Frederick Clayton
Brooksville,Florida
Summary
Planning Engineer and Turbine Mechanic dedicated to enhancing turbofan engine reliability and safety. Analyzes technical data to recommend critical maintenance actions, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and optimizing workflows through cross-functional collaboration, resulting in improved shop efficiency and operational integrity.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Planning Engineer
Pem-Air Turbine Services
Brooksville, FL
01.2026 - Current
- Analyze post-inspection findings and technical data to recommend critical workscope additions, enhancing operational reliability and engine safety.
- Develop and refine internal workscope documents by translating customer-provided maintenance requests and applicable Service Bulletins (SBs), maintaining strict alignment with OEM guidelines and regulatory standards.
- Tracked and analyzed regulatory and technical updates—including Airworthiness Directives (ADs) and SB revisions—to maintain airworthiness and enhance shop efficiency.
- Collaborate directly with Product and Process Engineering teams to drive continuous improvement in engine repair, component overhaul, and shop floor operational procedures.
- Ensured compliance with customer maintenance programs by incorporating operator-specific requirements into Pem-Air's workscope and engineering documentation.
Turbine Mechanic
Pem-Air Turbine Services
Brooksville, FL
01.2019 - 01.2026
- Performed comprehensive inspection, maintenance, repair, and overhaul of major commercial turbofan engines, including GE CF6 Series, CFM56, and Pratt & Whitney PW4000 lines.
- Conducted routine and heavy maintenance checks, including complex borescope inspections, hot section overhauls, fan blade repairs, and compressor wash procedures, enhancing engine performance and reliability.
- Executed precision component replacement, dynamic balancing, and alignment, ensuring compliance with manufacturer specifications, FAA/EASA regulations, and company safety standards to uphold operational integrity.
- Maintained detailed records of maintenance activities, part traceability, and inspection results, supporting quality assurance standards and facilitating regulatory compliance.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Engineering
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Worldwide12-2025
Skills
- Regulatory compliance
- Regulatory updates
- Safety regulations
- Technical writing
- Data analysis
- Problem identification
- Project management
- Safety management
- Team collaboration
ENGINEERING & TECHNICAL PROJECTS
- Autonomous Ground Vehicle Control Architecture, Fall 2025, Engineered a hybrid autonomous control architecture utilizing Pure Pursuit geometric path tracking and adaptive lookahead logic. Modeled dynamic vehicle response and visualized real-time telemetry metrics using MATLAB and Simulink.
- Two-Stage Solid Propellant Launch Vehicle Design, Spring 2021, Served as cognizant engineer leading complete technical reporting and project management for a small-lift launch vehicle designed to deliver payloads to low-Earth orbit (LEO).
- UAV Design Project, Spring 2025, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Worldwide As a group, design a fixed-wing airplane that will be used by the National Park Service to monitor and observe the behavior of bison in one of the parks. Energy Project
- Energy Generation Project, Spring 2025, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Worldwide Work as a team to write a proposal to discuss how various sources of energy can be transformed into electrical power and calculate how much power can be generated by using RETScreen software.
Timeline
Planning Engineer
Pem-Air Turbine Services
01.2026 - Current
Turbine Mechanic
Pem-Air Turbine Services
01.2019 - 01.2026
Bachelor of Science - Engineering
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University