3DX Domain Lead - Quality & PLM Innovation

SECURITY CLEARANCE: Eligibility to gain UK SC Security Clearance

LOCATION: Filton (60% of your working week must be office based)

TYPE: Full time.

WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU

• Financial Reward: Competitive salary, annual profit share, contributory pension, share options, car leasing scheme, free onsite parking, season ticket loan, tax‑free technology scheme, discounted shopping and more.
• Work / Life Balance: 37‑hour week, flexible working around core hours and Friday afternoons off, hybrid working, up to 2 additional days per month as TOIL.
• Personal Development: Personalised development plan, Airbus Leadership University and unlimited access to 10,000+ e‑learning courses, internal mobility including international opportunities.
• Health & Wellbeing: Wellbeing benefits (including 24/7 online GP and mental health support), Employee Assistance Programme, discounted family health/dental insurance/eye tests, cycle‑to‑work scheme, on‑site canteen and coffee shop.
• Family and Caregiving: Life assurance, enhanced pay for parental leave (23 weeks at 100% pay), adoption/shared parental/caregiving leave.
• Inclusive Environment: Wellbeing room, Multi-faith room, Employee Representative Groups (Gender, LGBTQ+, International, Generational, Disability, Social & Cultural Diversity, Neurodiversity).

Information Management (IM) serves as a core function driving the company’s digital transformation through sustainable IT practices and innovative services like Skywise. By implementing critical digitalisation programs such as DDMS, the department connects thousands of global users daily within a secure environment. IM’s influence is pervasive across the entire business lifecycle, providing essential support from the initial design phase of an aircraft through to its final delivery and beyond.

As the 3DEXPERIENCE Domain Lead for Quality, you will join the "Product & Simulation" team within the "One PLM" Product Service Line, reporting functionally to the Head of Product. The primary objective of this organization is to deliver a single, harmonised set of IS/IT tools to support aircraft development, industrial set‑up, and ongoing services. This role is central to the strategy of developing Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, specifically focusing on Product, Process, and Resources across Manufacturing, Quality, and Support sectors.

HOW YOU WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE TEAM

• Conduct in‑depth discovery meetings, targeting the understanding, capture, and identification of the complex business requirements and operational objectives of the Engineering area as well as Support, Services and Quality.
• Secure consistent planning and validate Functional Architects and Urbanists commitments with Business.
• Follow‑up implementation deliveries, functional tests, deployment and method writing for the domain.
• Define and develop the required functional and technical specification documents to be reviewed with stakeholders and product team members.
• Manage realization of new IT solutions in a multinational organisation following a joint approach with business and other technical experts based on the agile framework (SAFe) to ensure the integrity of the solution delivered.
• Ensure collaboration between Product Management teams and development resources during product development and implementation to ensure integrity of the solution delivered.
• Identify areas for improvement in business processes providing possible IT solutions compliant with the IT strategy.
• Support the IT Product Manager in the Product/Service Planning based on customer and functional/technical requirements.
• Produce documentation of current challenges, future requirements, and benefits in a manner appropriate for the customer.
• Monitor external business trends in order to better challenge the business requirements.
• Collaborate with project managers and the operational efficiency department to track and facilitate the rollout of new solutions across various Airbus sites.
• Manage Run Mode phase of deployment to support customers users ramp‑up and replacement of legacy products.
• Ensure synchronization with software publisher and integrators.
• Manage Task Force and escalation procedures if required, including mobilisation of various actors.

This role will involve some travel for business (once a month) and as such you must be able to travel accordingly.

ABOUT YOU

• Proven experience in functional architecture, project management, solution engineering or another relevant field.
• Bachelor's or master's degree in engineering or equivalent.
• Ideally, knowledge in the field of Design, Manufacturing, Support and Services, or in the following domains: Manufacturing Engineering, Shop Floor Execution, Industrial Modelling and Simulation, Configuration Management, Quality, Configured Digital Mock‑Up (DMU), Product Lifecycle Management, Engineering IS, Architecture, Maintenance and Repair.
• Ability to lead a project from start to finish and deliver results.
• Ability to drive improvement and innovation.
• Knowledge of IT tools customization and architecture, IT and business strategy alignment, IT product design and product development, IT business change management.
• Customer and stakeholder management skills.

Required skills: Configuration Management, IT Strategy, Product Design, Project Management, Manufacturing Engineer.

Required languages: English.

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.