Ground Support Engineer

• Expand your network within the aeronautical industry.
• Meet our people working with passion and determination to make the world a more connected, safer and smarter place.
• Be part of our diversity and teamwork culture that propel us to accomplish the extraordinary - on the ground, in the sky and in space.

ARE YOU INTERESTED? APPLY AND MAKE IT FLY!

WHY SHOULD YOU APPLY?

AIRBUS HELICOPTERS: GROW WITH US - We offer more than a job; we offer a community. Immerse yourself in a young, collaborative environment that feels like family. As a strategic Center of Excellence, we are a global leader in helicopter production, offering you endless potential to grow alongside our major projects.

Bring your ideas to a dynamic, modern ecosystem and help us build the next generation of aerospace solutions.

• Elaborate, optimize and communicate flight tests planning.
• Prepare and manage flight tests dispatch. Ensure availability of flight tests documentation (including on board and regulatory flight authorizations).
• Follow-up tests execution to support maturity and safety.
• Prepare and coordinate all the aspects of a test campaign.
• Operate test means for flight tests (telemetry, radio,...).
• Screen and optimize test requests, screen and optimize planning, support readiness for test execution in close relation with stakeholders, follow-up flight tests related certification documentation.
• Test preparation:
  • Elaborating, optimizing, and communicating planning of ground and flight test activities on prototype and series helicopters in accordance with the Test Coordinator/Test Squad Leader.
  • Ensuring the consolidation of all testing activities on aircraft and the involvement of all stakeholders inside and outside the Flight Test Department.
  • Screening and optimizing ground and flight test specifications/orders and supporting feasibility investigations regarding necessary tools, equipment as well as testing infrastructure in general.
  • Preparing flight test campaigns on different locations / areas, mainly in Europe. Supporting the Test Coordinator on negotiation of terms and conditions as well as costs for establishing.
  • Supporting prototype shop during preparation of lay-ups.
  • Supporting readiness for test performance in close relation with all stakeholders:
    • Ensuring that the right test configuration of prototype and series test helicopters is established and documented well (helicopter, test equipment, flight test instrumentation) for each test purpose.
    • Issuing appropriate documentation for the flight clearance approval.
    • Ensure availability of flight tests documentation (including on board and regulatory flight authorizations).
• Test execution:
  • Contributing to all relevant activities during the testing phases to ensure the test schedule.
  • Supporting on-site and off-site test campaigns on demand / when necessary: Supporting ground and flight test operations.
  • Potentially operating test means for flight tests, testing observation by telemetry on ground during critical test flights.
  • As member of the extended Flight Test Integrated Team, being the interface towards Flight Test Department internal departments like data analyses, flight test instrumentation and data reduction.
• Test reporting:
  • Supporting on issuing ground and flight test reports.
  • Coordinating delivery of certification test documentation.
  • Managing administrative tasks with regards to flight test activities (statistics on flight hour efforts, failures, reports and documentation).

LIFE IN ALBACETE: QUALITY & CONVENIENCE - Forget long commutes. Albacete offers you the great advantage of a "15-minute city": safe, accessible, comfortable and perfectly connected. Enjoy a premium standard of living at a competitive cost, ensuring you have the perfect balance between your career and your personal life.

Permanent

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