HC Ground Tests & Support

About the Role

You will join the “Ground Tests & Support” department within the Test Center and you will be part of the Ground Test Team. The “Ground Tests & Support” department performs testing activities on aircraft on ground, and organizes within the Flight Integrated Team all the ground and flight tests.

Within this Department, the Ground Test Team performs development, certification and qualification testing activities on aircraft on ground. It comprises the domains of the Avionics/Vehicle System, the Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC), the Radio, the Lighting, the Vibration/Acoustics and also the Flight Test Operational Support.

Our main goals are to ensure:

• maturity for flight tests by making the bridge with Design and avionics/vehicle rigs
• readiness of the prototype or production aircraft under test by supporting the Flight Test Engineer, Lead-Flight Test Engineer and Project Experimental Test Pilot who conduct the flight tests on the prototypes or production aircrafts.

Finally, we demonstrate compliance with regulation specifications and qualification requirements in order to get our aircraft certified / qualified.

This position is located at Marignane and you will report to the Head of Ground Test & Support department. This position will require a security clearance or will require being eligible for clearance by the recognized authorities.

This position is focussing EMC/EMI/Tempest tests and associated radio tests, with the specific responsibility to be the Discipline Metier Referent for those test activities, therefore also in charge of:

Responsibilities

• Advising / supporting the other colleagues on those specific tests
• Expertising specific problems and supporting troubleshooting
• Proposing together with Design Office colleagues design modifications for solving or improving issues
• Spreading right level of knowledge within the team
• Ensuring that dedicated tools are appropriate, at the state of the art, and triggering innovation for their evolutions or even developing new tools
• Being the main point of contact with dedicated Design Office (ETGS) for Metier, innovations, problematics
• Technical Verification of Metier deliverables (TVE)

In order to do so, you will have in a first step to master the basic activities of EMC/EMI/Tempest and Radio ground tests and the associated Metier processes:

• Organizing Ground Test activities on helicopter (development and certification) with related interfaces (Chief Engineering/Project, Proto Shop, Design department, h/c Test Coordinator/Test Squad Leader…),
• Preparing the tests (procedures, test means, H/C configuration check…),
• Performing the tests,
• Analyzing and validating test data with immediate debriefing/report before flight tests,
• Writing of Technical Fact reports and follow up of respective problem analysis,
• Releasing final Test report, for development and certification/qualification if needed
• Contribution to test strategies or test logic regarding ground test scope making the bridge between upstream means (e.g. H/C0, System Integration Rig, Virtual Integrated Platform and other simulations) and flight testing activities.

Required Skills

• You have an engineering degree in electronics/avionics or aeronautics.
• You have a high level of theoretical knowledge in EMC discipline.

Following additional experiences would be a plus:

• Practical EMC/EMI design/studies
• Radio communications development
• Testing Operations, including definition, execution and analysis
• Project management

• You have problem-solving abilities with proactivity and systematic continuous improvement approach, even if in a complex environment with many stakeholders and under time pressure.
• You have good analysis skills and communication skills and are rigorous.
• A negotiation level of French and an advanced level of English are required.

Please submit your CV in English and/or in French.

Your Working Environment

Major economic hub with Marseille-Provence Airport, Marignane is a dynamic city in the southeast of France. It is located near the cities of Aix-en-Provence and Marseille, which host a rich cultural and tourist offer. Close to the beaches of the Côte Bleue, it offers many options for water sports activities.

How we care for you

• Financial rewards: Attractive salary, agreements on success and profit sharing schemes, employee savings plan abounded by Airbus and employee stock purchase plan on a voluntary basis.
• Work / Life Balance: Extra days-off for special occasions, holiday transfer option, a Staff council offering many social, cultural and sport activities and other services.
• Wellbeing / Health: Complementary health insurance coverage (disability, invalidity, death). Depending on the site: health services center, concierge services, gym, carpooling application.
• Individual development: Great upskilling opportunities and development prospects with unlimited access to +10.000 e-learning courses to develop your employability, certifications, expert career path, accelerated development programmes, national and international mobility.

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

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.

Company: Airbus Helicopters SAS Employment Type: Permanent Classe Emploi (France): Classe G14 Experience Level: Professional Job Family: Testing

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