Blades Senior Aircraft Technician

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 [email protected] Notice: Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal Notice: Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination   (English) Aviso: Transparencia en el Pago No Discriminación  (Spanish) 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