At Safran, excellence is a journey – and we'd love you to be a part of it. As a trusted global leader in aerospace, defence, and space, we are proud to be a company where diversity, innovation, and opportunity come together to shape a sustainable future where we can all succeed together through a shared vision
We are looking for talented individuals to join our Manufacturing engineering team as a Manufacturing Engineer (Assemblies) at our Cwmbran site.
In the UK, 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.
Looking after the people who make Safran great is our priority. We offer a range of flexible benefits designed to support you—both in and out of work, including:
33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
- Industry leading pension scheme with salary sacrifice employer contributions up to 10%.
- Private medical cover (to include Digital GP and rapid access Physio with no excess) with ability to upgrade level of benefit and cover family members.
- Access to salary sacrifice benefits scheme including cycle to work
- 4 x Life Assurance
- Interactive benefits platform including wide range of discretionary benefits including technology, retail benefits, income protection.
- Enhanced family friendly policies and benefits (enhanced maternity and paternity leave) and employee assistanc
Your role :
The purpose of this role is to provide engineering support to production and assembly activities by improving manufacturing processes and supporting new product introduction. You will work closely with design, operations and quality teams to ensure products are manufactured efficiently, to cost and to a high-quality standard.
Key Responsibilities will include:
- Provide engineering support to production and assembly lines
- Design new systems, equipment and processes for the introduction of new products or the improvement of existing ones
- Facilitate problem solving activities
I-dentify and eliminate non-value adding activities
- Maintain Bills of Materials within the ERP system
- Review engineering drawings and process ECRs
- Manage operations configuration tracking
- Support production readiness reviews
- Assist with ergonomic workshops
- Raise and maintain necessary documentation to incorporate design changes
- Support operations departments with operator training and development
- Implement and maintain 5S and safety standards
- Keep up to date with current and developing trends in the manufacturing industry
- Undertake other reasonable duties in line with business needs and objectives
