Assembly Technologies Specialist for Materials & Processes (M&P) (d/f/m), Bremen

Airbus is a leading aircraft manufacturer with the most modern and comprehensive family of airliners on the market, ranging in capacity from 100 to more than 500 seats. Airbus champions innovative technologies and offers some of the world’s most fuel efficient and quiet aircraft. Airbus has sold over 13.800 aircraft to more than 360 customers worldwide. Airbus has achieved more than 8,000 deliveries since the first Airbus aircraft entered into service. Headquartered in Toulouse, France.

Your tasks and responsibilities

• You closely collaborate with research institutes, universities and industrial partners, including material suppliers, looking for novelty solutions in assembly processes (e.g. drilling) and fastening systems.
• You give technical input in (and potentially lead) different R&T projects, working together with all Airframe R&T M&P community, identifying M&P assembly needs for the different components of tomorrow and future industrial system, in a fully transnational way, ensuring corresponding activities and projects (Time/Cost/Quality/Performance).
• You proactively look for synergies on the wide Airbus M&P community scope, making the link to the transnational M&P R&T community and working closely with manufacturing engineering, R&T program and project managers.
• You are airframe M&P R&T key contributor to national funded contracts / bodies in Germany (E.g. LuFo), identifying new M&P assembly initiatives together with manufacturing engineering contribution and alignment, identifying key M&P R&T initiatives to maximize external funding
• You seek for continuous improvement and simplification.

Qualifications

• You hold an academic degree in Engineering related to Materials, Mechanics or similar.
• You have several years of experience on assembly processes, with an overall Materials & Processes background (e.g. composite, metal, surface & paint, non destructive methods ). Manufacturing Engineering / Manufacturing background would be a plus. Experience on working with Final Assembly Line (FAL) or Pre-FAL would be a differentiator. -You have experience in Project (Lifecycle) Management. Experience with Partner & Subcontractor Management would be a plus.
• You are able to work across functions and create a team atmosphere. -You have excellent communication and organizational skills with the ability to evaluate and assess complex issues.
• You are motivated by changing environments and like to think out of the box. -Your English is at negotiation level; German would be a plus. -You are able to do some travel for business.