Design Quality (Development Quality Engineer)

Join a leading team in this leading aerospace business, where airline brands meet innovative passenger experience!

Unique within aerospace, Safran interface with both the world's biggest airlines and airframers, with the largest seats portfolio of all seats suppliers.

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.

Safran is 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. Present on every continent, the Group employs 110,000 people and generated €31.3 billion in revenue in 2025. Safran holds, either independently or through partnerships, leading global or European positions in its markets.

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

With more than one million seats installed across the fleets of the world's leading airlines, Safran Seats is one of the global leaders in passenger, crew, aircraft and helicopter seating, delivering innovative, high value-added solutions.

In this role your responsibilities will be

• Contribute to Development projects performance
• Aiming for Right First-Time outcomes
• Challenge maturity of project inputs
• Support development project leaders
• Define development quality plans
• Management of risks and opportunities at the different steps of the projects, leveraging APQP
• Ensure development processes comply with internal and regulatory standards, are respected, and propose improvements
• Contribute to continuous improvement of the Development Quality function
• PPAP - Production part approval process

In this role your main tasks will be

• Consolidate development project inputs in the early stage
• Lead the APQP risk analysis at the beginning of the project
• Contribute to the identification of risks and opportunities related to design
• Consolidate the development plan in the early stage of the project
• Making the development plan consistent with the project initial maturity and the risks
• Define project quality assurance plan
• Identify required quality resources and skills
• Contribute to project performance during the development phase
• Co-engineering, ensure that the product design integrates early in the process
• Implement quality plans
• Manage the APQP timeline
• Ensure Quality of deliverables
• Contribute to management of risks and opportunities
• Prepare quality report for Master Engineering Reviews
• Promote the Develop process and control its proper application. Conduct flash audits
• Root causes analyses for non-quality events in Development
• Contribute to internal and external audits on the Develop process

About You...

• Quality Assurance working experience
• PPAP - Production part approval process
• Knowledge of Aerospace Regulations and Quality norms
• Product development experience (design, industrialisation)
• APQP standard implementation experience
• Project Management experience

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