Location: Twinsburg

The Project/Design Quality Assurance Engineer is responsible for ensuring project integrity and compliance with Safran quality rules and commitments.

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.

The incumbent will be the main interface of the customer for quality topics.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
•Project Quality Assurance Engineer will act as the subject matter expert for quality tools and techniques applied in operations.
•Prepares and implements the quality plan in line with SAFRAN referential and customer requirements and provides support on other Program/Project plans.
•Guarantees the proper application of Safran rules and customers' requirements, and ensures compliance with regulatory, ISO9001 and AS9100 requirements
•Project/Design Quality Assurance Engineer will interface directly with the customer and regulatory authorities.
•Contributes to the preparation and represents quality at project/program gate reviews.
•Drives mitigation plans in order to prevent/mitigate risks, establishes and drives corrective and preventive action plans in order to support the improvement of project/program performance, facilitates and supports root cause analysis & practical problem solving activities ...
•Assists Design Engineering teams as the Design Quality Engineer focal point
•Contributes to Project/Program Maturity assessment and enhancement
•Provides support to Supplier Quality Assurance regarding selection and monitoring of the design contractors and parts suppliers quality
•Ensures the quality of Design and Industrial Validation
•Ensures that the processes are correctly carried out: Configuration and Change Management processes
•Other duties may be assigned

Additional description
Physical Demands:
•Office environment with moderate noise levels.
•Occasional need to be on shop floor, requiring safety glasses, safety shoes, and ability to stand for long periods.

Work Environment:
•Design Office environment

This description has been designed to indicate the general nature & level of work performed by an employee within this position. The actual duties, responsibilities & qualifications may vary based on assignment or group. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic data, or other legally protected status. Safran Electrical & Power is committed to working with & providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with physical & mental disabilities. To verify the information in the job listing or if you need special assistance or an accommodation while seeking employment, please call 330-487-2000. We will decide on your request for reasonable accommodation on a case-by-case basis.

Candidate skills & requirements
Education and/or Experience:
•Associates Degree in a related field preferred.
•Possess a minimum of 5 years' experience in design quality role preferred in an aerospace company or an automotive company.
•Proven customer management experience, effective customer communications, and ability to appropriately address customer issues, 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 investigations, compile appropriate reports, and coach others.
•Effective written and verbal communication skills across all levels of the organization.
•APQP, 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.
•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.

•This position requires use of information or access to hardware which is subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). All applicants must be U.S. persons within the meaning of ITAR. ITAR defines a U.S. person as a U.S. Citizen, U.S. Permanent Resident (i.e. 'Green Card Holder'), Political Asylee, or Refugee.

Annual salary
N/A

Job location

Job location
North America, United States, Ohio

City (-ies)
Twinsburg

Applicant criteria

Minimum education level achieved
College/ Vocational/Trade School

Minimum experience level required
More than 5 years