Continuous Improvement Project Engineer

Job description

Entity

Safran is an international high-technology group, operating in the aircraft propulsion and equipment, space and defense markets. Safran has a global presence, with more than 58,000 employees and sales of 16.5 billion euros in 2017. Working alone or in partnership, Safran holds world or European leadership positions in its core markets. Safran is listed on the Euronext Paris stock exchange, and is part of the CAC 40 and Euro Stoxx 50 indices.
In February 2018, Safran took control of Zodiac Aerospace, significantly expanding its aircraft equipment activities. Zodiac Aerospace has 32,500 employees and generated sales of 5.1 billion euros for its fiscal year ended August 31, 2017.

Safran is ranked among the Top 100 Global Innovators by Thomson Reuters and is featured on the "Happy at work" rankings. The Group places fourth on the Universum ranking for the favorite companies of newly-qualified engineers in France.

Safran Landing Systems is the world leader in aircraft landing and braking systems. 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.  

Job details

Main domain/Job field

Support functions - Improvement Initiatives

Job title

Continuous Improvement Project Engineer

Employment type

Permanent

Professional category

Administrative staff

Part time / Full time

Full-time

Job description

The purpose of the role is to manage and facilitate continuous improvement projects and initiatives across the organisation. Working in a small team you will be responsible for identifying and implementing your improvements with the overall aim of improving processing times and quality.

The successful candidate will work with other CI teams across the company to improve production and support processes in line with business needs and growth.

Additional description

Desired profile

- Active involvement in project identification, scoping, prioritisation, progress monitoring, tracking of results and reporting findings across the organisation.
- Project implementation and management
- Use agreed metrics to validate the requirement for projects, and/or justify allocation of resources
- Ensure all completed CI projects are embedded and maintained
- Develop and maintain strong working relationships with cross functional teams working collaboratively to drive improvement programmes
- Actively engage with peers internally and across the group to ensure best practice implementation
- Completion of auditing, 5S, 8D and notice board information
- Root cause analysis

Travel specifictity

Maybe be required for business needs

Candidate skills & requirements

- Systematic problems solver with the ability to implement solutions, undertake root cause analysis and instigate/manage change
- Able to manage your own project and workloads
- Understanding of the different areas of tooling and manufacturing
- Demonstrate competence of project delivery through application of CI practices
- Ability to manage and organise multiple projects at any one time
- Excellent communication skills to present effective and persuasive arguments/presentations on complex topics
- Positive and proactive approach to challenges and change management
- A passion for continuous improvement with strong influencing skills
- The ability to work independently
- Perseverance
- Desirable - Green belt qualified
- Desirable - Aspiring to black belt or proven experience of project implementation