Landing Gear Advanced Test Specialist in Bristol

SECURITY CLEARANCE: You will be subject to a BPSS check (including a criminal record check).

TRAVEL REQUIRED: Occasional travel within the UK and internationally.

LOCATION: Filton (80% 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, shopping discounts and much more.
• Work / Life Balance: 35 hour week, flexible working around core hours and Friday afternoons off, hybrid working, option to buy/sell holiday.
• Personal Development: Personalised development plan, Airbus Leadership University and unlimited access to 10,000+ E-learning courses, internal mobility including international opportunities.
• Health & Wellbeing: Bupa health insurance (including assisted fertility treatments and gender dysphoria & reassignment support), wellbeing benefits (including 24/7 online GP and mental health support), discounted family health/dental insurance/eye tests, cycle-to-work scheme, on-site canteen and coffee shop, lunchtime yoga/meditation.
• Family and Caregiving: Life assurance, enhanced pay for maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave and caregiving and purpose built maternity rooms on site.
• Inclusive Environment: Wellbeing room, Multi-faith room, Employee Representative Groups (Gender, LGBTQ+, International, Generational, Disability, Social & Cultural Diversity, Neurodiversity).

Job Summary:

A vacancy has arisen at Airbus Filton in Bristol UK for the role of Advanced Test Specialist in the Landing Gear Test Team providing guidance and leadership to perform Test and Analytics Activity and to act as a reference to other parts of the Landing Gear Test Team to define strategies for New and Continuous Development activities.

Activities in Landing Gear Test are wide and varied encompassing Rig Testing, Flight Testing and In Service Support and our Advanced Test Specialists are required to have experience in some or all of these fields in order to be able to act as a referent.

We are looking for someone with some relevant Avionic or Hyd Mech experience, who is motivated by Innovation and problem solving through collaboration. Someone who will develop with us over the coming decade to achieve our strategic objective of applying new techniques to Landing Gear Testing.

Are you someone who enjoys getting hands-on with our products, interrogating data generated on them, and rigorously assessing their performance? Are you someone who needs to see tangible results - excited by technical challenges, fault finding and resolving technical problems with creative solutions with a digital mind-set?

HOW YOU WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE TEAM:

• Develop test strategies for laboratory testing that align with project objectives including establishing requirements for test facilities to meet objectives.
• Collaborate with engineering teams, system designers, and project managers to identify testing needs and requirements on specific projects or developments.
• Define the scope, sequence, and schedule of Laboratory testing strategy, ensuring to have an optimised lab & flight test plan.
• Support development and certification of landing gear systems through integrated testing and analysis.
• Establish and improve the maturity of aircraft systems through testing and the collaboration with other engineering teams.
• Support design reviews, offering technical guidance and formal validation of test requirements, interfaces, support to V&V and testing activities.
• Identify, capture and clearly report technical risks for project attention, especially robust integration and architecture activities. Actively contribute to mitigation or contingency plans.

ABOUT YOU:

• Good Experience of running projects at a senior level and engaging with stakeholders.
• Great interpersonal skills and capable of working as a team and autonomously.
• Knowledge of landing gear systems or other aircraft systems.
• Knowledge of project management tools, techniques and governance for complex projects.
• Knowledge of data analysis.
• Validation and Verification process knowledge (V&V).
• English – Negotiation level.

How we can support you:

Many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time. Please talk to us at the interview about the flexibility you need and we’ll always do our best to accommodate your request. Please let us know if you need us to make any adjustments for the selection process – you can share this with your Talent Acquisition Partner if you are invited to interview. Examples may include (but not exclusive to) accessible facilities; auxiliary aids; room layout, etc. Any information disclosed will be treated in the strictest confidence.

As a Disability Confident Employer, Airbus UK will offer an interview to any applicant that considers themselves to have a disability or long-term condition and meets the minimum criteria of the role (as set out in the job advert). To opt in, just select the option during your application submission and our Talent Acquisition team will contact you.

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.

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.

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.