ET#20 Certification Qualification Engineer - NH90 qualification step (f/m) (H/F)

AIRBUS HELICOPTERS SAS; Marseille; Sur place; EUR 70 000 - 100 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Airbus Helicopters is seeking a Certification Qualification Engineer for the NH90 program in Marignane to manage certification, qualification and initial airworthiness activities for the programme. You will coordinate with authorities worldwide, define the certification basis and strategy, and lead demonstrations to show compliance, ensuring on-time milestones.

This role may involve signature authority within the design assurance system and close collaboration with internal teams and external

Responsabilités

• Perform the certification and qualification activities for NH90 helicopter programmes in an international environment, coordinating with internal teams and external authorities.
• Negotiate the certification basis and strategy with Airworthiness Authorities, including means of compliance and demonstrations of compliance.
• Lead certification and qualification activities to meet NH90 development and deliveries milestones and ensure in-service safety.
• Produce certification/qualification synthesis documents and harmonize them with authorities and nations.
• Coordinate creation and delivery of compliance demonstrations in line with project milestones and country-specific requirements.
• Be the focal point for Airworthiness/Qualification topics for NH90 versions, interfacing with internal customers and external authorities.
• Become an authorized signatory and responsible figure within the design assurance system for certification and qualification.

Description du poste

Job Description:

Take off with Airbus Helicopters!

A vacancy for a Certification Qualification Engineer NH90 Program has arisen within Airbus Helicopters.

Join us to shape the future of aeronautics and help protect lives during missions accomplished thanks to our helicopters.

The Marignane site, the 3rd largest industrial site in France, near Marseille and Aix-en-Provence, is undergoing a deep transformation to offer a high-tech, inclusive, and environmentally friendly working environment.

You will have a unique professional experience, at the heart of the manufacturing of our helicopters.

To learn more about our site and our activities: Airbus Helicopters - Marignane

Your future missions:

You will join the Airworthiness Office of Airbus Helicopters in Marignane and become part of the Chief Airworthiness Engineer's (CAE) Team for NH90 Program to support the safety of our products by managing the Certification, Qualification and initial Airworthiness activities for your program. This includes new helicopter type certification, changes to existing helicopter type certificates and flight clearances.

Each Project involves various contributors (Chief Engineering, designers, internal and external specialists, customer support, prototype shop, Final Assembly Line, ...).

As Certification Qualification Engineer you will be the focal point for the Airworthiness Authorities with whom you will negotiate the certification basis as well as the certification strategy and means of compliance (lab/ground/flight testing, Safety analysis...) and authority involvement (document acceptance, test witnessing, in-house reviews...).

As Certification/Qualification Engineer you will be responsible to ensure demonstration of compliance to the applicable airworthiness requirements, to ensure their in-service safety. You will be responsible for leading the Certification and Qualification activities necessary to meet the NH90 development and deliveries milestones.

This results in a challenging transverse position, including negotiation internally but also with Aviation Authorities world-wide, with great responsibilities, and a good overview on our products, on our systems and on our organization.

Your Challenges :

Your mission is to perform the certification and qualification activities of the NH90 Spanish Helicopter, in an international environment with its industrial partners, within the transnational team of the Chief Airworthiness Engineer. You will join NH90 Airworthiness Support Team, and work mainly on NH90 qualification steps projects.

To achieve this you have to:

• Identify/define/harmonize the applicable Certification / Qualification requirements for the scope of modifications you were allocated.
• Define the Certification/qualification Logics, elaborate and harmonize internally and externally (Spanish Airworthiness Authorities) the certification & qualification plans, including the identification of the Means of Compliance and associated demonstrations of compliance.
• Coordinate the creation and delivery of those compliance demonstrations in accordance with the general milestones provided by the Project team
• Validate those demonstrations of compliance and harmonize them with Authorities and Nations.
• Produce the certification / qualification synthesis documents and harmonize them with authorities.

In Parallel, the position may offer the opportunity to:

• Work on the other fields of certification, such as Flight Clearances, Repairs, Concessions, Tech pub stand-alone changes, or Post-TC topics.
• Depending your activities, you could also be part of the associated procedures harmonization when needed.
• Promote our Roles & Responsibilities and associated processes within Airbus Helicopter and in front of our Authorities.
• Be the point of contact of all Airworthiness/Qualification topics relative to one or several NH90 versions (and/or qualification Steps) in front of internal customers/suppliers (LF, Project, Configuration ...) as well as external ones (authorities, partners).
• Become authorized signatory and responsible within the design assurance system including the whole process of certification and qualification
• Manage a transversal team for a given certification/qualification project