Head of Engineering - Resource & Competency

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Job Description:

Airbus is seeking a Head of Engineering - Resource & Competency, a functional manager role that reports directly to the Regional Head of Resource & Competency and is responsible for all resources within the Mobile Engineering Department. With an understanding of work task requirements and in cooperation with the Heads of Engineering - Projects; employee assignments, skill development, training needs, application requirements, performance assessments and associated salary adjustments are areas of focus.

Meet the team:

Our Engineers have the privilege of working on complex, highly engineered machines and are involved at all stages of the aircraft life cycle, from product development to manufacturing and direct support to our airline customers. If you’re interested in designing, creating, and testing the present and future of Airbus products across the globe, join our mission to connect the world.

Your working environment:

Located on the Wichita State University (WSU) innovation campus is Airbus’ first dedicated engineering facility outside of Europe. Our team of 200+ support staff and engineers focus on aerostructure design including analysis of aircraft primary structures, such as wings and fuselages, for all major Airbus products across the globe.

Your challenges:

• Manage staffing solutions by transitioning, recruiting or reducing personnel appropriately with focus on overall performance while maintaining redundancy in critical competencies, skills, delegations and assuring diversity

• Assure significant individual, team, or group achievements are recognized and address poor performance of individuals or teams when needed.

• Lead annual performance assessment to assure fairness across all project and domain teams.

• Assure long-term success by understanding the needs of the project team, the individual, and the office by providing balanced staffing solutions that provide the appropriate critical skills and developmental opportunities.

• Support staff development needs; ensuring that these needs are identified and solutions are delivered.

• Work with the Mobile Engineering Leadership team on the annual promotion process.

• Maintain and promote proper ethical behavior by creating a high functioning team that is based on trust.

• Anticipate and develop competences required for future & disruptive technologies / architectures / products / new ways of working / environmental impacts and sustainable designs.

• Lead Summer Internship, Early Career Development and Airbus Global Graduate Programs locally.

• Coordinate with Heads of Resources and Competencies within Airbus Americas to support a Regional resourcing solution.

• Support the development of multi-skilling/component/program knowledge and capabilities.

• Responsible for the personal development of staff and ensuring succession planning is in place for leadership, supervisory and critical technical positions.

• Understand technical processes and inform staff of updates and/or new processes, methods and tools.

• Be the voice of the skills and the domain with Centre of Competence and all stakeholders meeting regularly with Technical Authorities and Technical Leadership within 1C and S

• Supports the preparation of Engineers for Technical Signatory within the organization

• Participate in the initial resource planning of work packages or a