Engineering Equipment Industrialisation Leader (m/f), Bremen

Airbus 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. Airbus champions innovative technologies and offers some of the world’s most fuel efficient and quiet aircraft. Airbus has sold over 13.800 aircraft to more than 360 customers worldwide. Airbus has achieved more than 8,000 deliveries since the first Airbus aircraft entered into service. Headquartered in Toulouse, France.

Tasks & accountabilities

• As an Engineering Equipments Industrialization Leader, you will bridge Design and Industrial aspects of equipment development for better and more reliable products from our suppliers.
• You will bring technology and manufacturing expertise, as well as suppliers and products knowledge, to ensure the manufacturability and quality of equipment & systems from industrial integration and operational point of views.
• You will be responsible for the Equipments Industrialization of products lines and technologies within the Engineering Systems Community.
• Internally, you will closely work with Systems Designers, Experts, Supply Chain, Quality and Industrial.
• Externally, you will be interfaced with Suppliers’ Engineering and Manufacturing.
• You will work from the preparation of supplier selection to in-service support, with a strong momentum on prevention by bringing the right experience and knowledge during developments and industrial changes.
• You will be a team member of the newly created “Equipments Industrialization” group, part of a transnational department within Engineering Systems.

You main tasks and accountabilities will include:

• Being responsible of assessment of manufacturability of the design during developments & changes: technical risks & opportunities analysis, participation to combined Design & Industrial reviews, challenge of design options and influence of suppliers’ design and manufacturing engineering
• Being responsible of manufacturing aspects before and during supplier selection: requirements for Call For Tender, supplier’s proposals reviews, risks & opportunities plan
• Supporting products’ industrialization surveillance with regards to manufacturing engineering: participation to assessments and industrial reviews, and eradication of quality flaws
• Supporting resolution of issues and contributing to recovery & industrial performance improvement initiatives
• Being responsible of developing knowledge inside manufacturing Engineering teams through cross-fertilization between products and programs.
• This role will involve travels to supplier’s facilities and Airbus sites; as such you must be able to travel accordingly (approx. twice a month).
• This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Required skills

• Degree in Engineering or similar
• Experience in production technologies and manufacturing processes
• Experience in industrialization
• Knowledge of systems design, including interfaces and integration principles
• Products knowledge
• Experience in audits/assessments
• Leadership skills, ability to interface with external suppliers and represent Airbus
• Negotiation level of English.