Lead F&DT Engineer
Airbus, an EADS Company headquartered in Toulouse, France, is a leading aircraft manufacturer with the most modern and comprehensive family of airliners on the market, ranging in capacity from 100 to more than 500 seats.
We have a constant requirement for professional Engineers at all levels within the disciplines of Design, Analysis and Integration both at Systems and Component level. We would invite you to visit our website: www.airbus.com/work.
Airbus in the UK is responsible for the design, manufacture and assembly of all wings for the Airbus family of aircraft. Airbus in the UK has a workforce of around 12,000 people based at two sites; Broughton in Flintshire, North Wales and Filton in Bristol. Broughton has 6,500 employees and at Filton there are 5,500. More than 400 UK companies supply to Airbus and 100,000 jobs in the UK are secured by Airbus work.
A vacancy has arisen for a Lead FDT Engineer to be based on the Filton site (Bristol), UK.
The successful applicant will report to the Engineering Team Leader and the role involves the analysis of aircraft structure using the standard fatigue and crack growth methods to develop design solutions within the Single Aisle Wing Structures Sharklet team in Airbus UK.
The engineer will carry out fatigue, crack growth and residual strength calculations to assess design solutions using standard hand and computer methods and will be expected to liaise with the Methods and Data group in order to ensure that methods, assumptions, data and procedures reflect on-going developments. In this position the engineer will support on-going local improvement initiatives to increase team efficiency through methods and process improvements. The role will require a strong focus upon deliverables and timescales to support our external and internal customers.
As the successful candidate your principle activities will include:-
- FDT certification activities.
- Justification for New weight variants.
- Support to Production.
- Support to Certification / Airworthiness activities.
- Support to/Attend the Maintenance Review Board (MRB).
- Attend/Support the Structures Task Group (STG) (involving travel to Toulouse, Hamburg etc).
- Support to Sharklet task management activities (level 4 task owner/lead engineer).
- Support Chief Engineers Office in Product Development Tasks.
- Assist the Chief of FDT (Single Aisle Sharklet) in team technical development.
- Assist the Chief of FDT (Single Aisle Sharklet) with managing delegated signatures to the supply chain.
As the successful candidate you will be able to demonstrate the following skills:-
- A minimum of 5 years working as an engineer, preferably in the aircraft industry, involved in fatigue and crack growth analysis of metallic structures using a broad range of standard hand and computer methods is desired.
- In addition, an understanding of the fundamental method of analysis for fatigue and crack growth and an ability to develop these methods would be expected. Engineers would also be expected to have an ability to assess structural analysis problems.
- Some knowledge of the application of FE analysis and an understanding of aircraft production methods and processes would be beneficial.
- Experience of PC and mainframe computer systems would be expected.
- A team player with a high regard for internal and external customers, whilst maintaining aircraft integrity as the over-riding principle is expected.
- In addition, an ability to lead a team of engineers would be expected.