Why should you apply?

Job Description:

LIFE IN ALBACETE: QUALITY & CONVENIENCE - Forget long commutes. Albacete offers you the great advantage of a “15-minute city": safe, accessible, comfortable and perfectly connected. Enjoy a premium standard of living at a competitive cost, ensuring you have the perfect balance between your career and your personal life.

AIRBUS HELICOPTERS: GROW WITH US - We offer more than a job; we offer a community. Immerse yourself in a young, collaborative environment that feels like family. As a strategic Center of Excellence, we are a integral leader in helicopter production, offering you endless potential to grow alongside our major projects.

Bring your ideas to a dynamic, modern ecosystem and help us build the next generation of aerospace solutions.

Which benefits will you have?

- Expand your network within the aeronautical industry.
- Meet our people working with passion and determination to make the world a more connected, safer and smarter place.
- Be part of our diversity and teamwork culture that propel us to accomplish the extraordinary - on the ground, in the sky and in space.

Key Responsibilities:

- Elaborate, optimize and communicate flight tests planning.
- Prepare and manage flight tests dispatch. Ensure availability of flight tests documentation (including on board and regulatory flight authorizations).
- Follow-up tests execution to support maturity and safety.
- Prepare and coordinate all the aspects of a test campaign.
- Operate test means for flight tests (telemetry, radio, ...).
- Screen and optimize test requests, screen and optimize planning, support readiness for test execution in close relation with stakeholders,



follow-up flight tests related certification documentation.

Your main tasks and responsibilities will include:

- Test preparation:
- Elaborating, optimizing, and communicating planning of ground and flight test activities on prototype and series helicopters in accordance with the Test Coordinator/Test Squad Leader.
- Ensuring the consolidation of all testing activities on aircraft and the involvement of all stakeholders inside and outside the Flight Test Department.
- Screening and optimizing ground and flight test specifications/orders and supporting feasibility investigations regarding necessary tools, equipment as well as testing infrastructure in general.
- Preparing flight test campaigns on different locations / areas, mainly in Europe. Supporting the Test Coordinator on negotiation of terms and conditions as well as costs for establishing.
- Supporting prototype shop during preparation of lay-ups.
- Supporting readiness for test performance in close relation with all stakeholders:
- Ensuring that the right test configuration of prototype and series test helicopters is established and documented well (helicopter, test equipment, flight test instrumentation) for each test purpose.
- Issuing appropriate documentation for the flight clearance approval.




- Ensure availability of flight tests documentation (including on board and regulatory flight authorizations).

- Test execution:

- Contributing to all relevant activities during the testing phases to ensure the test schedule.
- Supporting on-site and off-site test campaigns on demand / when necessary: Supporting ground and flight test operations.
- Potentially operating test means for flight tests, testing observation by telemetry on ground during critical test flights.
- As member of the extended Flight Test Integrated Team, being the interface towards Flight Test Department internal departments like data analyses, flight test instrumentation and data reduction.

- Test reporting:

- Supporting on issuing ground and flight test reports.
- Coordinating delivery of certification test documentation.
- Managing administrative tasks with regards to flight test activities (statistics on flight hour efforts, failures, reports and documentation).

We are looking for candidates with the following skills and experience:

- Degree in Engineering (Bachelor’s or Master’s, or equivalent diploma), preferably with an aeronautical/aerospace profile.
- Strong analytical, rigor and problem-solving skills with a proactive and systematic continuous improvement approach, capable of performing effectively even in complex environments involving multiple stakeholders and tight deadlines.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Flexibility, availability, and the ability to adapt to complex and dynamic scenarios.
- Advanced level of English and Spanish; French and/or German will be highly valued.
- Knowledge and/or experience in En

📌 Ground Support Engineer (Albacete)
🏢 Airbus Helicopters
📍 Albacete