Design Engineer III

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Job Description:

TITLE:                                  Design Engineer III

EMPLOYER:                        Airbus Americas, Inc.

LOCATION:                         Wichita, KS

DUTIES:                             

Creating or modifying routine to moderate repair tasks autonomously. Reviewing and interpreting damage reports of aircraft structures from the Maintenance Repair Organization and developing quality repair solutions with little support. Creating or modifying technical documents. Repairing Drawings within various Airbus computer-based applications with high quality and efficiency. Liaising with Static Stress, F&DT and other appropriate Airbus departments to come up with optimum design solutions for the airline customer. Assisting with preparation of various documents using Airbus computer-based toolsets including SAP and AirDoc. Developing and presenting materials for team related briefings to internal and/or external customers. Together with other Repair Engineers, be a member of an integrated engineering team, ensuring its strategy, policy and direction is maintained. Providing responses to routine to moderate repair queries by giving guidance as required within Airbus Operations and Customer Services in a clear and concise manner. Ensuring all tasks and activities are correctly planned, monitored and executed to achieve customer time scales. Identifying and supporting local improvement initiatives to increase team efficiency through process, methods and tools improvements.

REQUIREMENTS:               

Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field and 5 years in any job title involving experience in structural design and analysis in the aviation industry. Prior experience must also include: Experience in structural mechanics of materials related to primary and secondary aircraft structures; Experience with aircraft product design and development; Collaborating with stress engineering to analyze loads and optimize aircraft design; Experience with CAD, CAM, and CAE tools for aircraft design and manufacturing; Experience reading and interpreting engineering drawings, design principles and bill of material systems; Experience in MRB Engineering; Experience in repair solutions/dispositions for airframe composite structures; and Experience reading, analyzing, and interpreting technical procedures and government regulations including SRM, NTM and IPC. Up to 5% domestic and international travel required for business meetings and training. Telework permitted up to 2 days per week.

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 Americas, Inc.

Employment Type:

US - Direct Hire

Experience Level:

Professional

Remote Type:

On-site

Job Family:

Structure Design & Integration <JF-EN-EO>

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