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Braking and Steering Control Systems Engineer – A350/A380
Location: Filton 3 days per week
Duration: Until 02/09/2025
Rate: £59.49 per hour Umbrella or £44.96 per hour PAYE
Role Overview
The A350 and A380 are two of the most high profile commercial aircraft in service today. Airbus is looking for energetic and dedicated people to support these aircraft’s Landing Gear Systems Development Activities, principally focused on the Braking Control and Wheel Steering Control Systems.
Every day you will be tested with new engineering challenges in support of our wide network of customers and will undertake exciting activities covering a broad variety of tasks, delivering integrated technical solutions. You will need to be able to work both independently and as an integral part of the Landing Gear Systems teams.
Braking and Steering Control Systems Engineer Responsibilities
- Work with and support the Engineering team to develop the technical solution
- Ensuring that Design Review deliverables will result in a mature and easily-Certifiable product, if applied correctly within Airbus and by the Supplier
- Ensuring that best practice and lessons learnt from other programmes are embedded
- Supporting and enabling the development of V&V planning throughout the design development life cycle
- Resolution of technical (in-service) incidents (concept design, drawing technical notes, instructions or specifications) ready to be manufactured or repaired; challenge customer request technically and economically
- Manage stakeholders effectively - report and communicate effectively
- Respond to and / or escalate issues and key messages to management / program
- Identify Risks and implement Mitigations and Opportunities in order to deliver to the Program
- Embrace the opportunity provided by the new digital technologies in the attempt to improve Operational Reliability of the products
- Comfortably and naturally engage with people, communicating clearly and in a timely manner
Braking and Steering Control Systems Engineer Skill Set
Essential
- Preferably 5-10 years experience working with Landing Gear System Engineer
- Pragmatic and technically oriented engineer required to solve and answers short term driven (in service queries, airworthiness queries, FAL queries) as well as long term issues (being able to manage investigation with suppliers for instance)
- Ability to use experience and willing to mentor younger engineers
- Might be required to manage subcontractors
