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Airbus • Marseille, France

#ET19R Stress Engineer (d/f/m)

Employment type:  Full time
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Job Description

Job Description:

Are you a motivated, curious junior engineer with a M.Sc or PhD in aerospace engineering or equivalent?

Do you want to work on exciting development projects and be part of shaping the future of VTOLs at Airbus Helicopters?

Is your passion structural analysis and solving engineering challenges? And you’ve already done your first steps via your thesis or as a traineeship in this area?

You want to develop yourself towards an analytical and numerical stress specialist and be motivated to learn and develop quickly into this metier?

Then join our Airframe and Mechanical Equipment Stress team at Airbus Helicopters in Marignane!

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.

Your challenges

The Airframe Stress Department is part of the Airbus Helicopters development and research organisation and is responsible for a variety of topics concerning strength, loads and crash of helicopter airframes and mechanical equipments.

We work in an agile style with empowered staff developing our new Helicopters/VTOLs as well as modify and tailor our large product portfolio towards customer needs.

Your main tasks and activities :

  • Structural evaluation/stress analysis during different development phases, from concept to detailed design phase, with the target of an optimized design in terms of strength, fatigue life, weight and cost
  • Sizing and strength substantiation according to hand calculation methodology and FEM (linear and non-linear), to optimize airframe and mechanical equipment designs
  • Preparation of test programs and test orders as well as supervision of the tests
  • Preparation of justification reports for static strength and fatigue
  • Determination and justification of service life, inspection and maintenance intervals
  • Dealing with manufacturing deviations including the definition of rework and repairs as well with customer service requests


Your Qualifications

  • We are looking for you as a committed, independent and autonomous candidate ideally with a first few years of professional experience in the fields of structural analysis and fatigue in the aviation sector or related industry
  • You should have a great sense of responsibility and enjoy working in teams and communicating in a multi-layered development world
  • Basic knowledge of justification methods (analytical methodologies and FEM) for metal and composite materials are a prerequisite.
  • You own minimum a M.Sc. or Ph.D. in aerospace engineering or equivalent and you have either written your thesis or worked as a trainees in stress area
  • Additional requirement: French and English advanced level


We look forward to receiving your detailed application!

Not a 100% match? No worries! Airbus supports your personal growth with customized development solutions.

Take your career to a new level and apply online now!

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
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Classe Emploi (France): Classe F12

Experience Level:
Professional

Job Family:
Structure & Dynamic Systems Analysis

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Airbus is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.

Airbus is, and always has been, committed to equal opportunities for all. As such, we will never ask for any type of monetary exchange in the frame of a recruitment process. Any impersonation of Airbus to do so should be reported to emsom@airbus.com .

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.

Company benefits

Open to part-time employees
Open to job sharing
Annual bonus
Enhanced maternity leave
Open to compressed hours
Accrued annual leave
Sabbaticals
Enhanced sick pay
Adoption leave
Health insurance
Enhanced paternity leave
Family health insurance
Complimentary Medical Services
Referral bonus
Bike parking
Cycle to work scheme
On-site gym
Teambuilding days
In house training
Employee discounts

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