Engineering Project Lead (PDS)

Engineering Project Lead (PDS)

Published 07.10.2024

Company: Safran Seats

Job field: Project management

Location: Cwmbran, Wales, United Kingdom

Contract type: Permanent

Contract duration: 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 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.

An Engineering Project Lead is a senior and key role at Safran. It requires an excellent project manager and a real problem solver - a go-to natural leader in the team. A strong communicator with the ability to converse at all levels is essential to succeed.

Managing across a functional matrix structure within the Technical Domain of the business, your responsibility is focused on effective planning and execution of engineering projects to meet or exceed the agreed performance metrics. You will be the Technical focal point for the project under your responsibility, across the entire business and also Customer and Airframer facing.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Supporting the IPT in identifying project risk, mitigation actions, and contingency plans
2. Supporting the development of project plans, schedules, and budgets
3. Tracking progress of project tasks across multi-functional engineering teams
4. Resolving schedule conflict and developing technical solutions with inputs from the Technical Functional teams, ensuring high levels of quality deliverables
5. Providing a clear project status both internally and to the customer
6. Tracking performance against budget for NRC and RC
7. Ensuring effective management of large work packages across the group business units or with partners
8. Liaising with the customer to present technical solutions and their impact on program schedule
9. Collating inputs to generate and maintain customer product specifications, creating and maintaining coherent work breakdown structures
10. Managing technical requirements relevant to your project scope, through a systems engineering approach, tracking technical changes
11. Participating in Design Reviews throughout each phase of the New Product Introduction process

Job Requirements:

• HNC/HND within a related Engineering discipline is essential
• Engineering Degree within an Aerospace related discipline desirable
• Previous experience managing multi-functional teams including within a remote working setting
• A good understanding of the certification framework within which the work is undertaken, preferably with some knowledge of Aircraft Interiors
• An awareness of configuration management principles and change management processes
• Experienced in preparation of business cases or bids for new programs including Technical specification preparation desirable
• An understanding of financial management within a new product development environment, dealing with different categories of costs that are both internal and external to the business
• Product development and associated processes
• Systems Engineering (Requirements Engineering, MBSE, Functional design)
• Mechanical, electrical, and systems design

As a valued member of our team, these are just a few of the benefits you'll receive:

• 25 days holiday + UK Bank Holidays
• Benefits Programme, with a number of schemes such as cycle to work, technology savings, retail discounts, and access to private healthcare
• Career Progressions opportunities such as company sponsorship and further training courses
• Family-friendly policies including maternity, paternity, adoptive parents, shared parental leave, parental leave, and flexible working
• Equality & Diversity initiatives with internal groups for workplace engagement and involvement
• STEM engagement with schools, colleges, and universities and Charitable activities for all

Specificity of the job:

The role is based in Cwmbran, Wales and occasional travel will be required including to international locations (suppliers, customers, and other Safran sites).