Design Quality (Development Quality Engineer)

Join a leading aerospace business, where airline brands meet innovative passenger experience!

Your next opportunity with Safran Seats, an industry award winning, premium designer and manufacturer of First and Business Class seating and technology.

Safran Seats specialises 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.

Contributing to sustainably for 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.

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

Your Responsibilities in the Role
- Contribute to Right First-Time outcomes
- Challenge maturity of project inputs
- Support development project leaders
- Define development quality plans
- Management of risks and opportunities, leveraging APQP
- Ensure development processes comply with internal and regulatory standards
- Contribute to continuous improvement
- PPAP - Production part approval process

Your Main Tasks
- Consolidate development project inputs early on
- Lead APQP risk analysis - Identification of risks and opportunities related to design, industrialisation, support, and services development
- Making the development plan consistent with the project initial maturity
- Define project quality assurance plan
- Identify required quality resources and skills
- Contribute to project performance during the development phase
- Co-engineering product design integration early in the process related to industrialisation, support, and service
- Implement quality plans
- Manage the APQP timeline
- Ensure Quality of deliverables
- Contribute to management of risks and opportunities
- Prepare quality report for Master Engineering Reviews.
- Implementing, validating, and qualifying resources whenever relevant (test benches, prototypes, testing means, etc.)
- Promote Develop process and control its proper application. Conduct flash audits
- Root causes analyses for non-quality events in Development
- Contribute to internal and external audits on the Develop process

About You...
- Quality Assurance working experience
- PPAP - Production part approval process
- Knowledge of Aerospace Regulations and Quality norms
- Product development experience (design, industrialisation)
- APQP standard implementation experience
- Project Management experience