Job description

Safran Cabin Materials located in Marysville, WA is recruiting for a:

Quality Manager
$85k-$133k

Safran Cabin pledges to offer its customers first class quality of delivered goods and service in continuous compliance with applicable international aerospace regulations and standards. Ensuring the sustainable safety, quality, reliability, and performance of Safran Cabin products and service to enhance customer confidence, and making Safran Cabin their primary supplier and partner.

The main objectives of the Manager, Quality are to:
Ensure the conformity of products and/or services delivered from the site with technical specifications and customer requirements.
Guarantee that products are safe and in airworthiness conditions.
Ensure that only qualified products are permitted to ship to customers.
Ensure that there are no open non-conformances when delivering products from the site.
Manage and improve quality performances of products and services delivered to customers in all phases of product life cycle, in accordance with Safran Group and Safran Cabin operational excellence standards.
Monitor compliance and improvement of site QMS(s) processes and organization, in accordance with the Safran Group (One Safran) and Safran Cabin referential, and in accordance with international aerospace regulations and standards.
Record and address the causes of Customer returns.

Reporting to the Director, Division Quality & Continuous Improvement, the Manager, Quality is accountable for the performance and results of a team of employees.

Job duties include but are not limited to:
Monitor the deployment of One Safran and Safran Cabin processes into site QMS(s), ensuring compliance with aerospace regulations and standards, as well as Safran standards.
Measure quality performance all along the manufacturing flow, from suppliers to external and external customer's delivery, defines and monitors improvement actions plan (Bridge Plan) according to Safran and Safran Cabin requirements.
Define and implement Improvement Plans (Bridge Plan), and communicate these plans to the site team and customers.
Implement efficient processes to ensure compliance and safety of products delivered with customer specifications.
Support sites' processes BPOs and BPMs into the operational deployment of One Safran and Safran Cabin management system across their processes and organization.
Build and maintain good customer relationships through Quality achievements delivered throughout the life of the program.
Defines efficient processes to guarantee the conformity and safety of the products delivered.
Monitor external and internal audits within the site and managing on-time closure of actions plans following external and internal audits.
Performs analysis of the maturity of the QMS(s), identifies potential risk & way of improvement, and monitor action plan in the relevant processes.
Implements Safran Cabin standard KPIs to achieve excellence.

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Job requirements

Bachelor's degree or higher.
10 years' minimum experience in Quality or similar positions, with at least 5 years' experience in a leadership role. Minimum 2 years' experience in aerospace environment.
Computer Skills:
Proficient knowledge and experience using Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
Knowledge of Aerospace and Defense industry and its regulations.
Expertise in QMS and process management.
Leadership capability especially in embarking in a share vision and empowering people .
Knowledge of Quality tools (measures in production, nonconformance, tracking, calibration, etc.).
Receptiveness and ability and to foster teamwork.
Practical oral and writing communication skills.
Organization and management skills.
Integrity and exemplarity in all circumstances.
Ability to develop and maintain trusted relations with upper and lower management, and be able to explain issues in readily-understandable terms.
Proven interpersonal skills.
Ability to negotiate, to explain and to persuade.

Working Conditions:
Does require fluent communication in English.
Employment Status will be full-time.
Traveling may be required.
Relocation to another Safran facility may be required.

The above declarations are not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities of the job described, nor are they intended to be such a listing of the skills and abilities required to do the job, rather, they are intended only to describe the general nature of the job.

Safran Cabin is an “at-will” employer, which means that employment is at the mutual consent of both the employee and the employer, and may be terminated at will, for any reason, with or without cause at any time during your employment with the Company. No one other than the CEO of the Company can enter into an agreement of employment for a specified period of time or make any agreement or representation contrary to this policy. Further, any such agreement must be in writing and signed by the CEO of the Company.

Safran Cabin Materials requires a criminal background check and drug screen to be completed and passed for all positions.

This position is an ITAR governed position: **Must be a US Citizen or Permanent Resident to qualify**.