Development Quality Engineer - SAFRAN GB Limited

Development Quality Engineer (H/F) - SAFRAN SEATS GB LIMITED

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Salary: €35,000.00 – €42,000.00

Safran est un groupe international de haute technologie opérant dans les domaines de l'aéronautique (propulsion, équipements et intérieurs), de l'espace et de la défense. Sa mission : contribuer durablement à un monde plus sûr, où le transport aérien devient toujours plus respectueux de l'environnement, plus confortable et plus accessible. Implanté sur tous les continents, le Groupe emploie 100 000 collaborateurs pour un chiffre d'affaires de 27,3 milliards d'euros en 2024, et occupe, seul ou en partenariat, des positions de premier plan mondial ou européen sur ses marchés.

Safran est la 2ème entreprise du secteur aéronautique et défense du classement « World's Best Companies 2024 » du magazine TIME. Safran Seats est l'un des principaux fabricants mondiaux de sièges d'avion, tant pour l'équipage que pour les passagers. 1 million de sièges d'avion fabriqués par Safran Seats sont actuellement en service dans les flottes aériennes du monde entier.

The purpose of this role is to play a key role in ensuring the successful development and launch of new products by deploying quality methodologies, tools, and processes throughout the product lifecycle. The DQE works cross-functionally with engineering, industrialization, and purchasing to implement quality requirements, mitigate risks, and drive continuous improvement. A strong emphasis is placed on ensuring an efficient application of the development process and its milestones, a robust management of deviations, and the effective implementation of the APQP approach.

• Consolidate development project inputs in the early stages, and support the elaboration of the Project Development Plan
• Ensure that internal and external requirements are taken into account
• Ensure that lessons learned from previous projects (cross‑functional feedback) are leveraged
• Lead the APQP risk analysis at the beginning of the project
• Contribute to the identification of risks and opportunities related to design, industrialization, support, and services development
• Ensure that the maturity of project technologies is assessed and the related risks are evaluated
• Define the Development Quality Assurance Plan for the project
• Define quality targets for the project and corresponding performance indicators
• Contribute to project performance
• Foster co‑engineering. Ensure that the product design integrates early in the process the requirements related to industrialization, support, and service (e.g., maintainability and repairability)
• Implement the Development Quality Assurance Plan
• Consolidate quality performance indicators and implement corresponding action plans
• Manage the APQP timeline, coordinate deliverables maturity assessments and corresponding action plans. Ensure quality of deliverables
• Support development teams in the implementation of APQP core tools (DFMEA, PFMEA, MSA, SPC, Control Plans, and PPAP)
• Contribute to defining and flow‑downing APQP requirements towards suppliers
• Contribute with Technical Audit to Master Engineering Reviews preparation and to their pass/fail status assessment. Define recommendations accordingly
• Foster lessons learned capitalization
• Ensure application of the Safran Seats development process and propose improvements
• Promote the development process, control its proper application and support the development teams on this process
• Lead some root causes analyses for non‑quality events in Development, with the aim of preventing reoccurrence
• Contribute to continuous improvement of the Development Quality function
• Propose and implement improvements in processes, methods and tools for the Development Quality function and more generally for the development process
• Perform benchmarks with other entities

• Master's degree in engineering or equivalent
• Experience in a development quality or product development role (design, industrialization)
• Knowledge of quality standards (e.g., ISO 9001, AS 9100)
• Ability to interpret technical documentation (drawings, specifications, geometric…