Company: Safran Seats
Job field: Industrial Engineering
Location: Cwmbran, Wales, United Kingdom
Contract type: Permanent
Contract duration: Full-time
Professional status: Technician
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. In the UK, Safran Seats specializes 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.
The purpose of this role is to generate design data to aid the introduction of special purpose tools/fixtures for the assembly process within FAL and support concepts for future business improvements.
Key Responsibilities
1. Interpretation of design data to generate tools/fixtures that reduce NVA and improve capability of the process in line with Safran ergonomic standards.
2. Maintain traceability from design to manufacture.
3. Design/liaise within Safran group to standardise methodology.
4. Understanding the business processes and the manufacturing processes within the manufacturing unit and aerospace regulation requirements for all components.
5. Problem Solving – Working knowledge of A3, 4D and 8D problem-solving techniques.
6. Reporting – Regular and timely reporting of progress via meetings with line manager.
7. Regulatory – All required statutory and regulatory conditions are being met.
8. Lean – Understanding of modern manufacturing tools and techniques.
9. Risk – To proactively manage project risk, mitigating as necessary.
10. Progress – Deliverables are being completed within the required time scales.
11. Cost – Deliverables are being completed within the baseline cost plan.
12. Quality – Deliverables are being completed to defined expectations, right first time!
13. SHE – The required Safety, Health, Ergonomic and Environmental standards are being achieved.
Candidate Skills
The successful candidate will have a strong design and manufacturing engineering background with experience of working with component design and manufacture. The candidate will have an engineering accreditation such as an indentured apprenticeship, HNC/HND, or degree in a relevant engineering discipline. The role requires someone with experience of working with Enovia Smarteam, Catia V5, and Excel. Experience and knowledge of lean manufacturing practices would be advantageous but not essential.
No candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to hear from you!
Benefits
1. 25 days holiday + UK Bank Holidays
2. Benefits Programme, with a number of schemes such as cycle to work, technology savings, retail discounts, and access to private healthcare
3. Career Progression opportunities such as company sponsorship and further training courses
4. Family-friendly policies including maternity, paternity, adoptive parents, shared parental leave, parental leave, and flexible working
5. Equality & Diversity initiatives with internal groups for workplace engagement and involvement
6. STEM engagement with schools, colleges, and universities, and charitable activities for all
Please apply and submit your CV today! Once your CV has been reviewed, we will contact you with the next stages.
We want Safran Seats to be a workplace where everyone feels valued, can be themselves, and know they can reach their full potential. We embrace and celebrate our differences through various initiatives and support colleagues through a number of staff networks.
We're committed to building a strong, diverse workforce and making Safran Seats an inclusive place to work.
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