Keep Aviation Moving: Join a High-Impact Aftermarket Repair Engineering Team

PDS Tech Commercial is partnering with a leading organization in the aviation industry to hire an experienced Aftermarket Repair Engineer in Windsor Locks, CT. If you're passionate about engineering process improvement, metrology systems, and ensuring critical aerospace equipment remains operational and compliant, this is your opportunity to make a meaningful impact in a world-class Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) environment.

Position Details

Job Title: Aftermarket Repair Engineer

Job Type: Full-Time | Contract (12 Months)

Location: Windsor Locks, CT 06096

Schedule: Monday-Friday | First Shift (5/40 Schedule)

Pay Rate: $67.92 per hour

Make an Impact

In this engineering-focused role, you'll drive metrology process improvements and instrumentation readiness within production and test operations at an FAA Part 145 Repair Station. This is not a technician position. Instead, you'll serve as a key engineering resource responsible for strengthening measurement systems, improving calibration workflows, reducing metrology-driven downtime, and ensuring critical test equipment is available when needed.

Your work will directly support operational efficiency, product quality, regulatory compliance, and the reliability of aviation repair and overhaul activities.

What You'll Do

Lead Metrology Process Improvements

• Review, update, and standardize metrology procedures across dimensional, torque, electrical, pressure, flow, and temperature measurement systems.
• Develop controlled workflows for calibration, repair, replacement, and escalation processes.
• Establish best practices that improve instrumentation readiness and measurement reliability.

Drive Equipment Reliability and Readiness

• Analyze failure modes across mechanical, electrical, and thermal measurement systems.
• Implement process controls that minimize unplanned test rig and production downtime.
• Conduct lifecycle assessments and recommend equipment replacements, upgrades, and backup strategies.

Improve Performance Through Data and Metrics

• Develop and monitor key metrics related to calibration workloads, overdue gages, equipment health, and lifecycle conditions.
• Identify trends and opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Support organizational efforts to improve measurement system effectiveness and operational performance.

Collaborate Across Functions

• Partner with Metrology, Repair Engineering, and Operations teams to resolve systemic instrumentation and readiness issues.
• Serve as the technical focal point for SOOT dispositions.
• Coordinate cross-functional efforts to drive sustainable process improvements and equipment availability.

Required Qualifications

• Associate's, Bachelor's, or Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

• Demonstrated proficiency with multi-discipline metrology equipment, including:- Dimensional measurement and gaging tools

  • Torque and load measurement devices
  • Electrical measurement equipment such as multimeters, signal conditioners, and signal generators
  • Pressure, flow, and temperature instrumentation

• Strong understanding of:- Calibration workflows

  • Measurement capability
  • Uncertainty contributors
  • Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing (GD&T)

• Ability to troubleshoot measurement deviations across mechanical, electrical, and thermal systems.

• Experience developing, revising, and maintaining controlled technical procedures.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and process improvement skills.

• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with AS9110 MRO documentation and traceability requirements.

• Knowledge of ANSI/NCSL Z540.3 principles, including:- Measurement decision risk

  • Test Uncertainty Ratio (TUR) evaluation
  • Guardbanding methodologies

• Understanding of ISO/IEC 17025 requirements, including uncertainty analysis and method validation.

• Experience supporting aerospace manufacturing, maintenance, test-rig environments, or other highly regulated industries.

• Background working with complex measurement systems and mission-critical instrumentation.

Why Join Us?

At PDS Tech Commercial, we connect talented professionals with opportunities that influence the future of aerospace innovation. In this role, you'll contribute to critical aviation operations while working alongside experts dedicated to engineering excellence, safety, and continuous improvement.

What You'll Gain

• Competitive pay at $67.92 per hour.
• Opportunity to work within a leading aerospace MRO environment.
• High-visibility projects that directly impact operational readiness and efficiency.
• Exposure to advanced measurement technologies and engineering systems.
• Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams focused on innovation and problem-solving.
• Valuable experience in a highly regulated industry with strong career-growth potential.
• A culture that values technical expertise, continuous improvement, and professional development.

Apply Today

If you're an engineer who thrives on improving processes, optimizing measurement systems, and solving complex technical challenges, we want to hear from you.

**Join PDS Tech Commercial and help ensure the precision, reliability, and readiness of the systems that keep aviation moving. Apply today and bring your engineering expertise to a team where your impact will be felt every day.

This position requires use of information or access to facilities subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and/or Export Administration Regulations (EAR). These regulations may limit access of controlled technologies: 1) to U.S. Persons, including U.S. Citizens, lawful permanent residents, and other narrow categories including refugees and asylees, or 2) to certain foreign nationals that have received an export license. **

Pay Details: $67.92 per hour

Benefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, EAP program, commuter benefits and a 401K plan. Our benefit offerings provide employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. In addition, our associates may be eligible for paid leave including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law, as well as Holiday pay where applicable.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Military connected talent encouraged to apply

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• The California Fair Chance Act
• Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance
• Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers
• San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance

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You should be proficient in:

• GD&T
• AS9100 Experience
• Calibration
• Metrology Equipment