Program Specialist /Team Assistant

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Job Description:

Airbus Americas Engineering is looking for a Program Specialist/Team Assistant to join our team in Wichita, Kansas.

In this challenging yet rewarding role, you will contribute to the success of the Airbus Americas Engineering team by performing various duties to ensure efficient business management. Your tasks will include communicating, coordinating team actions, supporting data analytics and providing support to the leadership team. You will also assist with time-consuming, ever-evolving, open-ended tasks that do not require engineering judgment. 

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 aero-structure design including analysis of aircraft primary structures, such as wings and fuselages, for all major Airbus products across the globe.

How We Care for You:

• Financial Rewards: Competitive base salary, incentive compensation which may include profit sharing schemes, retirement savings plan and the ability to participate in an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (“ESOP”)

• Work/Life Balance: Paid time off including personal time, holidays and a generous paid parental leave program.

• Health & Welfare: Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical (traditional and high-deductible health plans), prescription, dental, vision, life, disability, Employee Assistance Plan (“EAP”) and other supplemental benefit coverages. 

• Individual Development: Upskilling and development opportunities through our global Leadership University, including unlimited access to 10,000+ e-learning courses focusing on ways to develop your employability, certifications, career path as well as the opportunity to participate in accelerated development programmes and both national and international mobility.

Your Challenges:

Develop and implement monitoring systems - 40%

• Build and maintain dashboards and reporting tools to visualize progress 

• Collect and input team data into reporting tools to support analysis of KPIs

• Define and release overtime memos to support cost control

Document Search and Storage - 25%

• Search for technical documents in different program relevant databases.

• Release documents into the ADS/EDS Database System.

• Provide the engineering team with the appropriate technical document templates.

• Support various engineering database system operations and processes.

• Support Functional Review Process and Design Dataset releases.

Document Maintenance - 25%

• Initiate engineering documents by creating issue/reference numbers.

• Review technical documents for appropriate format, grammar, and syntax.

• Revise technical docum