Design Quality (Quality Engineer)

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, as we interface with both the world's biggest airlines and airframers alike, with the largest seats portfolio of all seats suppliers.

Safran is an international high-technology group, operating in the aviation (propulsion, equipment and interiors), defense and space markets. Its core purpose is to contribute to a safer, more sustainable world, where air transport is more environmentally friendly, comfortable and accessible. Safran has a global presence, with 100,000 employees and sales of 27.3 billion euros in 2024, and holds, alone or in partnership, world or regional leadership positions in its core markets.
Safran is in the 2nd place in the aerospace and defense industry in TIME magazine's "World's best companies 2024" ranking.

Safran Seats is one of the world's leading manufacturers of aircraft seats, for both crew and passengers. 1 million Safran Seats-manufactured aircraft seats are currently in service with air fleets around the world.

Your Role
- Contribute to Development projects performance, aiming for Right First-Time outcomes
- Challenge maturity of project inputs and foster anticipation and prevention, relying on lessons learned
- Support 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
- Ensure that development processes comply with internal and regulatory standards, are respected, and propose improvements
- Contribute 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. Ensure 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