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Airbus

Manufacturer of commercial aircraft, helicopters, defense

Mass Properties Product Domain Manager

Aerospace EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeMirabel, QC, Canada

About the Job

Requirements

  • A Master's or PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering or Aerospace Engineering.
  • At least 10 years of experience in the aerospace industry and at least 5 years of experience in mass properties.
  • Project management experience.
  • Ability to lead projects and organize teams.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills.
  • Customer orientation and financial acumen.
  • Proficiency in English is required.

Responsibilities

  • Provide aircraft structure and systems mass and inertia data to the loads teams.
  • Track changes in aircraft mass and center of gravity throughout the aircraft's service life.
  • Collaborate with design teams to support feasibility studies.
  • Provide operators with documentation needed for safe and efficient operations.
  • Support marketing teams during sales campaigns.
  • Coordinate, monitor, and validate Mass Properties domain activities, ensuring alignment with key stakeholders.
  • Ensure programme targets for time, cost, quality, and performance are met according to the agreed work plan and budget.
  • Launch projects robustly by identifying interfaces and capturing project requirements and assumptions; review lessons learned and establish effective communication among the domain, Flight Physics domains, and the programme; understand and capture needs, collect feedback, and trigger necessary actions.
  • Lead and coordinate development and annual updates of an achievable integrated reference work plan, including associated means and capabilities development, consistent with requirements and assumptions and aligned with the budget.
  • Deliver workload and cost estimates for the area of responsibility.
  • Ensure appropriate risk and opportunity management for the domain jointly with the programme, following the programme risk and opportunity management plan.
  • Trigger lessons-learned capture at the appropriate project stages and ensure proper project closure.
  • Coordinate domain design and validation activities.
  • Ensure funding, development, and use of the means and capabilities needed to achieve the agreed work plan consistently with assumptions and requirements.
  • Involve technical experts and certification authorities in preparing project work plans to agree on technical strategy and review deliverables and associated validation.
  • Validate and understand downstream consequences of technical decisions made with technical experts.
  • Represent the domain within the Chief Engineer organization, participate in relevant programme forums, and provide necessary technical representation for the domain.
  • Report appropriately to the domain, Flight Physics, the programme, and other interested parties, including other Product Domain Managers and Finance Controlling.
  • Participate in teamwork within and outside the domain to contribute actively to programme success.
  • Foster innovative and efficient solutions to continuously improve ways of working.

Desired Qualifications

  • Previous experience in Flight Physics or programme work.

About the Company

Airbus

Manufacturer of commercial aircraft, helicopters, defense

Airbus designs and manufactures a wide range of aerospace products, including commercial airplanes, helicopters, defense systems, and space technologies. Its aircraft and rotorcraft are built with integrated airframes, propulsion, avionics, and digital systems to carry passengers, cargo, or conduct military missions, while its space division covers satellites, orbital infrastructure, launch services, and secure communications. Airbus differentiates itself with an end-to-end portfolio across commercial, defense, and space, a global manufacturing and services network, and a focus on sustainability and digital transformation. Its goal is to enable global mobility and connectivity while reducing aviation’s environmental impact through sustainable aviation and collaborative innovation.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Blagnac, France
Founded
1970

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