Eurodrone Store Integration Coordinator and Technical Approver

Airbus Defence and Space is looking for a Eurodrone Store Integration Coordinator and Technical Approver (d/f/m). The armament team is responsible for the integration of external weapons and stores onto the new Eurodrone aircraft. Weapon/store integration is a multidisciplinary task, involving the majority of all aircraft systems and design disciplines. The position of one Weapon/Store Integration Coordinator and Technical Approver is currently vacant.

Your location: Located about an hour's drive north of Munich, Manching is an up-and-coming market town that offers a wide range of leisure and cultural activities. Here, you can enjoy the quality of life in the countryside while the pleasures of nearby cities are still within easy reach.

Your benefits

• Attractive salary and special payments
• 30 days holidays and extra days-off for special occasions
• Excellent upskilling opportunities and great international, group wide development prospects
• Special benefits: employer-funded pension, employee stock options, discounted car leasing, special conditions for insurances, subsidies for public transport, employee benefits at cooperating companies
• On-site facilities: Medical officer for check-ups and other health-related services, canteen and cafeteria, kindergarten close to the site
• Compatibility of family & work (job sharing, part-time models, flexible working hours, individual timeout)
• Working in a diverse environment, with more than 140 nationalities, where every voice is heard

Your tasks

The Eurodrone Store Integration Coordinator and ATA 96-00 Technical Approver, for the scope of the individual Stores Integrations onto the Eurodrone platform, acts as primary technical manager to Chief Engineering to ensure that the overall Eurodrone system architecture and system design, in coherence with airworthiness, safety, functional and operational needs, is suitable for the individual store integration and its safe separation (e.g., stores: general purpose bombs, guided bombs, air to surface and air to air missiles, pods, tanks, etc.); is accountable for authoring the Platform to Store Interface Control Documents (ICDs), which represents the overarching and holistic technical specification for the individual store integration onto Eurodrone, and ensures the dissemination of general way of working and the coordination for its review, validation and cascade into Eurodrone design, across the entire Chief Engineering and Engineering organization; is responsible to drive the platform/store compatibility workflow across all project phases - e.g., during preliminary design, detailed design, integration, ground and flight tests, including preparation and review of related documentation and reporting; acts as primary technical management reference to Main Subcontractors and Weapon/Store Suppliers as well as to all Airbus internal functions for all matters related to store integration; leads the preparation, coordination, and consistency of technical proposals and bids in support to programme, contractual and commercial stakeholders, including the detailed store integration planning across all impacted technical disciplines; acts as Technical Approver for ATA 96-00 'Stores' under delegation of Head of Weapon Systems and represents the Design Office in all related fora, including Certification Qualification Panel with OCCAR and Eurodrone Participating States (PPS); functionally leads a team to accomplish the previous tasks.

Desired skills and qualifications

• Master in Aeronautical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Physics
• Several years professional experience in Armament or Systems Engineering, as well as professional experience in the Eurodrone programme
• Professional experience in certification and qualification of aircraft systems
• Knowledge in other weapon systems (Eurofighter, Tornado) will be advantageous
• Knowledge in: DOORS, MBSE (Cameo), MIL-STDs for weapon integration (e.g., MIL-STD 1760)
• Analytic, structured, and autonomous way of working
• Teamworker attitude
• Willingness to learn, reliability, and resilience
• Business fluent in English and German

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Company: Airbus Defence and Space GmbH
Employment Type: Permanent
Experience Level: Professional
Job Family: Chief Engineering & Architecture

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