#ET19A - Rotor System Design H225/H215 Work Package Manager (H/F)

Airbus; Marseille; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

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Job summary

Airbus Helicopters SAS in Marignane is seeking a Rotor System Design Work Package Manager. You will lead a team focused on rotor systems for Super Puma, driving design evolution, substantiation, and technical support across manufacturing, flight tests, and maintenance.

The role operates in an agile environment within the MCT and squads, coordinating with stakeholders and ensuring technical standards. A senior engineer with proven leadership and international collaboration is ideal.

Qualifications

• Educated to 5 years' degree level (or equivalent) in mechanical engineering.
• Over 10 years of experience in Aeronautical industry and Engineering.
• Synthesis spirit, rigorous, product and operation oriented.
• Good leadership according to Airbus leadership model.
• Good communication skills and relationship, team spirit.
• Language Skills: Advanced level in English and negotiation level in French.
• More than 5 years of experience in AH design office.
• Experience in certification.
• Experience in leading and managing.
• Language skills: German.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and redesign of complex Rotor Systems, ensuring safety, performance, manufacturability and reliability.
• Steer the substantiation process through analysis and tests (flight, ground, bench).
• Produce critical technical documentation, including Permit to Fly discussions with airworthiness authorities.
• Drive maintenance engineering through updates to maintenance manuals for rotor components.
• Capitalize on knowledge to secure future rotor technologies.

Skills

Leadership

Project management

Stakeholder management

Rotor systems

English

Education

5-year mechanical engineering degree

Job description

Job Description:

We are looking for a Rotor System Design Work Package Manager for H225/H215 joining the Rotor System Design team in Marignane.

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 live 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 :

By joining our dynamic team, you will dive into the heart of helicopter performance. You will drive a variety of critical activities centered entirely on Rotor Systems of Super Puma to start: from pioneering designs evolution and managing change design activities including corrective measures following in service events, to providing hands-on technical support for manufacturing, assembly, the flight line, laboratories, and flight tests.
You will be part of an agile nWoW (new Way of Working) environment, operating within the Operational Squads and the MCT (Métier Core Team). You will join a diverse group of highly experienced experts who thrive on continuous improvement, knowledge exchange, and technical excellence in rotor dynamics.
As a Super Puma Work Package Manager at the core of the Rotor System Design team, you will coordinate an operational team of several dedicated specialists. You will be empowered to:

• Drive the team to deliver cutting-edge rotor products, systems, and services in strict alignment with the mission letter.
• Inspire team adherence to the mission, ensuring absolute clarity and focus at all times.
• Actively manage relationships and workload with key stakeholders and customers.
• Engage closely with the Metier to guarantee technical standards and methodologies.
• Lead and participate in sprint iterations, system reviews, demos, and retrospectives.
• Report strategic progress directly to Squad Leaders and the Head of Department.
• Manage our make or buy design activities

Your technical missions at the heart of Rotor Systems will include:

• Leading the design and redesign of complex Rotor Systems, driving detailed design phases while guaranteeing absolute compliance with safety, performance, manufacturability, assembly, and reliability requirements.
• Steering the substantiation process through rigorous analysis and active involvement in flight, ground, and bench tests (from request and preparation to real-time attendance and final conclusions).
• Producing critical technical documentation, including Permit to Fly documents, requiring direct and high-level technical discussions with EASA and other airworthiness authorities.
• Driving maintenance engineering through the creation, update, or extension of maintenance manuals for rotor components.
• Capitalizing on critical knowledge to secure the future of our rotor technologies.

As a central hub for rotor technology, your squad will constantly interface with:

• Key AH departments: Ground and Flight Tests, Material and Expertise Laboratories, Production Preparation, Loads, Thermal, and other critical systems (Blades, Flight Controls, Transmissions, Airframe, etc.).
• Purchasing, Support, Projects, and Program management.
• Various AH sites (Paris Le Bourget, Donauwörth).
• Subcontracting partners and global suppliers.

Depending on your expertise, you may be entrusted with the highly strategic role of TVE (Technical Verification Engineer). As a technical referent for Rotor Systems, you will hold the authority to validate critical deliverables, ensuring they perfectly align with our rigorous design rules and methodologies (HTECH technical reference). This position could be the best start point for an experienced engineer to develop his knowledge before joining either enlarged management position or expert path.

Your profile:

• Educated to 5 years' degree level (or equivalent) in mechanical engineering
• Over 10 years of experience into Aeronautical industry and Engineering
• Synthesis spirit, rigorous, product and operation oriented
• Good leadership according to Airbus leadership model
• Good communication skills and relationship, team spirit
• Language Skills: Advanced level in English and negotiation level in French

Any of the following skills & experience would be plus:

• More than 5 years of experience in AH design office
• Experience in certification
• Experience in leading and manageing
• Language skills: German

3 Reasons to join us:

Our Values: Six essential values form the core of our company. Defined for employees by employees, our Airbus values shape the DNA of our business, reflecting the unique mix of qualities found in each member of our global family.

Inclusion and diversity: We foster an inclusive and rewarding work environment, where everyone's diversity is valued and respected. An inclusive and diverse workforce is the engine of innovation at Airbus. It makes us unique and contributes to better problem-solving.

Compensation and benefits:

At Airbus, we build the future together and your success is our priority.

Expect a global, competitive, and transparent compensation package (including salaries, bonuses, profit-sharing, participation, and preferred share ownership plan), designed to reward the impact and performance you bring, both individually and collectively.

We invest in your complete well-being: professional development (training, mentoring, international mobility), health coverage, retirement, and a commitment to a supported work-life balance (parental support, flexibility).

And for your daily life, benefits that make a difference:

• A dynamic CSE (Social and Economic Committee) offering many advantages (company restaurant, children's leisure center, associations and sports complex, travel allowances, etc.).
• Transport facilities: Take advantage of our company shuttles or the reimbursement of your annual transport pass.

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 SAS

Employment Type:

Permanent

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Classe Emploi (France):

Classe G13

Experience Level:

Professional

Job Family:

Structure Design & Integration

Airbus is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.

Airbus is, and always has been, committed to equal opportunities for all. As such, we will never ask for any type of monetary exchange in the frame of a recruitment process. Any impersonation of Airbus to do so should be reported to [e-mail].

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