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#ET21 Ingénieur Fonction USAGE pour la surveillance Hélicoptère (F/H)

Airbus · Marseille Area, FR
Clearance Level
BPSS
Salary Range
Competitive
Employment Type
FULL TIME
Work Style
onsite

// Role Summary

Airbus Helicopters is seeking a HELICOPTER USAGE FUNCTION ENGINEER to join their Avionics System Engineering Department in Marignane, France. Contribute to the future of aeronautics by ensuring the safety and operational optimization of helicopter fleets.

// Key Responsibilities

  • Define, develop, and monitor helicopter HUMS/USAGE functions.
  • Manage system availability, reliability, and data recording techniques.
  • Pilot the development lifecycle, defining milestones and maturity reviews.
  • Provide detailed technical specifications for system implementation.
  • Requires a minimum of 3 years' experience in system engineering or data acquisition systems.
  • Fluent English (B2 minimum) and strong analytical, rigor, collaboration, and solution-oriented skills are essential.

// Role Specification

About the Role

Airbus Helicopters is looking for a HELICOPTER USAGE FUNCTION ENGINEER (f/h) to join the Avionics System Engineering Department based in Marignane, France. This is an opportunity to shape the future of aeronautics and contribute to life-saving missions through our helicopters. Marignane, a major industrial site near Marseille and Aix-en-Provence, offers a high-tech, inclusive, and environmentally respectful work environment, providing a unique professional experience at the heart of helicopter manufacturing.

Your Future Missions

As part of our team, you will be involved in missions focused on the definition, development, and monitoring of helicopter health and usage monitoring functions (HUMS / USAGE systems). You will contribute to the Avionics System Engineering Department's efforts to ensure the safety and operational optimization of our helicopter fleets. Our department designs advanced onboard and offboard solutions that analyze the health of critical aircraft components in real-time and predict failures.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Availability and Reliability Management: Monitor input/output data availability and reliability, and effectively manage surveillance system redundancies.
  • Recording Techniques: Define and apply multi-source data recording techniques (flight data, video, voice, etc.).
  • Lifecycle Management: Identify necessary product development lifecycle activities to ensure a level of confidence and assurance consistent with aeronautical regulations and program requirements.
  • Milestones and Maturity Reviews: Define checkpoints and conduct associated technical maturity reviews, aligning with development phases and project milestones (gates).
  • System Architecture: Provide detailed specifications and technical data for system elements to enable their implementation in accordance with defined architectures (models and views) and allocated requirements.

Your Profile

Minimum Professional Experience:

  • A minimum of 3 years of confirmed experience in system engineering or in surveillance and data acquisition system architectures.

Technical Expertise:

  • Proficiency in the system development lifecycle (ARP4754A, DO-178, or DO-254 certification standards are a plus).
  • Solid skills in system architecture modeling (MBSE, architecture views) and requirements management.
  • In-depth knowledge of recording technologies (data, voice, video).

Language:

  • Fluent English (minimum B2 level required for technical documentation and exchanges).

Soft Skills:

  • Analytical and Synthesis Skills: Essential for understanding complex surveillance data architectures.
  • Rigor: Crucial for scrupulously adhering to safety and certification processes.
  • Collaboration Spirit: Ability to work effectively within multidisciplinary teams and on complex programs.
  • Solution-Oriented: Aptitude for pragmatically resolving technical integration and acquisition challenges.

Why Join Us?

  • Cutting-Edge Technology: Contribute to developing critical surveillance functions (HUMS/USAGE) that redefine aeronautical safety and predictive maintenance.
  • Concrete Daily Impact: Your engineering solutions directly ensure the airworthiness and reliability of our helicopters during rescue and protection missions.
  • Evolution and Excellence: Join a major global industrial hub offering leading simulation tools and rich career development opportunities.

Our Values

Airbus's core values shape our business identity. We foster an inclusive and valuing work environment where diversity is appreciated and respected, driving innovation and problem-solving.

Remuneration and Benefits

Airbus offers a competitive and transparent global compensation package (including salaries, bonuses, profit-sharing, and stock options) designed to reward individual and collective impact and performance. We invest in your comprehensive development: professional development (training, mentoring, international mobility), health coverage, retirement plans, and a commitment to work-life balance (parental support, flexibility). Daily benefits include a dynamic employee representative committee (CSE) offering various advantages (company restaurant, childcare, sports complex, travel allowances, etc.) and transport facilities (company shuttles or reimbursement of annual transport pass).

Our Recruitment Process

  1. Apply online.
  2. Application review by the recruitment team.
  3. Security clearance questionnaire completion (required for our positions).
  4. Recruitment interviews: HR interview and technical interview with your future manager.
  5. Receive the job offer!

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.