Field Principal Engineer

Job Description:

As a Field Principal Engineer - Supplier Development
, you will leverage your expertise with a high degree of autonomy to elevate engineering performance and implement impactful improvements at your assigned supplier's facilities. You will own the comprehensive transverse engineering perspective for this specific supplier, leading efforts in key areas such as technical development, strategic alignment, project leadership, milestone planning, resource management, and process excellence. Your efforts will directly contribute to a robust and efficient supply chain, ensuring the delivery of high-quality engineering deliverables.


*** This position requires the ability to travel up to 75% of the time. ***

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.

The Engineering Center in Mobile, Alabama houses hundreds of Airbus engineers who assist in the design and development of Airbus commercial aircraft cabins, including aftermarket upgrades, reconfigurations and services of all product types across the globe.

• 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.

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

• Ensure measurable improvements in key supplier engineering metrics (e.g., achieving and exceeding on-time and on-quality delivery targets), implementation of corrective and preventive actions, successful execution of supplier development plans, best practices implemented at supplier sites.
• Tailored supplier development plans with clear objectives and timelines, documented assessments of supplier engineering capabilities, effective training programs delivered, progress reports on supplier development initiatives, strong collaborative relationships with supplier engineering leadership.
• Successfully executed engineering improvement projects at supplier sites, detailed project plans and timelines, effective risk mitigation strategies, regular project status reports, achievement of project objectives within scope and budget.
• Consolidated reports and analyses of supplier engineering performance across programs and products, identification of common trends and issues, standardized metrics and reporting mechanisms, proactive communication of key insights to internal stakeholders, facilitation of cross-program learning and best practice sharing.
• Verification of supplier engineering alignment with company strategic goals, implementation of standardized and improved engineering processes at suppliers, documented adherence to quality standards and regulatory requirements, participation in strategic planning with a supplier engineering perspective, successful process audits and improvement initiatives.

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical/aerospace engineering.
• 13+ years of relevant experience in the…