Senior Materials and Process Engineer

Company: Safran Seats

Job field: Industrial Engineering

Location: Cwmbran, England, 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.

Role Purpose: Develop, implement, and maintain SGB Materials and Processes within the Engineering department, including the associated management of Material and Process specifications.

The role is across the Design and Manufacturing teams with an aim to support design for manufacture and design for cost for SGB products.

Responsibilities:

1. Responsible for timely release of Engineering data applicable to products, processes, and equipment related to Safran Seats GB and other Seats BU as applicable.
2. Provide the necessary expertise and support to the Design office and wider Engineering team for new product development and existing projects.
3. Support the qualification, equivalency, and audits of special processes.

Complementary Description

Support towards Design, Develop and Industrialisation activities:

1. As Subject Matter Expert on key topics relating to engineering Materials & Processes, support the engineering team by educating them on new materials and processes in accordance with engineering plans and industry standards.
2. Redaction and management of material and process specifications in his/her competency domain.
3. Provide technical support through his/her competency domain, in dealing with material and process non-conformities via appraisal of the parts which have presented a failure in test or in use.
4. Manage the obsolescence issues relating to materials and processes and ensure that alternative M&P commodities are qualified in time to support customer requests.

Specificity of the Job

Location: England, United Kingdom

Employees Worldwide: 92,000

Number of Countries where Safran is Located: 27