A320 Airframe Design Engineer

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Airbus Commercial Aircraft is looking for an Airframe Design Engineer to join our Engineering department based in Mobile, AL.

Our Engineers at the Airbus U.S. Manufacturing facility take our aircraft from concept to customer delivery – working with production teams on every aspect of assembly from managing technical information, quality control, maintenance tasks and health & safety – along flowlines and flight lines. Join our team and watch our aircraft come to life.

Nearby on ‘Airbus Way’ you will find the Airbus U.S. Manufacturing Facility for commercial aircraft. Opened at the Mobile Aeroplex at Brookley in 2015, the facility produces A320 Family aircraft and added a second product line for the A220 in 2019. The facility, which strengthens the U.S. aerospace industry, is part of Airbus’ strategy to enhance its global competitiveness by meeting the growing needs of its customers in the United States and beyond.

• 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 programs and both national and international mobility.

At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and accessibly. Wherever possible, we support flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

• Accountability for the given approved repair, rework and troubleshooting instruction as well as for design update solutions in front of the corresponding design/stress office and authorities (EASA/FAA).

• Creation / approval / authorization (release) of technical solutions including structure justification reports for repairs / reworks or design updates. Standard repairs are approved autonomously, major repairs if required with the support of the Airbus Engineering departments (design, stress, fatigue, aerodynamics, material etc.) or other transnational A320 Family MAP Engineering teams.

• Representing and acting on behalf of the Chief Engineering and the design offices of AIRBUS (by delegation) as well as design to build suppliers.

• The jobholder acts as an interface between the A320 Family Chief Engineer/ Design office and the Manufacturing/ Quality assurance (Operations).

• To define technical solutions during NC treatment for metallic and composite structure comprising the complete primary / secondary aircraft structure (all Airframe ATA chapters linked to structures design).

• Creation, approval and monitoring of design corrective actions / improvements and preventive measures (launch of new modifications, drawing updates, design query notes) driving product improvements or non-conformity eradication.

• Provide engineering support to the FAL US (and to remote A320 Family FALs) during the complete manufacturing process from the delivery of the sections, FAL and flight Line activities, up to the aircraft ferry flight in all structure related items including engineering presentations in front of the customers (internal and external).

• Creation,…