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To stay on top, Airbus recognises the importance of supporting high-achieving and talented undergraduates. We do this through offering challenging placement opportunities during which your skills and potential are fully maximised.
Our placements give a unique insight into potential career paths within Airbus. They are designed so that you can put your theoretical knowledge into practice and gain crucial industry experience. The skills and knowledge you gain will improve your chances of a future role within the Airbus and should benefit your future studies.
About us!
The mission of the Mechanical Design Office is to provide engineering competencies in all mechanical related engineering activities and to design and develop mechanical and thermal products for Space System business units (Earth Observation, Science, Navigation, Telecom). From first system synoptic to detail specification, the Mechanical Design Office (MDO) support the Business Unit to layout all equipment and create the RF connectivity design (Waveguides, coaxial cables) within our spacecraft product lines.
Our mission is to accommodate the payload equipment in 3D using Dassault suite of tools (Catia), and to produce detailed routing and design of the RF interconnections via waveguide and coaxial cables, in accordance with interface block diagram, including stress and thermal justification. In conjunction with Assembly, Integration and Test department, we produce the definition of the payload assembly kitting, installation drawings and bill of materials to allow them to smoothly assemble our satellites in the quickest and most effective way.
We also create the testing definition and detailed design to support the testing activities : jigs, MGSE, non flight RF hardware, from the specification to the readiness for assembly phase. We are engaged in the transformation of our company, supporting the digitalization exercise, as a key actor in product digitalization and data continuity.
What will you be doing?
The successful candidate will be working with the CAD Process team on the DDMS (Digital Design and Manufacturing Service) improvement Project. This project is designed to deliver significant financial savings to the business by reducing waste and using digitalisation as a key tool in improving end to end processes through the business. The mission will be to look at specifying and documenting the process changes required for making the deployment of the new toolset (including 3DExperience / Catia V6) a success.
The new way of working will need to be leaner so a great interaction with the stakeholders within and outside of the Mechanical Design Office will be mandatory. At the end, the successful candidate will produce a report that will be presented in front of the department managers and other key stakeholders who will review the solution in order to approve it.
Skills
Please note, we love your interest in working for Airbus but we do ask that you make only one application. We encourage you to take time to decide which of our exciting opportunities is right for you and then submit an application that best represents you, your skills and experience in connection with the role you have selected.
One application: Make It Possible, Make It Happen, Make It… Count!
Our placements are open to Undergraduates only. Therefore it is mandatory for candidates to be an undergraduate for the whole duration of the placement.
Successful candidates will be able to demonstrate the following;
- Ideally currently studying a Mechanical Engineering degree
- Some experience and knowledge of the Dassault System tools (Catia V5 or V6 preferred)
- Some programming skills (VB, VB.net, php, mysql C#)
Benefits
- £18,000 salary
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Flexible working hours
Please ensure that a covering letter detailing motivations and suitability for this position is included in your application.
Contact
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Airbus is, and always has been, committed to equal opportunities for all. As such, we will never ask for any type of monetary exchange in the frame of a recruitment process. Any impersonation of Airbus to do so should be reported to emsom@airbus.com.
