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AIS is a well-established engineering and services company supporting several private or public sectors partners and clients within Aerospace, Rail & marine, Defence, Power and oil & gas.

AIS team can work as embedded resources within our client’s broader teams or from our different European locations.

Our lean, flexible organisational structure allows for rapid mobilization of international resources for technical assistance, as well as offering a fully-fledged set of solutions – technical work packages, – tailor-made training modules, – R&D / R&T cooperation agreement, – Clusters and universities partnerships
To meet the specific needs of our customers in engineering, manufacturing & test support, maintenance & logistics, operations.

We can provide the right consultants for the job, anywhere in the world.

Activities
As part of our UK-based team and reporting to our Managing Director, you will be providing technical assistance to our main customers in China during a 2-year secondment, based out of Shanghai or Pekin. Extensive travel will be required at customers’ location.

The current contracts we are running allow for integrating either a System or a RAMS Engineer within our team, working on turboprop and turbojet work packages.

RAMS Work package: tasks and responsibilities *Apply RAMS engineering techniques (functional analysis, Functional Hazard Assessment (FHA), FMEA, fault-tree analysis…) to define systems’ security objectives *Determine characteristics’ values (MTBF, availability, probability and occurrence of failure…) *Analyse system architecture to set security objectives for equipment *Define design and implementation- related modifications to reach and ensure compliance with security and availability objectives

Systems Engineering Work Package: tasks and responsibilities *Requirements and configuration management *Process insurance *System Engineering process development and deployment for the product *Ensure quality in line with applicable standards *Risk and non-conformity management

Skills and qualifications – Profile must be at least 5 years’ experience in one of the abovementioned fields, including significant experience with big aerospace manufacturers (Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier…). – Fluent English is mandatory for this role. – Engineering degree or equivalent is essential. – Applicants must be eligible to work in the UK as the contract will be UK-based.

Given the international scope of activities, we are looking at candidates with strong cultural awareness, ability to work against the pace and diverse activities of a decentralised SME, and willingness to learn.

What’s in it for you?
You will have the opportunity to start your career with us by growing our technical activities in China, where our business has well taken off since the last two years, leaving you with diverse work packages to manage and good prospects for development.
You will get a chance to learn about all of our business lines and to be trained to the highest European standards in aerospace.

How to apply? Please send a resume and state your availability and salary expectations. All applicants will receive feedback within 2 weeks’ time.