Are you passionate about technology or aviation? Come invent the solutions of tomorrow in the aerospace and defense industry, with an international group where innovation, teamwork and continuing, daily education are fundamental values. Join us!
Safran Cabin headquarters are in Huntington Beach, California, with a global presence of over 10,000 employees at 39 sites. Site locations are in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Canada, Germany, France, Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Tunisia and Thailand. Safran Cabin serves over 400 airlines and leasing companies globally and delivers to all airframe OEM manufacturers with a heritage spanning over 80 years in the industry.
Job Summary:
Safran Cabin pledges to offer its customers first class quality of delivered goods and service in continuous compliance with applicable international aerospace regulations and standards. Ensuring the sustainable safety, quality, reliability, and performance of Safran Cabin products and service to enhance customer confidence, and making Safran Cabin their primary supplier and partner.
The main objectives of the Manager, Quality are to:
• Ensure the conformity of products and/or services delivered from the site with technical specifications and customer requirements
• Guarantee that products are safe and in airworthiness conditions
• Ensure that only qualified products are permitted to ship to customers
• Ensure that there are no open non-conformances when delivering products from the site
• Manage and improve quality performances of products and services delivered to customers in all phases of product life cycle, in accordance with Safran Group and Safran Cabin operational excellence standards
• Monitor compliance and improvement of site QMS(s) processes and organization, in accordance with the Safran Group (One Safran) and Safran Cabin referential, and in accordance with international aerospace regulations and standards
• Record and address the causes of Customer returns
Reporting to the Director, Division Quality & Continuous Improvement, the Manager, Quality is accountable for the performance and results of a team of employees.
Additional description
Summary of Duties:
• Monitor the deployment of One Safran and Safran Cabin processes into site QMS(s), ensuring compliance with aerospace regulations and standards, as well as Safran standards
• Measure quality performance all along the manufacturing flow, from suppliers to external and external customer’s delivery, defines and monitors improvement actions plan (Bridge Plan) according to Safran and Safran Cabin requirements
• Define and implement Improvement Plans (Bridge Plan), and communicate these plans to the site team and customers
• Implement efficient processes to ensure compliance and safety of products delivered with customer specifications
• Support sites’ processes BPOs and BPMs into the operational deployment of One Safran and Safran Cabin management system across their processes and organization
• Build and maintain good customer relationships through Quality achievements delivered throughout the life of the program
• Defines efficient processes to guarantee the conformity and safety of the products delivered
• Monitor external and internal audits within the site and managing on-time closure of actions plans following external and internal audits
• Performs analysis of the maturity of the QMS(s), identifies potential risk and way of improvement, and monitor action plan in the relevant processes
• Implements Safran Cabin standard KPIs to achieve operational excellence
Travel specifictity
Traveling may be required.
Salary Range: USD $86,100 – $135,300.
Candidate skills & requirements
Safran’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) goes beyond our facility walls. We value and support the communities where we live and work. One of Safran’s values and CSR pillar is Corporate Citizenship that helps drive economic, social and cultural progress by sharing our gifts with those around us.
• Your Career: Safran is committed to providing internal mobility to our employees. We operate globally so the sky is the limit of where your Safran journey can take you.
• Your Development: Safran employees have free access to Safran University courses and external tuition reimbursement for approved programs or certifications.
• Your Benefits: Our suite of comprehensive benefits include health care (medical, dental and vision), life insurance, 401(k) savings plans with company match, paid time off, Safran Perks with BenefitHub – Employee Discounts & Rewards Marketplace for consumer products/services and more!
• Management roles may be eligible for a bonus in accordance with the terms of the applicable incentive plan.
Qualifications:
Education: Bachelor’s degree or higher
Experience: 10 years’ minimum experience in Quality or similar positions, with at least 5 years’ experience in a leadership role. Minimum 2 years’ experience in aerospace environment.
Computer Skills:
• Proficient knowledge and experience using Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
Other Skills:
• Knowledge of Aerospace and Defense industry and its regulations
• Expertise in QMS and process management
• Leadership capability especially in embarking in a share vision and empowering people
• Knowledge of Quality tools (measures in production, nonconformance, tracking, calibration, …)
• Receptiveness and ability and to foster teamwork
• Practical oral and writing communication skills
• Organization and management skills
• Integrity and exemplarity in all circumstances
• Ability to develop and maintain trusted relations with upper and lower management, and be able to explain issues in readily-understandable terms
• Proven interpersonal skills
• Ability to negotiate, to explain and to persuade
At Safran, diversity & inclusion is a source of richness that adds quality of life, performance, and innovation. We welcome diverse contributions and provide equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/gender expression, marital status, pregnancy, age, national origin, ancestry, disability/medical condition, military or veteran status, citizenship status, genetic characteristics or information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, and local laws.
Annual salary
USD 86,100 – 135,300
Job location
Job location
North America, United States, California
City (-ies)
Santa Maria
Applicant criteria
Minimum education level achieved
Bachelor’s Degree
Minimum experience level required
More than 8 years
Additional Languages preferred
English (Fluent)