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Flight Management System Design Work Package Leader

Airbus

On-site
Toulouse Area
Full-time
Senior
Manager
5+ yrs
Salary not listedPosted 2w ago

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Job description

Airbus is hiring a Flight Management System Design Work Package Leader — a full-time, based in Toulouse Area role. Apply directly on Airbus's careers page below.

ork Package Leader pour la conception du Système de Gestion du Vol (FMS) A400M (f/h)

Location: Toulouse Area

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Job Description:

Airbus Commercial Aircraft is looking for an A400M Flight Management System (FMS) Design Work Package Leader (f/m) to join our E2E Mission & Functions department (1YAX) based in Toulouse, France.


You will join the FMS & AN design office (1YAXD), responsible for the design of Flight Management and Airport Navigation systems for all Airbus aircrafts of today and tomorrow.


Your working environment:


Global capital of aeronautics and European capital for space research, Toulouse is a dynamic city in the southwest of France served by an international airport. Ideally located between the Mediterranean sea and the Atlantic ocean and close to the Pyrenees mountains, it offers plenty of options for outdoor activities!


 

How we care for you:


  • Financial rewards: Attractive salary, agreements on success and profit sharing schemes, employee savings plan abounded by Airbus and employee stock purchase plan on a voluntary basis.
  • Work / Life Balance:  Extra days-off for special occasions, holiday transfer option, a Staff council offering many social, cultural and sport activities and other services.
  • Wellbeing / Health: Complementary health insurance coverage (disability, invalidity, death). Depending on the site: health services center, concierge services, gym, carpooling application.
  • Individual development: Great upskilling opportunities and development prospects with unlimited access to +10.000 e-learning courses to develop your employability, certifications, expert career path, accelerated development programmes, national and international mobility.

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.


Your challenges:

  • Scoping and Requirements Definition: Liaise with internal customers and stakeholders to understand, analyze, and address development requests for the A400M FMS.
  • System Design Leadership: Lead the definition activities and design processes for the next A400M Flight Management System standards.
  • Supplier and Subcontractor Management: Manage and oversee a major multi-national supplier and various subcontractors involved in the Work Package.
  • Transnational Coordination and Interfaces: Drive a wide network of multidisciplinary interfaces, including laboratory and flight test teams, aircraft programs, safety, certification, and airworthiness.
  • Process Improvement and Innovation: Support the optimization of design processes, drive knowledge capitalization, and foster new ways of working within the design office.

Your boarding pass:

  • Background in Engineering or equivalent, specializing in aeronautics, embedded systems, or avionics.
  • Required Experience: Significant experience in system design (5 years min) with a strong background in flight management/guidance & control, software/hardware specification, or flight physics/aircraft performance.
  • Technical Skills: Mastery of avionics systems engineering (preferably FMS), specification of cockpit multi-systems functions, with valuable assets in airline/military flight operations, customer support, or systems testing.
  • Soft Skills: Strong persuasion & influencing skills, decision-making ability, autonomy, a proactive approach to strict timescales, and the flexibility to drive the bigger picture within transnational teams.
  • Negotiation level in English is mandatory; negotiation level in French is highly desirable.

Not a 100% match? No worries! Airbus supports your personal growth with customized development solutions.


 

Take your career to a new level and apply online now!

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 Operations SAS

Employment Type:

Permanent

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Classe Emploi (France): Classe G13

Experience Level:

Professional

Job Family:

Vehicle Mission & Control

By submitting your CV or application you are consenting to Airbus using and storing information about you for monitoring purposes relating to your application or future employment. This information will only be used by Airbus.
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 emsom@airbus.com.

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.

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The required skills for Flight Management System Design Work Package Leader at Airbus include: Embedded Systems, English.

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Flight Management System Design Work Package Leader at Airbus is a Senior / Manager level position.

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