About This Role
Airbus Commercial Aircraft is seeking a Test Pilot for its Engineering department in Mobile, Alabama. The role executes ground and flight tests on A220 and A320 production aircraft, assumes responsibility for flight safety and test-plan compliance, approves flight conditions under Airbus delegation, coordinates with flight-test and engineering teams, supports customer delivery activities, and may assist other flight-test centers, training departments, external flights and industry events.
Duties & Responsibilities
- The Test Pilot is responsible for the entire flight, including signing the flight order prepared and co-signed by the L-FTE. Acting as Captain under DOA privilege and by delegation of the Head of Flight Test, the pilot approves flight conditions according to Airbus procedures and strictly follows the authorized flight-test plan. Based on real-time flight analysis, instrumentation issues, changing weather or aircraft serviceability, the L-FTE may modify the plan in flight with the Captain’s concurrence, provided the authorized flight envelope and aircraft limitations are respected
- the Captain retains the right to delete unsuitable items from the flight order. The pilot attends post-flight technical debriefs, liaises with Engineering to resolve faults and observations, and ensures all ground and in-flight arrangements, briefings and dispatch coordination support safe and efficient operations. The role also involves continuous customer engagement during delivery, communicating Airbus-approved positions on industry and flight-test matters, assisting Training Departments, conducting external flights such as lease-recovery, developmental and commercial-event flights, supporting other flight-test centers in Toulouse, Hamburg, Tianjin and Mirabel, and attending or presenting at conferences.
What We Offer
Airbus offers a competitive base salary, incentive compensation that may include profit-sharing schemes, a retirement savings plan and participation in an Employee Stock Ownership Plan.Benefits include paid personal time off, holidays and generous paid parental leave, plus comprehensive medical, prescription, dental, vision, life, disability, Employee Assistance Plan and supplemental insurance coverage.Employees receive upskilling and development opportunities through Airbus Leadership University, including unlimited access to more than 10,000 e-learning courses, certifications, career-path development, accelerated development programs and national and international mobility opportunities.Airbus also supports flexible working arrangements wherever possible.
Requirements
- Applicants must be graduates of an EASA-recognized flight-test school, including ETPS, EPNER, USNTPS, USAFTPS, NTPS or ITPS, with 3,000+ total flight hours and more than 1,000 hours of flight-test-pilot experience.
- The role requires a current multi-pilot instrument-rating ICAO ATPL eligible for conversion to an EASA ATPL, ICAO English Level 5 and recent Fly-By-Wire experience.
- Candidates must communicate effectively, resolve problems, facilitate consensus, work independently and collectively in a dynamic environment, and be dependable, self-motivated and accessible.
- The position requires authorization to work in the United States, the ability to travel unaccompanied internationally for approximately three months, and flexibility to work extended hours, nights, weekends and holidays.
- It is an onsite role requiring the ability to work safely around production areas, use office and production equipment, read screens and engineering documents, hear alarms, communicate clearly, carry and lift equipment up to 30 lb/14 kg, push and pull equipment, sit, stand, squat, kneel and walk across uneven surfaces.
- Required personal protective equipment includes safety shoes, safety glasses, hearing protection, respirators or masks, and protective gloves as required by the site or customer site.