Blades Senior Aircraft Technician

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Job Description

Airbus Helicopters is looking for a Blades Senior Aircraft Technician to join our Blades Repair team based in Grand Prairie, TX.

Your duties will consist of fully understanding the methods and procedures to perform the following functions:

• Assist and lead other technicians in a positive/team manner.
• Perform incoming inspections.
• Execute repair tasks and final completion procedures, ensuring a quality product.

Meet the Team

From building to servicing the next generation of aerospace, our team focuses on quality, productivity and efficiency. We ensure the highest quality of care and safety is built into each aircraft we assemble and maintain. Our team members make it happen.

Your Working Environment

A suburb just outside the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area is home to Airbus Helicopters U.S. regional headquarters, where we have more than 1,000 employees. Check out one of the seven professional sports teams that also call Dallas home - you may even see a special, custom Airbus helicopter dedicated to the Dallas Cowboys flying during home games.

How We Care for You

• Financial Rewards: Competitive base salary, incentive compensation which may include profit sharing schemes, retirement savings plan and the ability to participate in an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (“ESOP”).
• Work/Life Balance: Paid time off including personal time, holidays and a generous paid parental leave program.
• Health & Welfare: Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical (traditional and high-deductible health plans), prescription, dental, vision, life, disability, Employee Assistance Plan (“EAP”) and other supplemental benefit coverages.
• Individual Development: Upskilling and development opportunities through our global Leadership University, including unlimited access to 10,000+ e-learning courses focusing on ways to develop your employability, certifications, career path as well as the opportunity to participate in accelerated development programmes and both national and international mobility.

At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and accessibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

Your Challenges

Primary Responsibilities

Technical: Tear Down, Clean, Inspect, Repair, Assemble and Closeout Components: 75%

• Clear understanding of methods and procedures on incoming inspections.
• Proficient on the use of all hand tools needed to execute inspection.
• Proficient on cleaning and stripping when required performing the repairs on all blade types.
• Proficient on repair techniques for return to service of piece parts.
• Proficient on assembly of finished products.
• Proficient on closing out all final paper work and quality gates for QA creation of 8130-3.
• Proficient in creating technical emails/reports to AH and AHD.
• Maintain a high attention to detail.
• Ensures completed work complies with customer specifications, FAA regulations, manufacturer’s applicable maintenance manuals, blueprints, RDAS, A.D.’s, etc.
• Maintain responsibility to ensure scrap levels are kept to a minimum.

Customer Interface: 10%

• Correctly identifies customers (internal and external) and understands their requirements proactively.
• Looks through the eyes of the customers and goes the extra mile to serve them.
• Seeks regular feedback from customers (internal/external) and acts upon it.
• Enthusiastic to support others and achieve agreed levels of service.
• Thinks business/customer interests rather than local/individual interest.

Logistics: 5%

• When aware of issues, speak up early and make them visible.
• Sees problems as opportunities for improvement.
• Listens respectfully and shows appreciation when challenges are reported by another team member.
• Dedicates necessary time to analyze the root causes.
• Seeks assistance when unable to resolve issues independently.

Accountability: 5%

• Ensures own role and responsibilities are clear.
• Takes relevant decisions at their own level and ownership for their implementation.
• Sticks to commitments on time/cost/quality.
• Announce as early as possible when commitments cannot be kept.
• Stops to fix the root causes of issues to ensure they do not reoccur.

Objectives: 5%

• Knows, applies and promotes agreed standards.
• Reacts immediately when there is a deviation from the standard.
• Persists in the face of obstacles, tackles tasks through to successful completion.
• Makes regular checks to be accurate & reviews own work, does not compromise safety or quality.

Additional Responsibilities

• Other duties as assigned.

Your Boarding Pass

Education

Required

• High School Diploma or Equivalent experience.

Preferred

• A&P License.
• Some trade school.

Experience

Required

• Strong expertise on a minimum of 2 Airbus blade component models.
• Minimum five (5) years of experience in aviation (An A&P or a Train the Trainer Certificate can be substituted for 1 year).
• Experience with resolving technical issues, including those involving AH/AHD.
• Ability to work in a team in diverse / multiple stakeholder environments.
• Experience with management skills.
• Recognized expert in blade repairs.
• Ability to train and foster team members.

Preferred

• None.

Licensure/Certifications

Required

• None.

Preferred

• FAA Airframe Certificate or equivalent.

Travel Required

• Less than 10% Domestic and International.

Citizenship

• Authorized to Work in the US.

Clearance

• None.

Physical Requirements

• Onsite or remote: 90% Onsite.
• Vision: able to see and read computer screens and other electronic equipment with screens, able to read documents, reports and engineering drawings. Daily.
• Hearing: able to participate in conversations in person and via teleconference or phone and to hear sounds on the production floor including safety warnings or alarms. Daily.
• Speaking: able to speak in conversations and meetings, deliver information and participate in communications.
• Equipment Operation: able to operate most office and personal electronic equipment and some tools including production tools such as hydraulic lifts. Daily.
• Carrying: able to carry documents, tools, drawings, electronic equipment up to 50lbs/23kgs. Daily.
• Lifting: able to lift documents, tools, drawings, electronic equipment up to 50lbs/23kgs. Daily.
• Pushing / Pulling: able to push and pull small office furniture and some equipment and tools. Daily.
• Sitting: able to sit for long periods of time in meetings, working on the computer. Daily.
• Squatting / Kneeling: able to squat or kneel to retrieve or replace items stored on low shelving.
• Standing: able to stand for discussions in offices or on the production floor. Daily.
• Travel: able to travel independently and at short notice. Possible once or twice a year.
• Walking: able to walk through office and production areas including uneven surfaces. Daily.
• Personal Protective Equipment required: Required PPE includes, but is not limited to, Safety Shoes, Safety Glasses, Hearing Protection, Respirators/Masks, and/or Protective Gloves as required by site and/or customer site.
• Administrative position only PPE required: Steel-toed shoes are required for all shop floor visits, appropriate hearing/eye protection may also be required when visiting the shop floor.

Equal Opportunity

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or other legally protected status.

As a leader in our field, Airbus Helicopters, Inc. provides relocation assistance for qualified positions and a comprehensive compensation and benefits package.

As a matter of policy, Airbus Helicopters, Inc. does not sponsor visas for US positions unless specified. Only applicants with current work authorization will be considered.

Airbus Helicopters, Inc. does not offer tenured or guaranteed employment. Employment with Airbus is at will, meaning either the company or the employee can terminate the employment relationship at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice.

NOTE: Airbus Helicopters, Inc. reserves the right to revise or change job duties and responsibilities as the need arises. This position description does not constitute a written or implied contract of employment.

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.