VIE 2025 - Fuselage Daily Repairs Workflow Manager (m/f) - Wichita, KS

Airbus is committed to providing reasonable accommodations as an Equal Opportunity Employer to applicants with disabilities. If you require assistance or an accommodation to complete your application, please contact us at USCareers@airbus.com

• Notice: Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal
• Notice: Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination (English)
• Aviso: Transparencia en el Pago No Discriminacion (Spanish)

Job Description:

Company Description

Airbus is a leading aircraft manufacturer with the most modern and comprehensive family of airliners on the market, ranging in capacity from 100 to more than 500 seats. Airbus champions innovative technologies and offers some of the world's most fuel efficient and quiet aircraft. Airbus has sold over 13.800 aircraft to more than 360 customers worldwide. Airbus has achieved more than 10,000 deliveries since the first Airbus aircraft entered into service. Headquartered in Toulouse, France.

The Volunteer for International Experience (VIE) program is an international program sponsored by the French Ministry of Economy, Finance and Employment, open to Airbus to offer young professionals the opportunity to have valuable paid work experience abroad in a technical or
business function. The VIE is a specific contract, under Business France's eligibility criteria.

VIE Main Requirements:
- European Union citizens (plus Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Monaco), graduates up to and including 28 years old.
- Have fulfilled military obligations for their country, if any.
- Fluent in English.
For more information: http://www.civiweb.com/international/default.html (in English, German, Italian and Spanish)

To be eligible for work in the US under J-1 Visa, you must fulfil the requirements of the sponsor selected by Airbus for this mission, the French American Chamber of Commerce (FACC).

For more information, please consult the FACC website.

An opportunity for a VIE Structure Repair Engineer (m/f) - Workflow Manager - has arisen within the Fuselage Daily Repairs team at Airbus Commercial Aircraft in Wichita Engineering antenna (US, Kansas).

As the selected candidate, you will be based in Wichita - US, Kansas.

Your contract will be for a duration of 18 months.

Description of the job

We keep them flying at any time and all around the world !

When A/C structure is damaged, it requires a quick restoration ...

Typically, passengers are waiting to take-off, and Airlines are losing money...

We are developing engineers' ability to establish and deliver, for all fleets, timely and consistent solutions to the technical daily queries raised by the customer support for Technical issues in operations.

You will join a team which provides the repair instructions (definition and justification) following damages reported by airlines (linked to events or during maintenance operations).

The Repair definition must be delivered within deadlines set by customer support in accordance with the airlines requirements, in order to guarantee the aircraft return to service in due time.

The portfolio of customer queries is clustered in three specific Aircraft structure areas aligned to the Airbus European work sharing, the fuselage being split from nose to tail between a French, a German and a Spanish Design Office responsibility with whom you will have to interact daily.

You will also be the interface between worldwide Airbus Customer support teams and Wichita Engineering team.

This position will require a security clearance or will require being eligible for clearance by the recognized authorities.

Tasks & accountability

As workflow manager you will be responsible for the distribution & follow-up of customer queries within your engineering centre.

This is a key role for the repair engineering teams in the frame of our 24/7 support involving Airbus European and Offshore centres and subcontractors around the world.

Your main tasks and responsibilities will include for daily operations:

• Assessing the customer daily queries with respect to data completeness, workload, complexity, queries that can be steered from global inflow or allocated by other teams.

• Allocating them to the appropriate team members and suppliers, anticipating impacts on target dates in line with respective office hours of each.

• Monitoring progress and ensuring On Time Delivery is met.

• Defining priorities in cooperation with European Workflow Managers, Customer Services and Airworthiness Office departments under "watchtower" concept.

• Supporting team capacity daily assessment, anticipating critical gaps and/or alerting line manager and partners.

On top you will also be in charge to support the Head of Fuselage Daily Repair with the following activities:

• Agreeing activities in terms of volume and major milestones with relevant stakeholders (yearly plan) and steering the volume of queries to ensure commitment is met.

• Securing the yearly resource planning matches the capacity need considering workload assumptions from Customer Services and general phases throughout the year, e.g. minimum workforce available for EoY break.

• Identifying and leading improvement initiatives to the workflow process looking for transverse harmonization.

• Measuring the key performance indicators such as OTD (On Time Delivery) and RFT (Right First Time = On quality Delivery), effort per unit to anticipate cost relevant effects, triggering relevant root cause assessments and corrective actions in case of deviation and/or anticipation of changes.

Required skills

As the successful candidate you are able to demonstrate the following skills and competences:

• Holds a Mechanical Engineeringdegree

• Understanding of Design and Stress Analysis

• Knowledge in Aircraft structure

In addition you are showing the following abilities:

• Ability to perform in a high pressure reactive environment and to quickly make decisions

• Ability to interface with others and discuss technical matters clearly and simply

• Ability to collaborate well within a team, to work independently when required

• Customer mindset and solution oriented

• Good communication and influencing skills

• Negotiation level in English is mandatory

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.

Contact Data

Please apply on line for this vacancy on line at our careers site (www.airbus.com/careers) with your CV and cover letter in English attached.
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.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Description du poste :

Le programme Volontariat International (VIE) est un programme international sponsorise par le Ministere francais de l'Economie, des Finances et du Travail et qui permet a Airbus d'offrir a de jeunes professionnels la possibilite d'acquerir une experience remuneree et valorisante a l'etranger, dans un metier technique ou commercial.

Le programme VIE est un contrat specifique, en vertu des criteres d'eligibilite de Business France.

Principaux criteres d'exigibilite du VIE:

- Etre citoyen(ne) de l'Union Europeenne (plus Norvege, Islande et Liechtenstein), et candidat(e) diplome(e) age(e) de 28 ans maximum.

- Avoir accompli les obligations militaires de son pays.

- Niveau avance en anglais.

Pour plus d'informations : https://www.civiweb.com/FR/le-volontariat-international/conditions-du-VIE.aspx (en anglais, en allemand, en italien et en espagnol).

Pour pouvoir travailler aux Etats-Unis avec le visa J-1, vous devez remplir les conditions du sponsor selectionne par Airbus pour cette mission, la Chambre de commerce franco-americaine (FACC).

Pour plus d'informations, veuillez consulter le site de la FACC.

Un poste d'ingenieur reparateur de structures VIE (h/f) - gestionnaire de flux de travail - est a pourvoir au sein de l'equipe Reparations journalieres de fuselage d'Airbus Commercial Aircraft a l'antenne d'ingenierie de Wichita (US, Kansas).

En tant que candidat selectionne, vous serez base a Wichita - US, Kansas.

Votre contrat sera d'une duree de 18 mois.

Description du poste:

Nous les faisons voler a tout moment et dans le monde entier !

Lorsque la structure A/C est endommagee, elle necessite une restauration rapide ...

En general, les passagers attendent le decollage et les compagnies aeriennes perdent de l'argent...

Nous developpons la capacite des ingenieurs a etablir et a fournir, pour toutes les flottes, des solutions rapides et coherentes aux questions techniques quotidiennes soulevees par le support client pour les problemes techniques en exploitation.

Vous rejoindrez une equipe qui fournit les instructions de reparation (definition et justification) suite aux dommages signales par les compagnies aeriennes (lies a des evenements ou lors d'operations de maintenance).

La definition de la reparation doit etre livree dans les delais fixes par le support client, conformement aux exigences des compagnies aeriennes, afin de garantir la remise en service de l'avion en temps voulu.

Le portefeuille des demandes des clients est regroupe dans trois zones specifiques de la structure de l'avion, alignees sur le partage du travail europeen d'Airbus, le fuselage etant reparti du nez a la queue entre les bureaux d'etudes francais, allemand et espagnol avec lesquels vous devrez interagir quotidiennement.

Vous serez egalement l'interface entre les equipes de support client d'Airbus dans le monde entier et l'equipe d'ingenierie de Wichita.

Ce poste necessitera une habilitation de securite ou devra etre eligible a une habilitation par les autorites reconnues.

Taches et responsabilites:

En tant que gestionnaire du flux de travail, vous serez responsable de la distribution et du suivi des demandes des clients au sein de votre centre d'ingenierie.

Il s'agit d'un role cle pour les equipes d'ingenierie de reparation dans le cadre de notre support 24/7 impliquant les centres europeens et offshore d'Airbus et les sous-traitants du monde entier.

Vos principales taches et responsabilites comprendront pour les operations quotidiennes :

• L'evaluation des requetes quotidiennes des clients en ce qui concerne l'exhaustivite des donnees, la charge de travail, la complexite, les requetes qui peuvent etre dirigees a partir de l'afflux global ou attribuees par d'autres equipes.
• Les attribuer aux membres de l'equipe et aux fournisseurs appropries, en anticipant les impacts sur les dates cibles en fonction des heures de bureau respectives de chacun.
• Suivre les progres et s'assurer que les delais de livraison sont respectes.
• Definir les priorites en cooperation avec les gestionnaires de flux de travail europeens, les services a la clientele et les departements du bureau de la navigabilite, selon le concept de " tour de controle ".
• Soutenir l'evaluation quotidienne des capacites de l'equipe, anticiper les lacunes critiques et/ou alerter le superieur hierarchique et les partenaires.

En outre, vous serez egalement charge(e) de soutenir le responsable de la reparation quotidienne des fuselages dans les activites suivantes :

• Convenir des activites en termes de volume et d'etapes importantes avec les parties prenantes concernees (plan annuel) et gerer le volume des demandes pour garantir le respect des engagements.
• S'assurer que la planification annuelle des ressources correspond au besoin de capacite en tenant compte des hypotheses de charge de travail du service clientele et des phases generales tout au long de l'annee, par exemple, la main-d'uvre minimale disponible pour la pause EoY.
• Identifier et mener des initiatives d'amelioration du processus de flux de travail en recherchant une harmonisation transversale.
• Mesurer les indicateurs de performance cles tels que OTD (On Time Delivery) et RFT (Right First Time = On quality Delivery), l'effort par unite pour anticiper les effets sur les couts, declencher les evaluations des causes profondes et les actions correctives en cas de deviation et/ou d'anticipation des changements.

Competences requises:

En tant que candidat(e) retenu(e), vous etes en mesure de demontrer les aptitudes et competences suivantes :

• Titulaire d'un diplome d'ingenieur en mecanique
• Comprehension de la conception et de l'analyse des contraintes
• Connaissance de la structure des aeronefs

En outre, vous faites preuve des capacites suivantes :

• Capacite a fonctionner dans un environnement reactif a haute pression et a prendre rapidement des decisions.
• Capacite a interagir avec les autres et a discuter de sujets techniques de maniere claire et simple
• Capacite a collaborer au sein d'une equipe et a travailler de maniere independante si necessaire.
• Esprit client et orientation vers les solutions
• Bonne communication et capacite d'influence
• Anglais: negociation

Ce poste exige d'etre conscient de tout risque potentiel de conformite et de s'engager a agir avec integrite, ce qui constitue le fondement de la reussite, de la reputation et de la croissance durable de la societe.

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:

Employment Type:

Experience Level:

Remote Type:

Job Family: