Engineering Project Lead - Production Deviations

Domain

Performance and Support

Project management - Project manager level 1

Engineering Project Lead - Production Deviations

Permanent

Professional, Engineer & Manager

Full-time

Are you interested in working at the business end of Aerospace, where airline brand meets innovative passenger experience? Then your next opportunity could be with Safran Seats, an industry award winning, premium designer and manufacturer of First and Business Class seating and technology. Our passenger experience prides itself on innovation, customization, quality and industrial design.

At Safran Seats, we are unique within aerospace, as we interface with both the world's biggest airlines and airframers alike, with the largest seats portfolio of all seats suppliers. One day you could be liaising with one of the world's largest airframers, and the next, some of the biggest airline brands around the world!

In the UK, Safran Seats specialises solely in the First Class and Business Class seating markets for wide body aircraft, with industrial and engineering teams in Cwmbran and Newport, Wales and Brackley, England.

Job Summary:

The role will provide overall management and coordination of SGB's Permits & Concessions process across the entire NPD lifecycle including live and post design projects to agreed KPIs.

You will be a key individual contributor and part of the Safran Seats GB Engineering Projects office. You will provide support to projects and engineering across Delivery, Test and Prototyping, and Sustaining Production.

• Provide overall management and coordination of SGB's Permits & Concessions process across live projects and post design projects, acting as a focal within the business for all matters relating to Permits & Concessions.
• Oversee and manage the activities of the SGB Permits & Concessions team ensuring delivery to agreed KPIs.
• Drive improvement into the end-to-end turnaround time for Permits & Concessions, facilitating all functional inputs and approvals to expedite the process where required.
• Act as a liaison between the Engineering IPT's, Permits & Concessions team, and Manufacturing, heightening the knowledge of product designs amongst our production teams, and increasing knowledge of Manufacturing processes amongst Engineering teams.
• Proactively respond to problems in the production or assembly of parts, subsystems and products.
• To facilitate clear concise communication of proposed solutions to across the Engineering and Manufacturing teams to ensure quick and appropriate resolution of design / manufacturing issues.
• Ensure that permits and concessions clearly define the intent of the deviation request including a proposed disposition in order to appropriately facilitate efficient downstream activities, such as signatory reviews and approvals and / or the implementation of engineering changes or industrialisation improvements.
• Contribute to the completion of Engineering Change Requests (ECRs) for the implementation of permanent solutions.

• 33 days holiday (including bank holidays).
• Industry leading pension scheme with salary sacrifice employer contributions up to 10%.
• Private medical cover (to include Digital GP and rapid access Physio with no excess) with ability to upgrade level of benefit and cover family members.
• Access to salary sacrifice benefits scheme including cycle to work and Octopus EV Scheme.
• 4 x Life Assurance.
• Interactive benefits platform including wide range of discretionary benefits including technology, retail benefits, income protection.
• Enhanced family friendly policies and benefits (enhanced maternity and paternity leave) and employee assistance programme.
• Annual share save schemes.
• Option for hybrid and flexible working arrangements.
• Opportunities for career advancement and personal growth. Benefit from support through Safran University and our internal Training and Development Schools.
• Get involved in our corporate social responsibility activities from sustainability initiatives, charity and…