Flight Sciences IPT, ensuring alignment with overall aircraft development program objectives.
- Own technical delivery, schedule, cost, and quality for aerodynamics and loads domain.
- Coordinate across Structures, Flight Controls, Propulsion, and Avionics teams.
- Act as the primary interface with customers and internal stakeholders.

Aerodynamic Design & Analysis:

- Lead aerodynamic design and optimization of aircraft components including wings, fuselage, empennage, and nacelles.
- Oversee CFD simulations, wind tunnel data correlation, drag reduction, and performance improvement initiatives.
- Conduct performance analysis (range, climb, cruise efficiency) and high-lift systems assessment for take-off and landing performance.

Aero-Loads Development:

- Define and generate aero-loads across the flight envelope, including gust loads, maneuver loads, and ground-air loads interactions.
- Ensure proper integration with structural design and sizing teams.
- Develop certification load cases, loads envelopes, and critical conditions.

Flight Dynamics & Dynamic Behavior:

- Lead flight dynamics modeling and simulation, including stability and control analysis and handling qualities evaluation.
- Evaluate aircraft response to disturbances, gusts, turbulence, and dynamic behavior.
- Collaborate with Flight Control teams on control law development and aircraft response tuning.

Integration & Validation:

- Ensure integration of aerodynamics, loads, and dynamic behavior with overall aircraft design.
- Support wind tunnel testing, ground testing, validation, and flight test campaigns.
- Validate simulation models against test data.

Certification & Compliance:

- Ensure compliance with FAA, EASA, and DGCA certification requirements (CS/FAR 23/25/27 as applicable).




- Support certification deliverables including loads reports, stability and control reports, flight test plans, and analysis reports.
- Participate in PDR, CDR, and certification audits.

Risk & Performance Management:

- Identify and mitigate aerodynamic risks, loads exceedance risks, and stability and handling concerns.
- Ensure performance targets for fuel efficiency, payload-range capability, and flight envelope compliance are achieved.

Stakeholder & Customer Management:

- Act as technical focal point for the flight sciences domain.
- Present aerodynamic performance, loads data, and energetic analysis results.
- Support proposal development, RFQs, effort estimation, and planning.

Required Qualifications:

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering or Aeronautical Engineering.

Experience:

- 12-18+ years in the aerospace domain.
- Strong experience in aerodynamics, aero-loads, and flight dynamics.
- Experience in aircraft NPD programs is mandatory.
- Proven experience leading IPTs or cross-functional teams.

Technical Skills:
Core Expertise:

- Aerodynamics using CFD tools such as ANSYS Fluent and STAR-CCM+.
- Aero-loads generation tools and methodologies.
- Flight dynamics, stability and control analysis, and handling qualities.

Tools & Methods:

- MATLAB/Simulink.
- Flight simulation tools.
- Wind tunnel data analysis.
- MBSE tools such as Cameo and Rhapsody (preferred).

Standards & Knowledge:

- CS/FAR 23/25 certification standards.
- Understanding of aeroelasticity, flutter analysis, and gust response modeling.

Leadership & Soft Skills:

- Strong technical leadership and decision-making capability.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience working in onsite-offshore delivery models.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

📌 Flight Sciences - IPT Head (Canada)
🏢 Katalyst Healthcares & Life Sciences
📍 Canada