Materials Engineer (Supply Chain)
Safran Landing Systems – Gloucester (UK)
Hybrid
Safran – Here, we craft excellence together.
Are you ready to contribute to ambitious projects and create a positive impact in the aerospace industry? At Safran, you'll work with the brightest minds and best technologies, building valuable experience and joining an innovative, supportive team.
Safran Landing Systems are a global leader in aircraft landing and braking systems, from commercial and business travel to military and defence fleets. Our expertise cover the entire life cycle of our products from end-to-end; OEM Design, Engineering & Manufacturing, through to Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO).
As a partner to 30 airframers working in the fields of commercial, regional, business and military transport, the company provides support to 27,000 aircraft completing more than 54,000 landings a day.
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.
About the role:
This is role is an opportunity to join the Materials & Processes Laboratory team based in Gloucester. The team provides Materials & Process expertise on a wide variety of subjects and provides support to a broad range of internal customers. As well as supporting activities at a site level, the Gloucester Laboratory team work closely with other Materials & Processes Laboratories within all Safran Landing Systems (SLS) divisions worldwide.
This role will mainly require involvement to support the monitoring of the supply chain for landing gear parts. In addition, there will be scope to participate in hands on work such as mechanical testing campaigns and forensic investigation of landing gear parts.
Key Responsibilities
- Involvement in laboratory tasks relating to raw material suppliers, forgers and foundries.
- Review of metallic supplier performance. Review current production performance and historical data.
- Implement improvement plans within SLS supply base for steel, aluminium and titanium materials.
- Technical audits of suppliers, with the help of the SLS Quality Assurance department.
- Support the qualification of new raw material suppliers, such as steel mills.
- Undertake duties to assist the internal SLS Materials Validation Board (MVB).
- Support engineering and internal customers with materials related topics.
- Assist with laboratory testing campaigns relating to metallic materials, surface engineering/ protection systems and non-metallic materials.
- Involvement in the forensic investigation of landing gear parts.
