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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
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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:



o 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. o Ensuring the consolidation of all testing activities on aircraft and the involvement of all stakeholders inside and outside the Flight Test Department. o Screening and optimizing ground and flight test specifications/orders and supporting feasibility investigations regarding necessary tools, equipment as well as testing infrastructure in general. o 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. o Supporting prototype shop during preparation of lay-ups. o 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: o Contributing to all relevant activities during the testing phases to ensure the test schedule. o Supporting on-site and off-site test campaigns on demand / when necessary:



Supporting ground and flight test operations. o Potentially operating test means for flight tests, testing observation by telemetry on ground during critical test flights. o 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: o Supporting on issuing ground and flight test reports. o Coordinating delivery of certification test documentation. o 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 Engineering Systems, Vehicle Systems and Avionics, Engineering Requirements, System Design and Development, Systems Integration, Validation and Verification (V&V;), Airworthiness, and Flight Safety.
* Knowledge of rotary-wing platforms, complex avionics systems (e.g., HELIONIX), and NH90 / H145 fleets will be considered a strong plus.
* Experience and/or knowledge in systems and systems int

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