Job Description:

Airbus Helicopters is looking for a Design Organisation Approval (DOA) Manager (f/m) to join our Design Management System Team based in Marignane, France.

You will be part of a team managing the Design Assurance System in compliance with airworthiness regulations. As part of the Design Management System Team, you will be involved in all necessary activities acting as interface with the Airworthiness Authorities aiming at obtaining, managing and maintaining the Design Organisation Approvals (both civil and military) of Airbus Helicopters.

Your working environment:

Major economic hub with Marseille-Provence Airport, Marignane is a dynamic city in the southeast of France. It is located near the cities of Aix-en-Provence and Marseille, which host a rich cultural and tourist offer. Close to the beaches of the Côte Bleue, it offers many options for water sports activities.

How we care for you:

• Financial rewards: Attractive salary, agreements on success and profit sharing schemes, employee savings plan abounded by Airbus and employee stock purchase plan on a voluntary basis.

• Work / Life Balance:  Extra days-off for special occasions, holiday transfer option, a Staff council offering many social, cultural and sport activities and other services.

• Wellbeing / Health: Complementary health insurance coverage (disability, invalidity, death). Depending on the site: health services center, concierge services, gym, carpooling application.

• Individual development: Great upskilling opportunities and development prospects  with unlimited access to &43;10.000 e-learning courses to develop your employability, certifications, expert career path, accelerated development programmes, national and international mobility.

At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly.    Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

Your challenges:

• Manage design organisation approvals, maintaining the existing ones, obtaining new ones and extending the existing ones including new privileges and/or products

• Interface with Airworthiness Authorities (DOA related) for all activities regarding the management of the design organisation approvals

• Establish and keep up-to-date the Design Organisation Manuals

• Lead process for demonstrating DOA compliance to the Airworthiness Authorities of the design organisation manuals, including evaluation and approval management with the Airworthiness Authorities of the changes to the design organisation manuals

• Ensure that compliance check lists are established and maintained in compliance with the design assurance system, and that these ones, together with the associated procedures, methods and tools, demonstrate compliance with the applicable Airworthiness Authorities regulations

• Ensure that DOA procedures approved baseline for each design organisation approval is accurate and available for the design organisation

• Manage assessment of design assurance system’s procedures to ensure DOA compliance (under the responsibility of the process / procedures owners)

• Own processes and procedures related to the design assurance system linked to compliance with airworthiness, environmental protection and operational suitability data requirements under Product Integrity

• Lead the discussions with the Airworthiness Authorities to achieve the agreement of processes and procedures related the design assurance system, with special focus on those linked to compliance with airworthiness, environmental protection and operational suitability data requirements

• Manage interfaces with other Design or Production Organisation Approval Holders

• Support Design Supplier Control Managers (DSCM) in defining design organisation and process requirements applicable to DOA Suppliers

• Support DSCM for the qualification and surveillance phase of DOA Suppliers for both existing and new programmes or work packages

• Manage Significant Changes to DOA from the application until their acceptance by the Airworthiness Authorities, including their implementation and deployment within the design assurance system

• Provide DOA expertise support to the overall design organisation

• Support Product Integrity domains as DOA expert upon request

• Support Airbus Helicopters programmes engineering bidding process for those aspects DOA related

• Support the implementation of a Safety Management System (SMS) in the Airbus Helicopters Design Organization

• Represent Airbus Helicopters in the rule-making relevant to DOA matters by developing, promoting and implementing strategies and concepts, in Airbus Helicopters interest, within international DOA activities

• Cascade the changes on the regulations for DOA related aspects, launch them into the design organisation and contribute for all DOA management activities and support design organisation as DOA expert

• Contribute, as DOA expert, upon request from the management, to specific tasks or projects and provide expertise support in those aspects related to DOA matters to the design organisation, both internally and externally including DOA suppliers

• Managing the cascade of the design organisation authorizations (CQE, CVE, DAE, …)

• Support AH Training Academy in meeting the needs DOA training across the design organization

Your profile:

• University degree in Aeronautical Engineering

• Minimum 10 years professional experience in aviation design organisation or in aircraft certification activities

• Technical expertise in aviation regulations, especially EASA Part21J

• Proven experience in Design and /or Airworthiness functions, including interface with the Airworthiness Authorities

• Extensive knowledge of the process landscape in aircraft development and deep understanding of company processes

• Experience in managing a trans-functional and trans-national project

• Very good command of both written and spoken English

• Safety Awareness

• Strong organizational and problem-solving abilities

• Excellent communication and leadership skills

• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams

• Stakeholder focus

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This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

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At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.