Inspection and Assembly Methods Manager

• Ensure HSE compliance through risk assessments
• Ensure regulatory compliance and prepare teams for internal and external audits
• Prioritise and manage Inspection & Assembly Methods workload in alignment with customer and internal stakeholder expectations.
• Drive inspection performance, monitor KPIs, and hold teams accountable to goals while addressing risks proactively
• Manage the development of the Assembly and Inspection Methods
• Manage the industrialisation process, ensuring manufacturability and product robustness in compliance with safety, cost, quality, deadline, and HSE objective
• Manage the realisation, implementation, and validation of all production systems, including Production Part Approval Process (PPAP)
• Serve as the Assembly focal point for test equipment, managing supplier relationships and resolving issues
• Manage the budget for Inspection and Assembly Methods teams
• Prepare and justify CAPEX investments for transformation initiatives
• Proven leadership experience managing inspection/quality/manufacturing engineering/assembly methods teams
• Strong knowledge of aerospace regulatory requirements, inspection, assembly, and industrialisation processes
• Experience managing industrialisation, APQP, PPAP validation, and production chain optimisation
• Strong project management skills and experience leading transformation and CAPEX projects
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and conflict resolution skills
• Ability to drive continuous improvement, change management, and operational efficiency
• Business acumen with a strategic mindset balanced with operational execution
• Proactive, analytical, and autonomous problem solver with high integrity
• Strong understanding and ability to present to cross function stakeholders in and outside of the business
• Experience with coaching and mentoring with a focus particularly on building technical capability
• Strong functional knowledge and working of MES

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Safran is an international high-technology group operating in the fields of aerospace (propulsion, equipment and interiors), space and defense. Its mission is to contribute sustainably to a safer world, where air transport becomes ever more environmentally friendly, comfortable and accessible. Present on every continent, the Group employs 110,000 people and generated €31.3 billion in revenue in 2025. Safran holds, either independently or through partnerships, leading global or European positions in its markets.

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