Join Airbus Defence & Space in Getafe, Spain as a Mass Properties Engineer (Professional, Permanent). You will contribute to vehicle development, define mass targets, validate mass, and optimize aircraft design in a hybrid work environment.
Requirements
Degree in Aeronautical Engineering.
0-5 years of experience, with Flight Physics or Structural Design and Mass Properties experience highly valuable.
Advanced English proficiency.
German language skills are considered valuable.
Skills & Responsibilities
Aeronautical Engineering: Apply technical knowledge to define mass status, target mass, and route to target for new vehicle developments.
Mass Management & Validation: Perform mass estimations, calculations, accounting, weight control, and validate mass through weighings.
Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner with multiple technical disciplines to challenge vehicle design and perform trade studies, benchmarking, and competitor analyses.
Data Modeling: Deliver mass models for loads analyses and support marketing with customer guarantees and weight and balance.
Potential transition routes: People from structural design or flight physics roles may bring relevant analytical and engineering skills, alongside meeting mandatory aeronautical engineering degrees and advanced English requirements.
Job description
Job Description:
A vacancy for a Mass Properties Engineer has arisen within Airbus Defence & Space in Getafe (Madrid). The successful applicant will join Flight Physics Department.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Your main tasks and responsibilities will include:
Contribute to development of new vehicles (incl. derivatives), operational support of in-service vehicles and decommissioning.
Define mass status, target mass and route to target.
Contribute to monitoring and reporting mass at the various stages of vehicle life through Mass estimations, calculations, accounting and weight control.
Validate mass by weighing's.
Collaborate with many technical disciplines to understand and to challenge the vehicle design in the quest for optimum mass.
Deliver mass models for Loads analyses.
Perform trade studies, benchmarking and competitors' analyses.
Contribute to the overall vehicle optimisation.
Provide support to Chief Engineering and Program for decision making.
Contribute in Design reviews, Weight maturity reviews, weight savings, preparing and tracking mass Risk & Opportunities.
Support marketing to prepare Customer Guarantees and vehicle deliveries. Load ability, weight & balance. Develop capabilities (R&T, M&T) and processes to enable and enhance Time, Quality, Cost delivery to the programs.
Developing all the Mass properties competences in our products, Combat and Military Transport, working in a transnational team between Spain and Germany.
SKILLS
We are looking for candidates with the following skills and experience:
Educated to degree level in Aeronautical Engineering
Experience of 0-5 years. Flight Physics or Structural Design and Mass Properties experience will be highly valuable.
English advanced
German will be valuable
The desire to work in an open and trusting environment.
Agile with good communication skills
Ability to work independently/autonomously and is self-organised.
Aspiration to work in an Engineering domain and discuss aircraft level topics.
Keen to adopt a new way of working and to become empowered.
WHICH BENEFITS WILL YOU HAVE AS AIRBUS EMPLOYEE?
At Airbus we are focused on our employees and their welfare. Take a look at some of our social benefits:
Vacation days plus additional days-off along the year.
Attractive salary.
Hybrid model of working when possible.
Collective transport service subject to working calendar/home location.
Benefits such as life insurance, health insurance, employee stock options, retirement plan, or study grants.
On-site facilities (among others): free canteen, kindergarten, medical office.
Possibility to collaborate in different social and corporate social responsibility initiatives.
Excellent upskilling opportunities and great development prospects in a multicultural environment.
Option to access special rates in products & benefits.
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Company: Airbus Defence and Space SAU
Employment Type: Permanent -------
Experience Level: Professional
Job Family: Programme & Project Management
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