Job Description

We are looking for hiring a Manufacturing Engineering Manager for manufacturing engineering team.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide technical support to the Manufacturing Engineering function in order to assure manufacturability.
• Increase Manufacturing Engineers expertise by developing tools, skills and procedures in accordance with Safran Corporate guidelines.

Responsibilities

Deploy and maintain tools
• Support introduction of new PDM system (Product Data Management)
• Ensure availability and reliability of all technical data required to support manufacturing (manufacturing file)
• Contribute to the digital/seamless design roadmap by collecting/assessing specific needs related to technical design and process

Develop expertise
• Maintain internal procedures (manufacturing engineering standard) to assure products manufacturability and quality objectives
• Train new Manufacturing Engineers
• Coordinate development of expertise within the manufacturing engineering community (~ 6 engineers reporting to 2 Production Unit Managers)
• Ensure company policy and best practices are implemented in a consistent manner within the 2 Production Units
• Liaise with Safran Electronics & Defense' Actuation Business Unit and Electronics Operations Center networks to share and promote best practices
Leadership
• Participate to Plant Board Committee to support technical-related issues
• Functional management of manufacturing engineering (direct reporting to Production Unit Managers)

Job Requirements

Skills

Good experience in manufacturing facility, preferably high technology products and international footprint

• Technology: Electronics Assembly and Mechanical Engineering
• Able to read/analyze/challenge technical specification and drawings
• Familiar with PLM (Product Life Management) and ERP systems
• Information Systems: general knowledge of systems and applications development processes
• Manufacturing Excellence: knowledge of Lean / 6 Sigma / TWI (Training With Industry) methodologies / Quality Systems

Soft Skills:
• Analytical and problem solving skills
• Organized, accurate, results oriented
• Project management
• Fluent in English

Company Information

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.