Mass Properties Product Domain Manager (PDM) / Responsable de Domaine Propriétés des Masses

Do you have experience with Mass Properties and have interests for project coordination? Do you want to develop yourself in a multidisciplinary and highly collaborative environment, surrounded by open minded & curious people? Then this job is for you!

The A220 commercial aircraft Programme is looking for an A220 Mass Properties Product Domain Manager (PDM) to join our engineering team based in Mirabel (Québec, Canada).

You will be part of the Mass Properties team responsible to provide expertise from pre-development phase to In-Service Support notably by:

• Provide mass and inertia data for the aircraft structure and systems to the loads teams;
• Rigorously track changes in the aircraft's mass and center of gravity throughout its service life;
• Collaborate with various design teams to support feasibility studies;
• Provide the necessary documentation to operators to ensure safe and efficient operations;
• Support marketing teams during sales campaigns.

Your role as A220 Mass Properties Product Domain Manager (PDM) will be to coordinate, monitor and validate all domain activities ensuring alignment with key stakeholders. You will be based in Canada while collaborating in a transnational collaborative framework distributed across 7 sites.

Your working environment:

The A220 commercial aircraft Programme is headquartered in Mirabel, in the greater Montreal area, where the vibrant city of Montreal is just a stone’s throw away. Known for its peaceful and safe environment, the region offers a high quality of life for younger or experienced professionals and families, perfectly balancing career opportunities and outdoor activities that makes it a truly special place to call home.

How we care for you:

• Financial rewards: Attractive salary, annual bonus, group insurance plan, pension plan and share purchase plan.
• Work / Life Balance: A hybrid working policy, on-site cafeterias and a highly competitive holiday policy.
• Wellbeing/Health: Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Discount Program and on-site Medical Service, access to a public shuttle service between Laval (Montmorency metro station) and Mirabel, and a carpooling application.
• Individual development: Great upskilling opportunities and development prospects with unlimited access to +10.000 e-learning courses to develop your employability, certifications, accelerated development programmes, national and international mobility.

Your challenges:

As Product Domain Manager for Mass Properties, you are in charge of:

1. Ensure Programme agreed targets & expectations are met in terms of Time, Cost, Quality and Performance as per agreed work plan and budget. In particular:

• Ensure Project Robust Launch identifying all interfaces and capturing Project requirements & assumptions. Proper Lessons Learnt review is a must at this stage ensuring effective communications establishment between Domain & Flight Physics domains and Programme, understanding and capturing their needs and collecting regular feedback to trigger needed actions;
• Lead and coordinate the development and yearly update of a reference achievable integrated work plan (including associated means & capabilities development) consistent with requirements and assumptions and converged on budget;
• Deliver workload and cost estimate for your perimeter of responsibilities;
• To ensure, for the Domain & jointly with the Programme, a proper R&O management in line with Program Risk & Opportunities Management Plan;
• To trigger capture of Lessons Learnt at the appropriate time of the project and to ensure proper project closure.

2. Lead the coordination of design and validation activities of the Domain:

• To ensure the funding, development and use of means and capabilities necessary to achieve the agreed work plan consistently with assumptions and requirements;
• To involve technical expertise and certification authorities in the project work plan preparation in order to agree the technical strategy and review the Deliverables and associated validation;
• To validate and understand downstream consequences of technical decisions elaborated with technical expertise involvement.

3. Represent Domain in front of Chief Engineer organization, participating in relevant Programme forums and assuring necessary Domain technical representation.

4. Ensure adequate reporting to the Domain, Flight Physics, Programme and other interested parties (as other PDMs, Finance Controlling...) and openly participate in team work within and outside Domain to ensure active contribution to Programme success.

5. Foster innovative and efficient solutions to continuously improve our WoW.

Your boarding pass:

• You have a Master or PhD degree in Mechanical or Aerospace engineering;
• You have a passion for aeronautics;
• You have at least 10 of experience in the Aerospace industry and at least 5 years of experience in mass properties;
• You have project management experience;
• You have ability to lead projects and team organization;
• You have excellent communication and presentation skills;
• You are customer oriented and have financial acumen;
• Previous experience in Flight Physics or Program would be a plus.

Due to the sector of activity (aerospace), frequent contacts with Airbus entities worldwide, and interactions with suppliers and clients also located across the globe, proficiency in English is required for this position.

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.

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