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Payload Design Manager mf
2015-01-23 15:06:07| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Airbus Defence and Space is a division of the Airbus Group formed by combining the business activities of Cassidian, Astrium and Airbus Military. This new division is Europes number one defence and space enterprise, the second largest space business worldwide and among the top ten global defence enterprises. It employs some 40,000 employees generating revenues of approximately 14 billion per year. A vacancy for a Payload Design Manager mf has arisen within Airbus Defence Space in Toulouse. The successful applicant will join the SSystem Architecture Validation department. Based in Toulouse and reporting to the Head of Payload PL Design, the Payload Design Manager has a key technical role in bids, providing robust, innovative and cost effective payload designs in support of the proposal management team. Within this context, you will also be responsible for the PL design support for projects in the early custom phase post contract award ensuring continuity from bid phase to project phase. You will be required to work cooperatively with various other disciplines involved in bids and satellite design the Proposal Manager, the Satellite Customisation team, Antenna Engineering, as well as the Payload Design team in Portsmouth and the Advanced PL systems team. You will provide payload design engineering expertise on bids, either in a lead or support role, and will have the following responsibilities Analysing customer requirements Identifying the main payload design to cost tradeoffs, risks and opportunities Establishing and maintaining equipment minispecs, liaising with equipment MSCs and negotiating as required with suppliers. Being responsible for approval of final contractual specs Generating the frequency plans and the block diagrams Generating the payload analyses e.g. EIRP, GT, etc. Generating the hardware list Liaising with the technical managerinternal accommodation engineer to optimise the layout Generating the payload mission redline or statement of compliance and taking the lead in negotiations with the customer on the contractual exhibit for payload performance Answering payload questions from the customer Liaising with and coordinating support from external entities Advanced PL systems engineering group, the PL design group in Portsmouth, the Satellite Systems Group in Toulouse and the Antenna Group in Stevenage Performing lessons learned at the completion of a bid or customisation phase. Proposing evolutions to processes, best practices and methods. Pursuing and implementing them as is determined necessary Liaising and cooperating with Payload Design, Justify Design Build, Payload Validation and CM AIT as well as the Payload Product Group and MSCs to build understanding ahead of any project commitment. This role will involve business travel sometimes at short notice and as such you must be able to travel accordingly. We are looking for candidates with the following skills and experience Engineering degree or equivalent 5 years of experience in payload design, build and test processes Knowledge of bid processes Team spirit Good communication skills to interact with Bids and Product Development teams and customers and suppliers Negotiation level of English and French. Please apply online. Airbus Group is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief. Airbus Group Recruitment Centre To apply click here
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