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Préparateur méthodes H175 (H/F)

Clearance Level
BPSS
Salary Range
Competitive
Employment Type
FULL TIME
Work Style
onsite

// Role Summary

Join Airbus Helicopters as a Methods Preparer for H160/H175 Airframe in Marignane. This role focuses on new installations and modifications, ensuring production is seamless and supporting continuous improvement.

// Key Responsibilities

  • Lead industrialization processes, including budget management and risk assessment.
  • Collaborate with design offices and production to validate definitions and support first assemblies.
  • Develop and update manufacturing processes, documentation, and standards.
  • Manage deviations and ensure resolution of production issues.
  • Support production activities, including supplier relations and activity transfers.
  • Utilize CATIA and SAP/MES tools for process definition and management.

// Role Specification

Methods Preparer - AIRFRAME H160/H175 H/F

Embark on your adventure with a world-leading, digitally focused company at the forefront of research and innovation. Airbus Helicopters in Marignane has an exciting opportunity for an Airframe Methods Preparer specializing in the H160/H175 models.

Role Overview:

This position requires a comprehensive approach, managing new installations and modifications across the perimeter with a focus on cost, quality, timeline, and safety. You will pilot industrialization efforts, including budget control, and collaborate closely with the design office to validate definitions and prototypes. A key aspect of this role is to ensure that modifications are implemented with minimal disruption to production.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Oversee industrialization projects, including budget management and launch of tooling after risk assessment.
  • Collaborate with the design office, critique and validate definitions, and manage 3D mock-ups.
  • Define and create assembly operations following program standards.
  • Support workshops and participate in initial assemblies to ensure industrialization maturity.
  • Manage deviations and oversee resolution processes.
  • Pilot improvement projects and ensure seamless support to production.
  • Manage STL/Datapack and supplier relations, including potential activity transfers.
  • Contribute to collaborative design and industrialization efforts, integrating best manufacturing practices and standardization.
  • Define manufacturing processes, calculate standard operation times, and manage technical sequencing.
  • Specify industrial needs for equipment and tooling.
  • Oversee the implementation of first installations with feedback loops.
  • Create and update assembly ranges, component lists, and work instructions.
  • Ensure robust, reliable, and safe operations, and support risk analyses.
  • Contribute to quality plans and supply chain management for data consistency.
  • Ensure compliance with health, safety, production planning, and economic aspects.
  • Communicate effectively with production teams and participate in cross-functional project teams.
  • Support continuous improvement by providing methods expertise and optimizing production processes.

Skills and Qualifications:

  • Proficiency in assembly preparation, including reading plans and bills of materials (ATA 100).
  • Technical knowledge of assembly processes, tooling, and means.
  • Experience with CATIA for view and section creation; CATIA design skills are a plus.
  • Familiarity with SAP, Wiplink, Delmia, NCM, MES, or similar preparation tools.
  • Technical curiosity and understanding of product development processes.
  • Rigorous, reactive, and committed to following standards.
  • Knowledge of elementary parts manufacturing processes is a plus.
  • Knowledge of H175/H160/Super Puma processes is a significant asset.
  • English language proficiency is necessary for communication with China during activity transfer.

If the prospect of joining our innovative group motivates you, apply online!