Associate Production Engineering Specialist (Contract)

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Job Description:

Airbus Helicopters is looking for an Associate Production Engineering Specialist (Contract) to join our team based in Columbus, MS.

This position is a temporary (contract) position with no specific time period but could be extended or shortened as needed. Contractors are employed by a 3rd party vendor and placed on assignment to Airbus in America.

In this role, you will be responsible for translating Engineering design data for all technical aspects into work instructions for fabrication, assembly, and installation of sheet metal, composite, and electrical parts.  You'll also be responsible for assisting the Production Engineering Specialist (PES) team in creating and maintaining released/approved data structures, within the dedicated MRP system, to ensure conformity to design, configuration management, quality assurance, and material planning/schedule requirements. Other dimensions of the role include:

• Making recommendations to the PES team pertaining to design data analysis to determine operational task sequencing to increase efficiency for industrial flow

• Making recommendations to Design Engineering to gain efficiencies throughout the life cycle of the product(s).

• Collaborate with Manufacturing Engineers to streamline production flow, tact, and material planning and forecasting.

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:

On the eastern border of Mississippi you’ll find Columbus, home to our Helicopter manufacturing and assembly lines and Center of Excellence for the entire North America region. It’s here that we produce the UH-72A Lakota Helicopters for the U.S. Army in addition to the H-125 aircraft for civil and commercial customers.

Your Challenges:

Work Preparation: 50%

•  Audit technical work instructions and provide feedback to the PES team for potential updates. This includes all design data required to describe the complete process required to manufacture, assemble, test, process, and deliver the products of the company.

• Evaluate current sequence tasks to ensure manufacturing, assembly, and installation requirements are implemented to improve efficiency, and provide recommendations to the PES team. Assist to confirm that tasks are in coordination with industrial schedules, back shops, production lines, and retrofit, as required.

• Input engineering design data requirements into the MRP system, including but not limited to, routing instructions, bill of materials (BOM), design and special process references, production resource tools (PRT), and standard times, as required by the PES team.

Coordination:     30%

• Coordinate with the PES team  on creating and auditing existing work instructions to enhance internal products and ensure that work orders contain more detailed information to add more value for internal customers.

• Coordinate with PES, Data Management Group (DMG), Planning, Procurement, Engineering, Quality, and Industrial teams to ensure accurate communication of design requirements, in order to facilitate the manufacturing and installation for se