Lead IPT Manufacturing Engineer (H/F) - SAFRAN SEATS GB LIMITED

In the UK, 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. As IPT lead manufacturing engineer, you will be responsible for leading a team of manufacturing engineers and technicians and ensuring product designs meet manufacturing and assembly requirements. You will have a solid background in new product introduction from a manufacturing environment.

Key Responsibilities will include:

• Ensure design reviews are supported at the right level and issues communicated, logged and resolved.
• Drive team to ensure design for assembly/manufacture issues are highlighted and eliminated at every key stage of the programme. Lead lessons learnt sessions of previous design issues at the beginning of projects.
• Work with other engineering functions to agree on development build requirements and ensure that builds are carried out and necessary improvements made.
• Ensure make vs buy activities are conducted on time and guided by the company's areas of core competency.
• Review the make vs buy strategy with the purchasing department and propose changes.
• Develop a production strategy with operations that will ensure customers' requirements are adequately met and estimate CAPEX requirement for tooling.
• Ensure wastes are eliminated during the design of the production process and the team is trained in the application of lean methodology.
• Ensure APQP & PPAP documentation are compiled and released at the correct level of quality and on time.
• Ensure PFMEAS are completed and all actions are closed. Periodically check aerospace standards for new updates to FMEA methodology.
• Work with systems engineering to agree on validation and verification requirements for new products. Ensure validation and verification requirements are built into the project plan.
• Ensure tools and equipment requirements are identified and budgeted for and specification documents capture not just functional requirements but ergonomic and health and safety requirements.
• Ensure industrialisation deliverables for key events such as PDR, CDR, Test builds, PTR and PPAP are planned and achieved.
• Ensure all industrialisation and production related issues are resolved before approving release of BOM.
• Recognise the need to carry out a route cause analysis to resolve an issue. Organise the required team and ensure the process is duly carried out.
• Check and approve engineering drawings ensuring effect of tolerances on the assembly process is taken into consideration.
• Ensure availability and accuracy of industrialisation timing plans for programmes. Use timing plans to manage and justify resource requirement. Propose, agree and implement mitigating actions for tasks on a critical path.
• Ensure programmes are on track as per programme and department gate schedules.

Candidate skills:

• B.Eng. in Mechanical, Manufacturing or Aerospace Engineering OR HND gained through an apprenticeship.
• Minimum of 10 years in an aerospace or automotive manufacturing environment.
• Proven experience of leading and developing a technical team.
• Experience of working within company and regulatory processes, standards and specifications.
• Excellent knowledge of design for manufacture and assembly principles.
• Good knowledge of manufacturing processes.
• Good knowledge and application of Lean Six Sigma principles.
• APQP & PPAP PFMEA Interrogation of 3D CAD modelling software.
• Ability to interpret 2D drawings CATIA 3D CAD modelling software.

No candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to hear from you!