Accountabilities:

The jobholder represents Engineering and Chief Engineering in A320 family Final Assembly Line and Wide Body (A330&A350) Completion in the Delivery Centre in Tianjin.

The main accountabilities are:

-to provide technical solutions to resolve non conformities(damage, deviation…), compatible with the planning of aircraft final assembly, testing, and delivery

-to support Operations for any disruption in manufacturing process, and delivery with technical justifications to customer

Main activities:

-Operational activities

The jobholder is in charge of:

-Analyzing Non Conformities discovered during aircraft assembly, testing and delivery. This usually requires to trouble shoot in order to understand the witnessed system behavior and to find the root cause.

-Providing assessment of acceptability of the Non Conformity, rework or replacement solution to Non Conformity, and assessment of acceptability of the rework or replacement

-Providing stress justification for typical structural defect and daily repair.

-Providing long term solution to recurrent Non Conformities, through the proposition of design or manufacturing improvements. The design change can be initiated by design query note, followed by new modification or drawing updates.

-Creating temporary aircraft definition (through technical note or special instructions) in order to support the operational tests

-Supporting delivery by providing technical justifications to customers

The jobholder acts on the complete primary and secondary aircraft structure (all ATA chapter linked to structure design like doors, windows, fuselage, wing, tail planes & pylons). The technical solutions are established for metallic and composite structure.

The jobholder supports assembly operations, testing and delivery from start of Production process until aircraft ferry flight from the site.

-Developmental activities

The jobholder needs to continuously develop his/her own competences with respect to technical and interpersonal skills.

Airbus processes mastery and application is key with respect to design privilege granted by airworthiness authorities.

Solutions proposed need to be consistent within the relevant MAP-Engineering Support organisation, and agreed with Design Organisation overall. The jobholder is part of the MAP-Engineering Support community acting in China, Europe and USA.

Outputs:

-Operational Outputs

The jobholder will deliver guidance for trouble shooting, engineering assessment on non-conformities, description of concessions, stress reports, and creation of special instruction, as required and in accordance with the lead time agreed with internal customers in production and delivery center

-Developmental Outputs

The jobholder will develop his/her own technical and interpersonal skills as well as mentoring his/her peers and providing guidance to production and quality with respect to standard operational instructions and trouble shooting.

-Education: Strong technical knowledge (Bachelor): Structure (repair) design, Mechanics, Metallic and/or Composite Design, Aeronautics, Well understanding of typical stress methodologies, Physics, Automatisms and Control, Programming

-Soft Skills: Rigorous, logical, organized, self-directed, self-confident, team player, constant learner, listener, customer focus, willingness and ability to act as mentor for newcomers

-Technical Skills: Technical background sufficient to understand and learn engineering technical documents and provide logical reasoning to solve problems

Experience: Good aeronautical background in Engineering or Maintenance

English: negotiation level

Special requirement: flexible for standby and overtime