Wing Build Support Engineer

Position: Wing Build Support Engineer (Contract)
£52.80ph umbrella
20% uplift Double Day Shift pattern
Double day shift pattern

Alternate week of mornings and afternoons
Mornings – 6:00am – 1:10pm
Afternoons – 1:30pm – 8:40pm

Within the Broughton Wing Plant Engineering Team (PET) we are looking to recruit Build Support Engineer supporting the Single Aisle (SA) Component Delivery Teams (CDT). The successful applicant will be part of our fast moving teams who deliver high quality Build Support to meet the needs of the Plant.

The teams function is to provide reactive and proactive engineering support to the CDTs to ensure the achievement of their business objectives. The team also looks to identify opportunities to optimise the design and industrial system in partnership with Manufacturing Engineering to promote a true MEET (Manufacturing Engineering and Engineering Together) ethos.

Aspects of the Role
Tangible Deliverables to Time, Cost and Quality:
Act as the link and integrate between Engineering and Manufacturing, ensuring co-design solutions which are suitable for the industrial system whilst maintaining an engineering and most important customer perspective
Support the design definition and communicate the industrial requirements into the wider engineering community.

Provide ‘lineside’ build support and act as the focal point for any Engineering topics within the Wing Plant CDTs including root cause analysis investigations into all abnormalities arising from design queries.
Provide proactive product improvement which supports modifications to reduce Recurring Costs, Non-Recurring Costs and Non-Conformances throughout the SA & WB value stream.
Support initiatives to further enhance team efficiency and effectiveness through application of methods, tools, processes and/or other capability improvements (e.g. achievement of AOS goals, sustainability goals, etc).
Act as delegate / deputy to the Delivery Team Leader and support the coordination of the team to meet the needs of the customer

Required Competencies & Abilities:
Maintain and further enhance working relationships with key stakeholders
Be a role model exemplifying the Airbus Values
Willingness to learn how to propose solutions and solve problems
Knowledge and experience of metallic structures (composite knowledge desirable)
Knowledge and experience of design toolsets.
Opportunity to develop IT skills associated with engineering activities
Wing Structure knowledge would be advantageous.
Ability to autonomously analyse, propose and solve technical problems.
Ensure delivery of own tasks whilst adhering to time, cost and quality parameters.
Excellent communication skills and a drive to deliver customer value and quality