Laboratory Equipment Design Engineering Placement

Laboratory Equipment Design Engineering Placement

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Benefits:

Salary: £23,400

35 hours per week // Flexible working hours // Hybrid working // Half day Fridays! // 25 days holiday plus bank holidays

About us:

As an intern, you will join the Laboratory Test Means Fluid Mechanical Design and Test team (LTM). You will have the opportunity to develop your soft and technical skills in a variety of end-to-end activities, including designing, building, and testing. This includes challenging and exciting projects for aircraft that are already flying and those that may fly in the future.

The Laboratory Test Means Architecture and Integration team supports the development and certification test activities for the fuel and landing gear systems across all Airbus programmes. The test scope of the fluid mechanical and mechanical test team is primarily focused on the fluid mechanics, pneumatic, and hydraulic aspects of various systems, including:

• Verification of fluid mechanics;
• Pneumatics, hydraulics, and mechanical equipment on fuel rigs and landing gear means;
• System performance under various conditions;
• Equipment robustness and certification tests.

Additionally, new and emerging technologies, such as zero-carbon aviation, are an increasing part of our working portfolio.

What you will be doing:

The main activities you will perform as part of this team are as follows.

Laboratory test means support, which includes

• Test Mean development and commissioning for new test rigs;
• Maintenance and evolution of current test rigs.

Functional integration tests on lab test means:

• Identification of test mean needs;
• Test procedure preparation and execution on various Airbus rigs available in Filton;
• Support of system tests performed at supplier facilities.

The department strategy fully supports the Integration and Flight Test center’s vision to develop a ‘single test team’ identity covering all tests from Supplier to Flight Test.

The jobholder will be a member of a Group in the LTM Architecture and Integration department in Filton, working in close relationship with the corresponding test teams.

The aim of this internship is to support the fuels and/or landing gear systems hydromechanical test engineers on various activities, within one or several groups of the test department. Activities carried out could be involved with any of the Airbus Aircraft programmes or R&T work. This may also require trips to various Airbus sites and/or at supplier facilities.

There may also be opportunities to experience other areas within the fuels and landing gear test department including the avionics testing and flight test analysis.

Furthermore, significant opportunities to develop soft skills will be available throughout the internship by supporting and conducting a range of development tasks including school liaison events and departmental activities.

Requirements:

Our placements are open to Undergraduates only. Therefore it is mandatory for candidates to be an undergraduate for the whole duration of the placement. Please inform your graduation date on your application.

*Your application should include a CV along with a Cover Letter outlining your motivation and suitability for the role.*

Successful candidates will be able to demonstrate the following:

• Studying towards a degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, Science, or equivalent;
• Excited by technical challenges and solving problems with interest in fluid mechanics, hydraulics or pneumatics;
• Skills in mechanical design and build, data analysis, presenting and report writing;
• Project management knowledge or interest;
• Committed to delivering on time;
• Good interpersonal skills and capable of working as a team as well as autonomously;
• Negotiation level of English both written and spoken;
• Nice to have awareness of aircraft systems and understanding of basic electronics;
• Understanding of measurement techniques (e.g. pressure, flow, temperature, etc.).

SECURITY CLEARANCE:

You will be subject to a BPSS (Baseline Personnel Security Standard) check. You may also need to gain UK SC-level Security Clearance or Export Control, depending on the role.

Contact

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