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Working at Airbus

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Join Airbus Defence and Space SAU in Getafe, Spain as a Fuel, Inerting and Fire Protection Systems Engineer on a permanent, full-time basis. You will manage the full life cycle of vital aerospace systems for major military platforms, utilizing Model Based Systems Engineering and hydromechanical modelling to drive innovation and support ongoing fleet operations.

Requirements

  • Required: Engineering Degree
  • Required: Experience in hydromechanical systems
  • Required: Negotiation level in English (both written and verbal)
  • Desirable: Experience in aerospace systems controls and monitoring, and data analytics
  • Working knowledge of modelling tools such as Matlab, SIMULINK, SCADE, and Amesim

Skills & Responsibilities

  • MBSE and Modeling: Use simulation and modeling tools like Matlab, SIMULINK, and SCADE to design and analyze hydromechanical, functional, and thermal behaviors.
  • System Architecture: Contribute to system definitions, performance allocations, and specification definitions under Model Based Systems Engineering frameworks.
  • Testing and Verification: Support rig, ground, and flight testing activities by defining requirements, tracking execution, and analyzing performance data.
  • Cross-functional Collaboration: Liaise with external suppliers and internal groups including Flight Test, Safety, and Airworthiness to ensure compliance and robust system design.
  • Potential transition routes: People from aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, or systems engineering roles may bring relevant modeling and fluid dynamics skills, alongside meeting mandatory engineering degree and English requirements.

Job description

Job Description:

Our team holds the responsibility on Fuel, Inerting and Fire Protection Systems of our legacy and under-development military platforms (e.g., A400M, C295, Eurofighter, MRTT, EuroDrone, SiRTAP, Saeta II). Along with them, Research, Technology and Development remain a core obligation to sustain, improve and evolve our current portfolio of products as well as our future developments.

The responsibility of our team spans through the complete life cycle of our systems, from earliest conceptual steps to continuous development and in-service fleet support, under all Systems Engineering stages. Thus system conceptual definition, detailed physical design, performance analysis, functional breakdown and implementation in control and monitoring architectures, systems certification and qualification, testing, requirements validation and verification, data reduction and analysis, maintenance and operational concepts - all of them are our tasks.

These activities need usually to be performed with a holistic mindset in their relationship with other sister, supplier and higher level (“system of systems”) instances, highly integrated with other stakeholders from which (and to whom) demands need to be accounted for.

Finally, in the current context of transformation and digitalization, skilful applicants are expected to be fluent and familiar with typical Systems Engineering processes and methods, notably MBSE (Model Based Systems Engineering).

The environment and context under which these activities are performed, demand flexible, open and adaptable responses, but also offer the opportunity to grow (and help peers grow) professionally in a number of different contexts and disciplines.

Tasks and accountabilities:

In the frame of our portfolio products (Eurofighter, C295, A400M, SiRTAP, Saeta II, Airbus Military Derivatives), the successful applicant main tasks and responsibilities will include:

- Contribute to the definition of Fuel, Inerting & Fire Protection Systems architecture.

- Allocation of functions, requirements, performance and integrity level for the subsystems and equipment.

- Systems, subsystems and equipment specification definition, under the frame of Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE).

- Hydromechanic, functional, performance and thermal modelling of system behaviour along with individual system components.

- Liaison with external partners, vendors and suppliers for the specification of products and followup of industrial and documentary deliverables.

- Liaison with various groups within Airbus: Flight Test, Safety, Chief Engineer's Office, Programs, Airworthiness, Customer Support, MAP / FAL on-site, Procurement.

- Elaborating relevant documentation for airworthiness, certification and qualification purposes.

- Elaborating technical reports and analysis on functional, performance, control and monitoring, zonal safety and physical installation.

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Airbus

Fuel, Inerting and Fire Protection Systems Engineer

Getafe

- Support to testing activities: definition of test requirements, support for test execution, test tracking and test reporting (rig, aircraft ground and aircraft flight testing).

- Analysis of occurrences (In-service fleet, Continuous Airworthiness Support, Equipment Obsolescence) and evaluation of consequences and mitigations.

Skills

As a successful candidate you will be able to demonstrate some or all of the following skills and competencies:

- Engineering Degree

- Working knowledge of Modelling tools (Matlab, SIMULINK, SCADE, Amesim, etc.)

- Experience in Hydromechanical systems is mandatory.

- Experience in Aerospace Systems Controls and Monitoring is desirable.

- Experience in Data Analytics is desirable.

- Experience in Aerospace Hydromechanical Systems is desirable.

- Negotiation level in English (both written and verbal).

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:
Fluid & Hydromechanics, Thermal

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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