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Job Description:
Airbus Helicopters is looking for a Blades Repair Supervisor to join our team based in Grand Prairie, TX.
Your duties will consists of supervising the Blade Shop employees and maintaining compliance with Airbus approved repair techniques, procedures and safety standards. You will also be responsible for inventory control functions, monitoring material usage, improving processes and procedures while providing leadership and direction to ensure that high standards of performance are maintained in the areas of safety, compliance, costs and quality to meet the Company Business Plan and Objectives.
Meet the team:
From building to servicing the next generation of aerospace, our team focuses on quality, productivity and efficiency. We ensure the highest quality of care and safety is built into each aircraft we assemble and maintain. Our team members make it happen.
Your working environment:
A suburb just outside the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area is home to Airbus Helicopters U.S. regional headquarters, where we have more than 1,000 employees. Check out one of the seven professional sports teams that also call Dallas home - you may even see a special, custom Airbus helicopter dedicated to the Dallas Cowboys flying during home games.
How we care for you:
- 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.
Your challenges:
MRO Shop Supervision: 50%
- Support the manager in planning and prioritizing the workload of all assigned personnel to ensure on time delivery of components in accordance with delivery schedules.
- Maintain the delivery schedule up to date, taken into account parts, technician availability and interface with the business office accordingly
- Drumbeat the flow in order to reach target turnaround time and 95% On Time Delivery.
- Ensure shop process is in compliance with FAA/OSHA and with Airbus procedures.
- Coordinate inspection requirements with quality assurance, paint shop and all support functions to maintain and meet delivery schedules. Train and mentor new employees in proper job procedures and department processes.
- Support the manager in conducting periodic performance evaluations and timecard approvals.
- Inspect and verify test and tooling equipment
- Make sure the standards are applied in the shop (safety shoes, glasses, gloves, FOD, cleaning of parts, parts protection all along the process…)
- Support the shop manager in resolving discrepancies and/or any blocking points during the repair process.
- Coordinate technical status updates to Business Office, internal & external customers as required.
- Analyses of trends and advises management accordingly.
- Identifies process improvements to encourage lean operations
- Maintaining status of WIP.
- Develop, implement, and improve processes and procedures that ensure accurate and effective operations.
- Support periodic performance review process, help set and monitor team performance goals, make recommendation to management related to personnel action.
Work preparation: 30%
- Maintain documentation used along the DCR process, configuration and data (including SAP) updated taken into account new configuration, obsolescence and airworthiness directives.
- Make sure the maintenance, repair manuals as well as all the repair documentation used in the workshop is up to date.
- Challenge and update regularly the target hours for every operation as well as the turnaround time.
- Support the shop manager in providing the necessary information to follow-up the production costs
- Assist quality to make sure that 100% of the quality gates are passed at the first time.
- Coordinate with Airbus Helicopters design office and technical support in order to get technical feedbacks in a timely manner to reach target delivery dates
- Be responsible to maintain up to date the tooling used by the technicians in the workshop
- Coordinates schedule and priorities with the Business Office demand
- Ordering and expediting parts and consumables from suppliers and local warehouse
- Review purchasing pattern with technical input from repair shop. Recommend minimum / maximum stocking levels to minimize inventory while ensuring TAT is in compliance with Airbus service agreements and goals.
- Coordinate blade pick & deliveries with logistics team
Process Improvement: 20%
- Identify, propose and implement shop processes improvement.
- Support the shop manager for any make or buy analysis and associated project.
- Accountable for the visual management in the workshop such as SQCDP or schedule.
- Perform PDCA or PPS (problem solving) for any discrepancy identified throughout the process or during audit.
- Assist the shop manager and the quality manager during audits.
- Identify new ways of working in order to live up the values in the shop.
- Demonstrate creativity, propose and implement innovations in the shop in order to reach the top company objectives.
- Analyze and improve the activity through LEAN methodologies
Your boarding pass:
- Minimum 2 years of previous supervisory/leadership role.
- Minimum 7 years in the aviation industry, preferably in repair/manufacturing.
- Highly Proficient in MS Office including Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint
- Excellent time management skills, ability to multi-task and handle high volume workloads.
- FAA Airframe and Powerplant (A&P) is preferred but not required.
Citizenship:
- Authorized to Work in the U.S.
Physical Requirements:
- Onsite: 90% of the time.
- Vision: able to see and read computer screen and other electronic equipment with screens, able to read documents, reports and engineering drawings. Daily
- Hearing: able to hear to participate in conversations in person and via teleconference or phone and to hear sounds on production floor including safety warnings or alarm. Daily
- Speaking: able to speak in conversations and meetings, deliver information and participate in communications. Daily
- Equipment Operation (personal computer, telephone, copies, fax machine, and related office equipment and using electronic identification card to enter building floors and internal doors): able to operate most office and personal electronic equipment and some tools including production tools such as hydraulic lifts. Daily
- Carrying: able to carry documents, tools, drawings, electronic equipment up to 30lbs/14kgs. Several times a week.
- Lifting: able to lift documents, tools, drawings, electronic equipment up to 30lbs/14kgs. Several times a week.
- Pushing / Pulling: able to push and pull small office furniture and some equipment and tools. Several times a week.
- Sitting: able to sit for long periods of time in meetings, working on computer. Daily
- Squatting / Kneeling: able to squat or kneel to retrieve or replace items stored on low shelving. Several times a week.
- Standing: able to stand for discussions in offices or on production floor. Daily
- Travel: able to travel independently and at short notice. 10% of the time.
- Walking (include routine walking such as to a shared printer to retrieve documents): able to walk through office and production areas including uneven surfaces. Daily
- Personal Protective Equipment required: Required PPE includes, but is not limited to, Safety Shoes, Safety Glasses, Hearing Protection, Respirators/Masks, and/or Protective Gloves as required by site and/or customer site
Take your career to a new level and apply online now!
A full job description will be provided to candidates whom progress to the interview stage or any candidate upon request.
This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.
Company:
Airbus Helicopters, Inc.
Employment Type:
US - Direct Hire
Experience Level:
Professional
Remote Type:
On-site
Job Family:
Leadership
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Job Posting End Date: 12.20.2025
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