APQP QA Development Engineer - Military veterans preferred

Job Description

Location: Twinsburg, OH

The Project/Design Quality Assurance Engineer is responsible for ensuring project integrity and feedback to the customer of any required quality topics identified through internal or external audit / monitoring.
This role will assist members of the Program/Design/Industrialization team in the achievement of project quality, customer satisfaction and quality improvement targets, helping to make design processes more robust.

Dimensions
•Project/Design Quality Assurance Engineer will interface directly with the customer and regulatory authorities.
•Project Quality Assurance Engineer will act as the subject matter expert for quality tools and techniques applied in operations.
•Project Quality Assurance Engineer is the point of escalation for quality matters with the customer and within the project team.
•No direct budget responsibility – but will identify training needs, system weaknesses and opportunities to improve methods of functional and business working through audits and make recommendations for the appropriate expenditure to deliver these actions.

Principal accountabilities
•Prepares and implements the program/project quality plan in line with SAFRAN referential and customer requirements, and provides support on other Program/Project plans
•Contributes to the preparation and represents quality at project/program gate reviews.
•Participates in project risks/opportunities reviews and ensures that acceptable levels of risk have been agreed and communicated internally with action plan.
•Participates in change control board reviews where required.
•Takes timely and relevant containment actions and ensure traceability investigations are carried out as required.
•Leads on customer interaction for quality escapes and request for customer approvals in conjunction with technical, operations & programmes.
•Ensures compliance with all customer, regulatory, ISO9001 and AS9100 requirements and audits and actively lead the closure of any corrective actions or required improvements.
•Leads the process, system or product audits as required and ensures deployment through themselves and the team.
•Ensures all necessary information and facts are gathered relating to quality issues within the business ensuring they are appropriately documented and communicated to relevant stakeholders.
•Ensures robust corrective actions are assigned and delivered across all parts of the business.
•Key contributor to the Project/Programs rituals: Monthly Programme Reviews,

Monthly Quality Reviews, etc.
•Integration of Quality throughout the System/Product Design Review process;
•Drive standardised mitigation plans in order to prevent/mitigate risk linked to the product and its related processes;
•Facilitate and support root cause analysis & practical problem solving activities
•Supporting the lessons learned process in order to improve organization efficiency and product maturity;

Job Requirements

•Integrate the Quality standard methodologies into the Engineering/Program Teams through regular maturity/audits assessments and follow on sessions;
•Drive and manage improvement projects in order to support the achievement of the Engineering/Program targets;
•Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities into the Engineering/Program Teams;
•Support the deployment of Quality standards;
•Assist Design Engineering teams as the Design Quality Engineer focal point;
•Establish and drive corrective and preventive action plans in order to support the improvement of project/program performance;
•Support Development Deviations management (Problem Solving/8D, Concessions, Milestones Recommendations, Audits NC, …)
•Support the definition of a set of measurable criteria for the quality of the relevant project/program deliverables / Ensure the quality of Project/Program Deliverables (compliance with internal, regulatory and customers standards/requirements)
•Reviewing design and development paperwork and records for compliance to internal procedures and regulations
•Reviewing technical reports as well as documents for Design History Files
•Participating in design risk management activities including, DFMEA, PFMEA
•Reviewing and coordinating with V&V for all test method and design validations
•Evaluates designs for conformance to engineering principles, customer requirements, and Safran standards
•Brainstorms ideas to create solutions for identified problems
•Contributes to Project/Program Maturity assessment and enhancement
•Ensures or provides support to Supplier Quality Assurance regarding selection and monitoring of the design contractors and parts suppliers quality
•Ensures the quality of the Industrial Validation
•Ensures that the Configuration and Change Management processes are correctly carried out
•Checks the compliance of development means and of the products used for -Development and Qualification tests

Key performance measures
•Project milestone adherence.
•Project audit plan adherence.
•Site audit & flash audit plan adherence.
•Ensure corrective actions are closed within time limits.
•Customer satisfaction.
•Maintain and improved Departmental Policy Deployment targets/objectives.

Knowledge, skills and experience

•Proven customer management experience, effective customer communications, and ability to appropriately address customer issues and influence and align with wider business requirements.
•Solid understanding of contractual and regulatory requirements including ISO9001 and AS9100.
•Proven technical experience of Engineering, Industrialization, manufacturing and quality processes
•Lead auditor trained preferred
•Ability to lead quality investigation and compile appropriate reports and coach others
•Strong analytical and diagnostic skills with the ability to solve problems using tools such as Process FMEA/8D/SPC
•Drives to completion, self-motivated and able to prioritize own workload

But what else? (advantages, specific features, etc.)

•Effective written and verbal communication skills across all levels of the organization
•IT literate – MS Office software
•Education & Qualification: Science or Engineering Bachelor degree (desirable)
•Work Experience and Knowledge: 3 to 5 years experience in aerospace industry or equivalent at engineering, design & development or quality positions
•APQP Tools knowledge and domain, PDCA, DMAIC and other related tools knowledge
•Configuration and data management
•Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of variables in situations where only limited standardization exists
•Ability to manage multiple tasks
•Good leadership, initiative and execution
•Ability to convince, accept responsibility, adaptability-flexibility
•Ideally, experience with ARP-4754A and/or DO-178 and/or DO-254 standards

Key relationships

•Works closely with Programme & Engineering Managers who own the overall customer relationship. Needs to ensure communications are aligned
•Works closely with project team to ensure project quality is aligned to the programme goals
•Key contact with customers
•Schedules timetable of meetings with customer – preparing presentation material
•Daily or weekly customer calls to address specific issues that may have arisen

Decision Making Authority
•Customer & regulatory communications – level of information
•Develop customer quality plans
•Develop and maintain project audit schedule
•Perform own adhoc audits if need identified

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 Electrical & Power is one of the world's leaders in aircraft electrical systems. The company is a key player in equipment electrification and in the electric and hybrid propulsion sector. It has over 14,000 employees across 13 different countries.