MRB​/Liaison Engineer; Design & Stress

Job Description

Airbus Commercial Aircraft is looking for MRB Engineers (Design & Stress) to join our Engineering department based in Kinston, North Carolina. In this multifaceted role, you will immerse yourself in an environment designed to rapidly advance your expertise in aircraft structure, design, and systems while serving as a key technical authority. You will support production concessions of complex aircraft structures, developing and documenting analysis to support high-quality solutions.

Your mission is to ensure absolute safety, efficiency, and regulatory compliance while balancing structural integrity with manufacturing reality.

Our Engineers have the privilege of working on complex, highly engineered machines and are involved at all stages of the aircraft life cycle, from product development to manufacturing and direct support to our airline customers. If you’re interested in designing, creating, and testing the present and future of Airbus products across the globe, join our mission to connect the world.

The Airbus Aerosystems Kinston facility sits at the forefront of aerospace manufacturing, specializing in the production of large, advanced composite aerostructures. Our team builds critical components for the state‑of‑the‑art Airbus A350 XWB, including the composite center fuselage and wing spar.

• Financial Rewards:
  Competitive base salary, incentive compensation which may include profit sharing schemes, retirement savings plan and the ability to participate in an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (“ESOP”)
• Work/Life Balance:
  Paid time off including personal time, holidays and a generous paid parental leave program.
• Health & Welfare:
  Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical (traditional and high‐deductible health plans), prescription, dental, vision, life, disability, Employee Assistance Plan (“EAP”) and other supplemental benefit coverages.
• Individual Development:
  Upskilling and development opportunities through our global Leadership University, including unlimited access to 10,000+ e‑learning courses focusing on ways to develop your employability, certifications, career path as well as the opportunity to participate in accelerated development programmes and both national and international mobility.

• Determine design solutions for manufacturing non‑conformities, airframe repairs and reworks, and modifications to the aircraft definition and assess design deviations or non‑conformances for metallic, composite and hybrid structures.
• Perform design efforts and/or stress analysis for both metallic and non‑metallic parts.
• Methods include the use of multiple applications to research aircraft configurations and develop efficient solutions to satisfy airworthiness requirements.
• Ensuring the safety, efficiency, and regulatory compliance while adhering to the terms of Ensure appropriate Airbus methods, processes and procedures are followed. For Stress position, this includes performing stress calculations for structure to assess the design solution.
• Liaise with and support stakeholders such as Design, Stress, Manufacturing, Quality and other Airbus departments as necessary to come up with optimum solutions and ensure Stress requirements are fully integrated.
• Develop and maintain component / aircraft familiarity, to ensure prompt response to build.
• Develop towards and maintain Technical Signature Delegation for nonconformances and concessions for primary and secondary aircraft structures.
• Check and Approve / Pre‑approve design solution or stress justification for non‑conformity or modification of the concession.

• Bachelor of Science (BS) Degree in Engineering (Aero, Civil, or Mechanical) with a strong curriculum emphasis on structural design and analysis, and/or mechanics of materials.
• At least 5 years of experience analyzing and/or designing primary airframe structures.
• Broad range of standard hand and computer methods. (e.g. ISAMI, GFEM, DFEM, CATIA, etc.) + MRB experience.
• Experience in composite aircraft structure (airframe)
• Strong computer background, including MS Office application experience (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint)…