NHI - Engineering Avionic Manager & Avionic Committee Chairman (f/m)

Company and Role Overview

NHIndustries is a French SAS Company based in Aix‑en‑Provence, wholly owned by Airbus Helicopters, Leonardo and Fokker Aerostructures. It serves as the focal point for these companies in the NH90 program, managing the design, development and entry to service of the NH90 for NAHEMA and export customers.

The Avionic Manager & Avionic Committee Chairman role ensures coherent avionics architecture and system integration and leads end‑to‑end development, qualification/certification and implementation processes for related avionics projects.

Responsibilities

• Chair the Avionics Committee, providing technical leadership and arbitration across all avionics domains, validating design choices against contractual and safety requirements, and ensuring coherent avionics system architecture.
• Maintain a global transversal view of all ongoing avionic development activities and dependencies between PCs and contracts.
• Act as project manager for end‑to‑end development, qualification/certification and implementation of new helicopter variants or fleet production.
• Manage qualification/certification activities within NHI and PCs, coordinate closely with customers and authorities, and control interfaces and change impacts across PCs and suppliers during offer and contract execution.
• Chair or participate in technical reviews and milestone gates such as PDR, CDR, ERM.
• Escalate unresolved issues to the Aircraft Chief Engineer or Programme governance.
• Report and provide regular status updates to Chief Engineering, Programme and Directoire, including dashboards/KPIs, critical path identification, achievements, forecasted milestones and risk analysis.
• Manage technical closure of contractual non‑compliances and support Program Management for final closure.

Professional Experience

• Senior technical background (avionics systems a plus) with strong experience in project management and customer relations.

Technical Competencies

• Engineering, helicopter and avionics systems, project management.
• Planning, performance measurement and problem solving.

Soft Skills and Behaviors

• Proven experience with certification/qualification.
• Ability to lead cross‑functional technical decision forums.
• Strong communication and arbitration skills.

Languages

• Negotiation level in English.
• French, German or Italian would be a plus.

Tools and Software

• Strong MS Suite skills: Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Project.

Employment Details

Employment Type: Permanent

Job Family: Programme & Project Management

Experience Level: Professional

Classe Emploi (France): Classe G14

EEO Statement

Airbus 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 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.