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WHY SHOULD YOU APPLY?

LIFE IN ALBACETE: QUALITY & CONVENIENCE - Forget long commutes. Albacete offers you the great advantage of a “15-minute city": safe, accessible, comfortable and perfectly connected. Enjoy a premium standard of living at a competitive cost, ensuring you have the perfect balance between your career and your personal life.

AIRBUS HELICOPTERS: GROW WITH US - We offer more than a job; we offer a community. Immerse yourself in a young, collaborative environment that feels like family. As a strategic Center of Excellence, we are a global leader in helicopter production, offering you endless potential to grow alongside our major projects.

Bring your ideas to a dynamic, modern ecosystem and help us build the next generation of aerospace solutions.

WHICH BENEFITS WILL YOU HAVE?

• Expand your network within the aeronautical industry.
• Meet our people working with passion and determination to make the world a more connected, safer and smarter place.
• Be part of our diversity and teamwork culture that propel us to accomplish the extraordinary - on the ground, in the sky and in space.

ARE YOU INTERESTED? APPLY AND MAKE IT FLY! 

Key Responsibilities:

• Elaborate, optimize and communicate flight tests planning.
• Prepare and manage flight tests dispatch. Ensure availability of flight tests documentation (including on board and regulatory flight authorizations).
• Follow-up tests execution to support maturity and safety.
• Prepare and coordinate all the aspects of a test campaign.
• Operate test means for flight tests (telemetry, radio, …).
• Screen and optimize test requests, screen and optimize planning, support readiness for test execution in close relation with stakeholders, follow-up flight tests related certification documentation.

Your main tasks and responsibilities will include:

• Test preparation:
  • Elaborating, optimizing, and communicating planning of ground and flight test activities on prototype and series helicopters in accordance with the Test Coordinator/Test Squad Leader.
  • Ensuring the consolidation of all testing activities on aircraft and the involvement of all stakeholders inside and outside the Flight Test Department.
  • Screening and optimizing ground and flight test specifications/orders and supporting feasibility investigations regarding necessary tools, equipment as well as testing infrastructure in general.
  • Preparing flight test campaigns on different locations / areas, mainly in Europe. Supporting the Test Coordinator on negotiation of terms and conditions as well as costs for establishing.
  • Supporting prototype shop during preparation of lay-ups.
  • Supporting readiness for test performance in close relation with all stakeholders:
    • Ensuring that the right test configuration of prototype and series test helicopters is established and documented well (helicopter, test equipment, flight test instrumentation) for each test purpose.
    • Issuing appropriate documentation for the flight clearance approval.
    • Ensure availability of flight tests documentation (including on board and regulatory flight authorizations).
• Test execution:
  • Contributing to all relevant activities during the testing phases to ensure the test schedule.
  • Supporting on-site and off-site test campaigns on demand / when necessary: Supporting ground and flight test operations.
  • Potentially operating test means for flight tests, testing observation by telemetry on ground during critical test flights.
  • As member of the extended Flight Test Integrated Team, being the interface towards Flight Test Department internal departments like data analyses, flight test instrumentation and data reduction.
• Test reporting:
  • Supporting on issuing ground and flight test reports.
  • Coordinating delivery of certification test documentation.
  • Managing administrative tasks with regards to flight test activities (statistics on flight hour efforts, failures, reports and documentation).

We are looking for candidates with the following skills and experience:

• Degree in Engineering (Bachelor’s or Master’s, or equivalent diploma), preferably with an aeronautical/aerospace profile.
• Strong analytical, rigor and problem-solving skills with a proactive and systematic continuous improvement approach, capable of performing effectively even in complex environments involving multiple stakeholders and tight deadlines.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Flexibility, availability, and the ability to adapt to complex and dynamic scenarios.
• Advanced level of English and Spanish; French and/or German will be highly valued.
• Knowledge and/or experience in Engineering Systems, Vehicle Systems and Avionics, Engineering Requirements, System Design and Development, Systems Integration, Validation and Verification (V&V), Airworthiness, and Flight Safety.
• Knowledge of rotary-wing platforms, complex avionics systems (e.g., HELIONIX), and NH90 / H145 fleets will be considered a strong plus.
• Experience and/or knowledge in systems and systems integration, weaponry, testing, Certification, and Qualification (under EASA or other regulations) is highly desirable.
• Aeronautical hobbies, knowledge and related experience (PPL, UAS, gliders, etc.) will be considered an asset

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.

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