COMPLETE Production Engineering Specialist - Columbus, MS

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Job Description:

Airbus Helicopters is looking for a Production Engineering Specialist to join our FAL Planning and Coordinating Team in Columbus, MS.

Position is responsible for translating Engineering design data, for all technical aspects, into work instructions for fabrication, assembly, and installation of sheet metal, composite, and electrical parts. Position is responsible for creating and maintaining released/approved data structures, within the dedicated MRP system, to ensure conformity to design, configuration management, quality assurance, and material planning/schedule requirements. Analyze manufacturing process flows for enhancements and reductions of cycle time, cost, and material consumption.

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:

On the eastern border of Mississippi you’ll find Columbus, home to our Helicopter manufacturing and assembly lines and Center of Excellence for the entire North America region. It’s here that we produce the UH-72A Lakota Helicopters for the U.S. Army in addition to the H-125 aircraft for civil and commercial customers.

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 support flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

Your challenges:

. Work Preparation: 50%

• Create, document, implement, and improve technical work instructions, based on design data, to describe the complete process required to manufacture, assemble, test, process, and deliver the products of the company.
• Review, prepare, and sequence tasks to ensure manufacturing, assembly, and installation requirements are executed to maximize efficiency, and are in coordination with industrial schedules, back shops, productions lines, and retrofit, as required.
• Construct and input engineering design data requirements into the dedicated MRP system to create or maintain Production Engineering structures, including but not limited to, routing instructions, material requirements (BOM), design and special process references, tools, and standard times.
• Review and analyze parts and/or assemblies and make determinations for in-house manufacturing vs external procurement, depending on complexity, capability, cost, and lead times, as well as make-to-stock vs. build to A/C decisions, to maximize efficiency.
• Estimate production times and relative cost to manufacture/install to provide data for operational decisions in support of program quotation, scheduling, resource/skill capacity planning, production, back shops, and retrofit.

2. Coordination: 30%

• Coordinate new, and audit existing, work instructions to enhance internal products, ensuring work orders contain more detailed and value added information for internal customers.
• Coordinate with Design Engineering Specialist, Data Management, Planning, Procurement, Engineering, Quality, Production, and Retrofit teams to ensure accurate communication of design requirements, in order to facilitate the manufacturing and installation for serial production, retrofit, and NHC activities.
• Coordinate material and operational instruction changes with Procurement, Shop Floor Control, Quality, and Industry.
• Coordinate with Configuration Management Specialist to ensure new and existing design data is made available to industrial and quality personnel.

3. Configuration: 20%

• Possess fundamental knowledge of Configuration Management in order to administer the design implementation and evolution of all products of the company, related to Parts 21 and 145.
• Execute Drawing Release Orders (DRO) and implement affected changes into serial production, NHC, or Retrofit structures, when applicable to master material data and/or released production orders.

Your boarding pass:

Education:

Required:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Experience:

Required:

• Minimum 5 years' experience interpreting and translating engineering drawings, electrical schematics, wiring diagrams, and/or other technical data.
• Minimum 5 years' experience with production orders, including but not limited to, routings and bill of materials.
• Minimum 5 years' experience in an aviation manufacturing or customization environment.

Preferred:

• Knowledge and experience with electrical schematics and wiring diagrams

Licensure/Certifications:

Required:

• None

Preferred:

• None

Knowledge, Skills, Demonstrated Capabilities:

Required:

• Ability to read, understand, and interpret engineering drawings, reports, industrial standards/norms, and other technical data
• Knowledge with material requirements planning systems, such as SAP.

Preferred:

• Ability to read and interpret electrical schematics and wiring diagrams

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A full job description will be provided to candidates whom progress to interview stage or any candidate upon request.

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 Helicopters, Inc.

Employment Type:

Permanent

Experience Level:

Professional

Remote Type:

Flexible

Job Family:

Manufacturing Engineering

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