NEW ROLE - Manufacturing Engineer

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

Safran's 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.

Join our team!

Our Industrialisation Department is responsible for the development and introduction of exciting new and updated products into production on time, to cost and to a high quality standard.

This is brilliant opportunity for you to join Safran as a Manufacturing Engineer where you'll harness your knowledge and understanding of the new product introduction process and work at an advanced beginner/competent level.

As Manufacturing Engineer you will be responsible for complex projects & will work closely with other functions like design engineering to ensure the product designs meet manufacturing and assembly requirements. As well as...

- Participate in design reviews for new product introduction process
- Evaluate new product designs using 3D CAD model and mock-ups and log issues
- Co-ordinate design for assembly/manufacture reviews
- Ensure development mock-ups are built to schedule.
- Make improvement suggestions and validate solutions
- Work with the purchasing and design departments
- Calculate production capacity requirements based on customers' demand an
- Estimate build times and required number of stations for new production processes and carry out line balancing of operations
- Produce APQP & PPAP documentation - process flow, PFMEA, control plan, work instructions, MSA & capability studies
- Prepare and lead PFMEA reviews.
- Perform validation and verification of product design to satisfy customers quality and performance expectations
- Support the programme team in the delivery of industrialisation milestones (PDR, CDR, Test builds, PTR and PPAP)
- Check accuracy of BOM against build requirements
- Participate in and contribute to route cause analysis sessions
- Communicate tasks on a critical path to programme team

Take your career to new hights

You'll be...

- B.Eng. in Mechanical, Manufacturing or Aerospace Engineering OR HND gained through an apprenticeship

- HNC in Mechanical, Manufacturing or Aerospace Engineering - apprenticeship

- Min 2 years of experience in an aerospace or automotive manufacturing environment

- Knowledge of design for manufacture and assembly principles

- Knowledge of manufacturing processes

- Experience of 3D CAD modelling software

- Interpret 2D drawings

- Expwerience of working in company and regulatory processes

- Expeirence of CATIA 3D CAD modelling software

- Understanding of aircraft certification process wpould be a nice add