FMTC (FutuFMTC Chief Engineering - Requirements and Technical Integration Manager

Job Description:

The jobholder main accountabilities are:

• Setting up the capture of Concept of Operations expected by the FMTC PESCO leading and member Nations for FMTC Aircraft through an agreed governance with Nations and Industrial partners
• The Deployment and the implementation of the appropriate Requirements capture and cascade and methodologies, processes and tools inside Airbus and the FMTC consortium of industrial partners (Requirement Based Engineering, Model-Based Systems Engineering)
• The management of FMTC technical reference configurations descriptions and the establishment of evaluation criteria for the trade-offs studies linked to requirements/capabilities and/or linked to technology insertion
• The establishment of the appropriate processes, methods and tools, digital working environment for technical data exchange and set of tools for the early concept phase configuration management inside the FMTC consortium while taking into account export control and potential restrictions coming from National Authorities
• The management of the FMTC Engineering roadmap and Strategy
• The management of the preparation and validation of the technical part of offers aiming for capturing additional funding sources of FMTC with the support of FMTC Chief Engineer Architects and Consortium Partners (European Defense Fund 2024, National Minister of Defense fundings, R&T European and National fundings for dual use technologies (commercial and military applications))
• The support to Customer interface at European Level (PESCO forum, PO when necessary)
• The support of FMTC CE on ADS and ACA engineering OP and strategic resources planning exercises
• The management of engineering contribution for new offers / contract for R&T / R&D projects
• The management of engineering inputs to BDPR process and execution of BDPR funded WPs

The jobholder will work in a transnational environment and in a multifunctional way with FMTC Chief Engineer Architects, FMTC Program, Costing, Commercial, Industrialization teams and key stakeholders from FASETT2 (Future Air System for European Tactical Transport) partners companies (27 partners). Furthermore, he will manage technical interface with key external stake holders such as European home countries FMTC minister of defense representatives (from Air Force staffs / defense procurement agencies), European Defense Agency representatives and other institutional representatives of source of funding of FMTC due to FMTC technological and engineering footprint and technical representatives of the participating industries.