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Airbus • Sevilla, Spain

Flight Test Instrumentation laboratory technician

Employment type:  Full time
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Job Description

Job Description:

Descripción de puesto:

A vacancy for a FTI Architecture & Equipment has arisen in Getafe within Airbus Defence & Space. The successful applicant will join Engineering Area in the Flight & Integration Test Centre.

Tasks & accountabilities

The mission of Flight Tests Instrumentation Architecture & Equipment is to provide Flight Test Means to gather data from the test object (on A/C) for further evaluation.

Our range of capabilities covers: special systems (on board installations), quick response (multidisciplinary knowledge and quick troubleshooting), technologies (sensors -including quality & metrology; data acquisition & distribution, recording, video, telemetry, time synchronization...) and also manufacturing (onboard racks manufacturing, equipment manufacturing and qualification, etc)

You will be part of a team responsible for the full life cycle of a Flight Test Instrumentation (FTI) installation. From conception to deployment, going through equipment and system integration in the laboratory.

Your main tasks and responsibilities will include:

- Laboratory activities: planning, stock control, logistics (reception and delivery of materials).

- Harness manufacturing for testing equipment, based in standard FTI documentation & procedures

- Racks harnesses manufacturing and routing, based in standard FTI documentation & procedures

- Basic tests to be performed in FTI equipment.

- Support to advanced tests as sensor calibrations or intensive ATP to complex equipment

- Procurement

- Investigations/analysis of problems; troubleshootings to know the root cause of a problem.

- Basic repairs of electronic devices

- Development and manufacturing of PCB

- Documentation of acceptance and verification tests of FTI equipment and FTI systems.

- Support internal initiatives for the use of AI for improving business applications and products oriented to FTI laboratory activities.

Required skills

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

  • Educated to medium degree level in the area of electronics and/or telecommunications.
  • Demonstrated previous experiences in Testing Activities.
  • Deep knowledge in testing laboratory equipment (scopes, multimeters, signal generators, etc)
  • Knowledge in Flight Test devices, including sensors.
  • Radio Frequency chain (transmitters, cabling and elements calibration and operation)
  • WAN/LAN protocols stack (TCP/UDP, IP, PTP, SNMP, Ethernet, ...)
  • Network Simulation & Analysis tools (Wireshark -dissectors-, IPerf, ...)
  • Knowledge of the following documentation and tools are valuable: A/C installation documentation, NRD, A400M FTI Block Diagrams, Drawing Information Sheets and FTI Data Sheets, Sabre, Sabre Criev, STILo, N-Show, RODAS, EPD, TLB, FTI databases, FIDA, ICS, DOORS.
  • Knowledge of Click & Buy tool and also Export Control process is desirable
  • High ability to understand/find-out the behaviour of electronic devices and digital protocols.
  • Team spirit to work as part of a multidisciplinary team (sometimes under pressure).
  • Proactivity in problems finding and solutions proposals.
  • Methodical, organized and assertive profile is expected.

The candidate will work in a multinational and multicultural team.

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 Defence and Space SAU

Employment Type:
Permanent
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Experience Level:
Professional

Job Family:
Testing

By submitting your CV or application you are consenting to Airbus using and storing information about you for monitoring purposes relating to your application or future employment. This information will only be used by Airbus.
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.

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Company benefits

Accrued annual leave
Adoption leave
Annual bonus
Bike parking
Coaching
Complimentary Medical Services
Cycle to work scheme
Employee discounts
Enhanced maternity leave
Enhanced paternity leave
Enhanced sick pay
Family health insurance
Health insurance
In house training
Language lessons
Mentoring
On-site gym
Open to compressed hours
Open to job sharing
Open to part time work for some roles
Open to part-time employees
Referral bonus
Sabbaticals
Teambuilding days
Mental health support
Mental health platform access
Mental health first aiders

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