Heat Treat Operator M/F

As a Heat Treat Operator, you\’ll play a key role in the processing and treatment of various components to ensure they meet stringent quality and specification requirements. You\’ll work to Nadcap standards and support continuous improvement activities within the Heat Treat Department, ensuring our furnaces and processes operate to the highest standard.

Responsibilities

• Operating to quality procedures as dictated by Nadcap requirements.
• Completing PIR sheets and all relevant process documentation.
• Reading engineering drawings and understanding process specifications.
• Masking and heat treating components using multiple processes (e.g. carburise, vacuum, salt bath hardening, tempering).
• Performing any heat treat process within the manufacturing route (training provided if required).
• Assessing data from recorders to ensure conformance to drawing and specification requirements.
• Conducting daily furnace monitoring (TPM) to ensure equipment is fit for purpose.
• Supporting quality control systems, investigations (non-conformance reviews, root cause analysis), and continuous improvement activities.
• Assisting in departmental continuous improvement initiatives.

Desired Skills & Qualifications

• Experience and knowledge of key Heat Treat processes.
• Ability to read and interpret technical drawings and specifications.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively within a team.
• Understanding of manufacturing-related quality procedures (desired).
• Experience working to Nadcap or similar aerospace quality standards (desired).
• Problem‑solving skills with a proactive approach to process improvement (desired).
• Calm under pressure and adaptable to change (desired).
• Ability to work using one\’s own initiative.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Company performance bonus scheme
• Pension scheme with up to 10% employer contribution
• Private medical insurance
• Comprehensive health cash plan
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
• Flexible benefits programme (buy & sell holiday allowance, discounted gym memberships, maternity/adoption leave, up to 52 weeks, first 26 weeks at full pay, subsequent 26 weeks at 50% basic pay and paternity/parent leave 4 weeks full pay)
• Structured training & opportunities to progress

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 Electronics & Defense offers its customers onboard intelligence solutions allowing them to understand the environment, reduce mental load and guarantee a trajectory, even in critical situations, in all environments: on land, at sea, in the sky or space. The company harnesses the expertise of its 13,000 employees towards these three functions: observe, decide and guide, for the civil and military markets.