Engineering Project Lead

Engineering Project Lead

Permanent full-time position within the aerospace industry at Safran Seats, a premium designer and manufacturer of First and Business Class seating and technology.

• Job Role:
  
  Project Manager Level 1
• Domain:
  Performance and Support
• Job Field / Job Profile:
  Project management – Project manager level 1
• Professional Category:
  Professional, Engineer & Manager
• Job Type: Full-time
• Location:
  
  Europe, UK, Wales – Llantarnam Industrial Park NP44 3HQ
  Cwmbran

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, interfacing with both the world’s biggest airlines and airframers. In the UK, we specialise solely in the First Class and Business Class seating markets for wide-body aircraft, with teams based in Cwmbran and Newport, Wales, and Brackley, England.

Develop effective engineering project plans, track progress, resolve problems, develop solutions and forecast project and product cost performance. Coordinate with other functional units, identify and address project issues, gather and analyse data to support the development of solutions and recommendations to solve problems, meeting schedule commitments and optimising performance.

You act within a small team of peers without direct responsibility for staff. You manage across a functional matrix structure within the Technical Domain, focusing on effective planning and execution of Engineering projects to meet or exceed agreed performance metrics. You are the technical focal point for the project across the business and for customers and airframers.

• Support the IPT in identifying project risk, mitigation actions and contingency plans.
• Support the development of project plans, schedules and budgets.
• Track progress of project tasks across multi‑functional engineering teams.
• Resolve schedule conflicts and develop technical solutions with inputs from technical functional teams, ensuring high quality of technical deliverables.
• Provide a clear project status internally and to the customer.
• Track performance against budget.
• Engage with the customer to present technical solutions and their impact on programme schedule.
• Collate inputs to generate and maintain customer product specifications and create and maintain coherent work breakdown structures.
• Manage technical requirements relevant to the project scope through a systems engineering approach and track technical changes.

• 33 days holiday (including bank holidays).
• Industry‑leading pension scheme with salary sacrifice employer contributions up to 10%.
• Private medical cover (including Digital GP and rapid access physio with no excess) with ability to upgrade and cover family members.
• Salary sacrifice benefits scheme including cycle‑to‑work and Octopus EV Scheme.
• 4‑x Life Assurance.
• Interactive benefits platform with a wide range of discretionary benefits (technology, retail benefits, income protection).
• Enhanced family‑friendly policies and benefits (enhanced maternity and paternity leave) and employee assistance programme.
• Annual share save schemes.
• Option for hybrid and flexible working arrangements.
• Opportunities for career advancement, personal growth and training through Safran University and internal training schools.
• Corporate social responsibility activities (sustainability initiatives, charity, volunteering, STEM activities).

• HNC/HND within a related Engineering discipline.
• Previous experience managing multi‑functional teams, including remote working settings.
• Awareness of configuration management principles and change management processes.
• Understanding of financial management within a new product development environment, dealing with different…