Senior Materials Specialist

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Job Description:

Airbus Helicopters is looking for a Sr Material Specialist to join our Logistics team based in Grand Prairie, TX.

Duties include coordinating logistical support for the Grand Prairie facility, to facilitate movements for material coming in for repair/overhaul to the various MRO shops. Tasks to coordinate include receiving, verifying and inducting items in the MRO shops in a timely manner to support MRO-TAT, record keeping, movement of materials as well as providing customer support to both internal and external customers. This position will report to the Supervisor, Repairables Logistics

Meet the team:

From building to servicing the next generation of aerospace, our team focuses on quality, productivity and efficiency. We ensure the highest quality of care and safety is built into each aircraft we assemble and maintain. Our team members make it happen.

Your working environment:

A suburb just outside the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area is home to Airbus Helicopters U.S. regional headquarters, where we have more than 1,000 employees. Check out one of the seven professional sports teams that also call Dallas home - you may even see a special, custom Airbus helicopter dedicated to the Dallas Cowboys flying during home games.

How we care for you:

• Financial Rewards: Competitive base salary, incentive compensation which may include profit sharing schemes, retirement savings plan and the ability to participate in an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (“ESOP”)
  
• Work/Life Balance: Paid time off including personal time, holidays and a generous paid parental leave program.
  
• Health & Welfare: Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical (traditional and high-deductible health plans), prescription, dental, vision, life, disability, Employee Assistance Plan (“EAP”) and other supplemental benefit coverages.
  
• Individual Development: Upskilling and development opportunities through our global Leadership University, including unlimited access to 10,000+ e-learning courses focusing on ways to develop your employability, certifications, career path as well as the opportunity to participate in accelerated development programmes and both national and international mobility.
  

At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and accessibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

Your challenges:

Daily Activity: 50%

• Receive and verify all inbound material and components to be inducted to shops.
  
• Trouble shoot issues and coordinate with both internal and external customers as needed.
  
• Ensure component log and log for parts sent to DFW for repairables is maintained.
  
• Coordinate with blade shop for weekly consolidation of export shipment
  
• Coordinate and help in the physical movement of materials, blades and components as required
  
• Ensure proper packaging and preparation of shipments departing the Grand Prairie location.
  

Training and Support: 25%

• Administer safety training as required
  
• Ensure compliance with all workplace safety requirements
  
• Seek continuous improvement opportunities
  
• Conduct remedial training
  
• Balance and direct workflow for areas of responsibility daily
  

Coordination and Balancing of Workload: 25%

• Monitor workload and task distribution among Grand Prairie staff.
  
• Assign tasks and workload as needed to ensure daily requirements are met.
  
• Monitor work complete and notify customers of concerns as they arise.
  
• Recommend staff members to management for recognition or corrective action.
  

Your boarding pass:

Education:

Required

• High School Diploma equivalent.
  

Preferred

• None
  

Experience:

Required

• Minimum three (3) years’ experience in repairables field
  

Preferred

• Prior SAP experience preferred but not required
  

Licensure/Certifications:

Required

• None
  

Preferred

• Training or certification in the transportation of dangerous goods
  

Citizenship:

• US Citizen/US Person
  

Physical Requirements:

• Onsite or remote: 100% Onsite
  
• Vision: able to see and read computer screens and other electronic equipment with screens, able to read documents, reports and engineering drawings. Continually
  
• Hearing: able to participate in conversations in person and via teleconference or phone and to hear sounds on the production floor including safety warnings or alarms. Continually
  
• Speaking: able to speak in conversations and meetings, deliver information and participate in communications. Continually
  
• Equipment Operation (personal computer, telephone, copies, fax machine, and related office equipment and using electronic identification card to enter building floors and internal doors): able to operate most office and personal electronic equipment and some tools including production tools such as hydraulic lifts, and warehouse material handling equipment. Daily
  
• Carrying: able to carry documents, tools, drawings, electronic equipment up to 30lbs/14kgs.
  
• Lifting: able to lift documents, tools, drawings, electronic equipment up to 30lbs/14kgs.
  
• Pushing / Pulling: able to push and pull small office furniture and some equipment and tools.
  
• Sitting: able to sit for long periods of time in meetings, working on the computer.
  
• Squatting / Kneeling: able to squat or kneel to retrieve or replace items stored on low shelving.
  
• Standing: able to stand for discussions in offices or on the production floor.
  

Equal Opportunity:

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or other legally protected status

As a leader in our field, Airbus Helicopters, Inc. provides relocation assistance for qualified positions and a comprehensive compensation and benefits package.

As a matter of policy, Airbus Helicopters, Inc. does not sponsor visas for US positions unless specified. Only applicants with current work authorization will be considered.

Airbus Helicopters, Inc. does not offer tenured or guaranteed employment. Employment with Airbus is at will, meaning either the company or the employee can terminate the employment relationship at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice.

NOTE: Airbus Helicopters, Inc. reserves the right to revise or change job duties and responsibilities as the need arises. This position description does not constitute a written or implied contract of employment.

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Company:
Airbus Helicopters, Inc.

Employment Type:
US - Direct Hire