Senior Aircraft Technician (Avionics)

About the role

Airbus Helicopters is looking for a Senior Aircraft Technician (Avionics) to join our Maintenance & Repair (MAR) team in Grand Prairie, TX. You will be part of a small team that performs work on assigned electronic components. You will perform repair or replacement of electronic components and systems, conduct operational checks to verify proper functioning of components, and diagnose malfunctions or failures and make adjustments, repairs or replacements of parts or circuitry.

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.

Your challenges

• Perform work on assigned units from component maintenance manuals.
• Ensure repairs and completed work are done in accordance with FAA regulations, customer requirements, and company processes.
• Complete maintenance orders pertaining to completion of assigned work.
• Operate and set up auto test, bench test equipment in accordance with Component Maintenance Manuals.
• Diagnose faults by troubleshooting and isolating fault from LRU level to SRU level, and finally component level (transistor, resistor, capacitor, integrated circuits, diodes, etc.).
• Use touch-up and through-hole soldering skills to remove and replace components on printed circuit board using component maintenance manual.
• Ensure Electrostatic Sensitive Devices (ESD) processes are adhered to at all phases of the repair process.

Your boarding pass

• Minimum of six (6) years of bench technician/component level repair in electronics.
• FCC License and Through Hole-Soldering Certification is HIGHLY desirable.
• Ability to read and interpret electronic schematics.
• Ability to diagnose, identify and repair defective electronic components on printed circuit board (PCB).
• Must be able to read, write, and speak English.

Physical Requirements

• Onsite or remote: 90% Onsite
• Vision: able

How we care for you

Financial Rewards

• Competitive base salary
• Incentive compensation which may include profit sharing schemes
• Retirement savings plan
• Ability to participate in an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (“ESOP”)

Work/Life Balance

• Paid time off including personal time, holidays
• 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”)
• 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
• Opportunity to participate in accelerated development programmes and both national and international mobility