About the role
The CE will be involved throughout the Design Investigation including:
A. Project Definition in support of the Head of the Office of Airworthiness: (1) Supporting the Classification of changes to Design or repair as Major or Minor.
(2) Agree the Certification basis through identifying the Airworthiness Requirements This will include the determination if legacy / ’grandfather rights’ can be used.
(3) Agree the Means of Compliance including the Test Requirements.
(4) Approve the Test Plan.
(5) Endorse the project to move to the next phase.
b. Testing
(1) Compliance Engineer has to demonstrate testing to justify compliance, for example to gain confidence that a Test House has conducted the test appropriately or to deal with any issues that arise during the test that need interpretation on compliance. The level of involvement of the CE is to take into consideration the criticality of the system, maturity of the technology, type of testing etc.
c. Verification
• Compliance Engineer has to verify all compliance data..
• Supporting the Classification of changes to Design or repair as Major or Minor.
• Agree the Certification basis through identifying the Airworthiness Requirements
• Prepare the certification program ensuring compliance requirements
• Prepare test plan for compliance requirements