Associate Production Engineering Specialist

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Job Description:

Airbus Helicopters is seeking an experienced Associate Production Engineering Specialist

to join the Manufacturing team in Columbus, MS. This critical role is 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.  Position is 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.  Help/Assist team to analyze manufacturing process flows for enhancements and reductions of cycle time, cost, and material consumption.

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:

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 serial production, retrofit, and new helicopter completion (NHC) activities.

• Coordinate any material and operational instruction updates to the PES team to ensure new and existing design data is made available to applicable team(s).

• Collaborate within a team environment to develop creative ideas and solutions and facilitate continuous improvements.

Configuration:   15%

• Possess basic knowledge of Configuration Management in order to administer the design i