Project Engineer

Safran companies; Cwmbran; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 65,000

Job description

Company: Safran Seats

Job field: Project management

Location: Cwmbran, England, United Kingdom

Contract type: Permanent

Contract duration: Full-time

Professional status: Employees / Staff

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, customisation, 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.

As a Project Engineer, you will provide technical support, work package collaboration, and project management across a range of Engineering projects.

You will be a key individual contributor and part of the Safran Seats GB Engineering Project Management office. You will be deployed to the projects in either Early Engagement, Delivery, Test and Prototyping, and/or Sustaining Production.

Key Responsibilities and Duties:

1. Understand and facilitate Time Cost and Quality in the Product Development and/or R&T Lifecycle.
2. Actively engage and develop in Project Governance and Methods and Tools to complete the project to the contractual and customer requirements.
3. Manage stakeholders from multiple Engineering and non-Engineering disciplines to enable a successful project.
4. Be able to manage change and requirements of product development.
5. Comfortable with project management methods and tools to provide regular updates on progress and support needed to the Engineering management.
6. Analyse and prioritise data and actions according to business needs.
7. Contribute to contract, funding and commercial negotiations.
8. Support the product engineering with the handover of technology and transition to the manufacturing process.
9. Perform peer reviews of data, analysis and reports for other team members.
10. Ensure product development is compliant with aircraft certification requirements utilising the expertise of the team.

Job Requirements:

1. Have industrial experience in product development, production engineering or research & development field within engineering.
2. Have experience of project management, methods and tools.
3. Have experience of planning and influencing project results.
4. Be self-reliant, hardworking, pro-active, motivated and an achiever.
5. Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing using the English language including verbal and written presentations.
6. Able to establish good working relationships across departments and with customers.
7. Being qualified to NVQ L4 or HNC level in an engineering field is essential.
8. Have knowledge in the design of software, electrical and electronic systems or Composite, plastic, and additive manufactured components.
9. Demonstrate strong communication skills including verbal, written and formal presentations.
10. Have strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a pragmatic hands-on approach, including the use of appropriate data handling software.
11. Good working knowledge of Microsoft applications (e.g. Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project, Access).
12. Full UK driving license and valid passport essential as travel may be required.

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!

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

1. 25 days holiday + UK Bank Holidays.
2. Benefits Programme, with a number of schemes such as cycle to work, technology savings, retail discounts.
3. Career Progressions 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.

Specificity of the job:

Some UK and international travel is to be anticipated, visiting Group companies, and suppliers (approx. 10% of role).