Design Quality (Development Quality Engineer)

Safran Seats - an industry award winning, premium designer and manufacturer of First and Business Class seating and technology. Unique within aerospace, we work with both the world's biggest airlines and airframers alike, with the largest seats portfolio of all seats suppliers.

Safran Seats UK specialise 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.

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.

Safran was ranked second in the Aerospace & Defense sector in TIME magazine's ""World's Best Companies 2025"" ranking.

With more than one million seats installed across the fleets of the world's leading airlines, Safran Seats is one of the global leaders in passenger, crew, aircraft and helicopter seating, delivering innovative, high value-added solutions.

You'll be responsible for...

• Contributing to Development projects performance, aiming for Right First-Time outcomes
• Challenging maturity of project inputs and foster anticipation and prevention, relying on lessons learned
• Supporting development project leaders in the elaboration and implementation of development plans. Define development quality plans.
• Contribute to the management of risks and opportunities at the different steps of the projects, leveraging APQP
• Ensuring development processes comply with internal and regulatory standards, are respected, and propose improvements
• Contributing to continuous improvement of the Development Quality function

Main Tasks

• Consolidate development project inputs in the early stage of the development project
• 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
• Consolidate the development plan in the early stage of the project
• Contribute to making the development plan consistent with the project initial maturity and the risks and opportunities identified in the preliminary phase
• Define project quality assurance plan
• Identify required quality resources and skills
• Contribute to project performance during the development phase
• Foster co-engineering. Ensure that the product design integrates early in the process requirements related to industrialization, support, and service (e.g., maintainability and repairability)
• Implement quality plans
• Manage the APQP timeline, coordinate deliverables maturity assessments and corresponding action plans.

Quality of deliverables

• Contribute to management of risks and opportunities
• Prepare quality report for Master Engineering Reviews.
• Assist teams in implementing, validating, and qualifying resources whenever relevant (test benches, prototypes, testing means, etc.)
• Promote the Develop process and control its proper application. Conduct flash audits
• Lead some root causes analyses for non-quality events in Development, with the aim of preventing reoccurrence and leveraging lessons learned
• Contribute to internal and external audits on the Develop process

What You'll Bring

• Quality Assurance working experience
• Knowledge of Aerospace Regulations and Quality norms
• Product development experience (design, industrialisation)
• APQP standard implementation experience
• Project Management experience