Senior Firearm Design Engineer Jobs in Mobile, AL

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Job Description:

The Cabin Design Engineer supports the development, customization, and continuous evolution of aircraft cabin and cargo interiors/payloads for airline customers. Working under general direction at an intermediate to advanced professional level, the engineer autonomously performs routine to moderate levels of engineering design, analysis, and data integration from initial conceptual phase to final product installation.

Key responsibilities are balanced across providing technical oversight of cabin and cargo suppliers to ensure delivery of integrated engineering solutions meeting technical requirements, ensuring cabin and cargo equipment design data can be certified with all necessary test and qualification data, and developing solutions for complex engineering problems requiring judgement and ingenuity.

Meet the team:

Our Engineers have the privilege of working on complex, highly engineered machines and are involved at all stages of the aircraft life cycle, from product development to manufacturing and direct support to our airline customers. If you're interested in designing, creating, and testing the present and future of Airbus products across the globe, join our mission to connect the world.

Your working environment:

The Engineering Center in Mobile, Alabama houses hundreds of Airbus engineers who assist in the design and development of Airbus commercial aircraft cabins, including aftermarket upgrades, reconfigurations and services of all product types across the globe.

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.

Your challenge:

• Design Integration & Maturation: Autonomously perform routine to moderate levels of design solution development.
• Complex Technical Support: Provide real-time engineering support to engineering processes and suggest modifications regarding the design and development of aircraft cabins and components/systems.
• Qualification and Supplier Oversight: Lead the qualification of cabin and cargo design solutions, providing technical oversight to suppliers to ensure compliance to engineering principles, regulatory standards, and customer requirements.
• Qualification and Compliance: Review, evaluate and secure engineering compliance documents from suppliers to support technical and airworthiness approval. This includes checking Qualification Plans, Test Reports and Declarations of Design and Performance (DDP) for technical accuracy and alignment with requirements.
• Project & Deliverable Management: Accept broad objectives with agreed deadlines regarding component integration and qualification, establishing the tasks required and how they should be completed. Independently drive suppliers to ensure high-quality and timely delivery of engineering documents (test plans, test reports, certification data).
• Identify and support local improvement initiatives to increase team efficiency through process, methods, and tools improvements.
• Other responsibilities and ad-hoc engineering support as assigned.

Your boarding pass:

• Bachelor of Science (BS) Degree in Engineering of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Aerospace Engineering.
• Minimum nine (9) years of experience in design, analysis, and systems/structural integration, and qualification of cabin interiors, monuments, furnishings, or systems.
• Experience participating in the review and tracking of supplier technical compliance documentation.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the principles of aircraft design, systems engineering methods, processes and deliverables.
• Frequently uses widely known technical principles, theories, and concepts to solve technical problems.
• Ability to understand and follow complex engineering processes, and to extract information from those processes to include timescales, enablers and deliverables.
• Demonstrated experience handling configuration management, engineering change tracking, or part structures within an aerospace Design Office environment.
• Capable of working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment both independently and collectively.
• Dependable, self-motivated and accessible.
• Able to read and interpret engineering drawings and schematics.
• Basic knowledge of regulatory requirements pertaining to aircraft design, certification and maintenance.
• Capable of creating and delivering technical documents and presentations without guidance.
• Strong computer background, including Google Suite application experience (Docs, Sheets, Slides, Gmail).
• Authorized to work in US.

Preferred experience:

• Working knowledge of cabin interior product or systems development.

Travel Required

• 10% Domestic and/or International

Physical Requirements

• Onsite 80% Remote 20%
• Vision: able to see and read computer screen and other electronic equipment with screens, able to read documents, reports and engineering drawings. Daily
• Hearing: able to hear to participate in conversations in person and via teleconference or phone and to hear sounds on production floor including safety warnings or alarms. Daily
• Speaking: able to speak in conversations and meetings, deliver information and participate in communications. Daily
• 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. Daily
• Carrying: able to carry documents, tools, drawings, electronic equipment up to 30lbs/14kgs. Rarely
• Lifting: able to lift documents, tools, drawings, electronic equipment up to 30lbs/14kgs. Rarely
• Pushing / Pulling: able to push and pull small office furniture and some equipment and tools. Daily
• Sitting: able to sit for long periods of time in meetings, working on computer. Daily
• Squatting / Kneeling: able to squat or kneel to retrieve or replace items stored on low shelving. Daily
• Standing: able to stand for discussions in offices or on production floor. Daily
• Travel: able to travel independently and at short notice. Rarely
• Walking (include routine walking such as to a shared printer to retrieve documents): able to walk through office and production areas including uneven surfaces. Daily

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 Americas, Inc.

Employment Type:

US - Direct Hire

Experience Level:

Professional

Remote Type:

On-site

Job Family:

Computing&Comm and Info& Data Processing

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