Principal Electrical Load & Power Management

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Own aircraft electrical load analysis and the power budget, including flight phases, duty cycles, growth allowances, and margins.
• Manage and negotiate electrical power requirements across different aircraft systems.
• Define essential and emergency electrical buses, load categorisation, and load-shedding strategies.
• Develop power management and automatic reconfiguration logic.
• Ensure flight-critical systems can continue operating following loss of a power source or electrical bus.
• Support aircraft safety assessments, including electrical failure modes and continued safe flight and landing analysis.
• Characterise electrical loads for mission and medical equipment.
• Provide electrical power and energy requirements to the wider aircraft integration team.
• Define and support power quality and electrical load testing, including load-bank and integration testing.

Must-Have Requirements

• At least 10 years of experience in aircraft electrical systems engineering.
• At least 4 years of experience owning or maintaining aircraft electrical load analysis and power budgets.
• Strong experience with essential and emergency electrical architecture.
• Experience with load categorisation, load shedding, and power management on certified or safety-critical aircraft.
• Experience defining power management and reconfiguration logic and supporting its safety assessment.
• Experience with electrical power quality analysis and testing.
• Proven ability to manage electrical power budgets across multiple engineering disciplines.

Desirable Experience

• Experience on electric or hybrid-electric aircraft.
• Experience with EMS, medical, or mission equipment electrical loads.
• Experience with automatic electrical reconfiguration or power management software.
• Experience supporting electrical certification and compliance for load and emergency power systems.

Workplace

• The posting identifies the role as onsite in the United Arab Emirates.