Job description
The Director, Certification and Airworthiness is responsible for standardization and deployment of processes and tools that drive compliance for certification, qualification, and airworthiness of products across the company; and strategy development to ensure continued improvements in certification and airworthiness compliance processes and capabilities across the company. This position will report to the Vice President, Core Engineering for Cabin.
Summary of Duties:
- Execute certification and airworthiness standardization improvement initiatives within Cabin divisions and business units.
- Harmonization and define certification and airworthiness engineering best practices, global standards, and processes within Cabin divisions and business units.
- Work with the sales and marketing team on new bids that are challenging from a Certification perspective to ensure risks are identified and standardized procedures are considered.
- Work with new product development teams to ensure standardized certification and airworthiness processes are considered and deployed in the development process.
- Support Cabin Technical Audits.
- Coordinate issues, challenges, and improvements for certification and airworthiness with customers, regulatory agencies, and program teams.
- Support Group and Cabin Expert program and activities.
- Participate on regulatory and industry working groups, process development teams, and committees related to certification and airworthiness.
- Perform Safran Cabin Inc. Organization Designation Authorization (FAA ODA) Lead Administrator duties.
- Represent Cabin certification and airworthiness throughout Safran.
- Prepare and ensure certification and airworthiness training is implemented in Cabin.
- Development and implementation of strategic certification and airworthiness initiatives.
- Actively deploy One Safran Develop, PROMPT, and industrialization within Cabin.
- Implement standard tools, processes and procedures for the Cabin Engineering function.
- Leverage technical collaboration, expertise, and lessons learned related to certification and airworthiness across Cabin.
- Drive efficiency and predictable execution across all program and project development activities in Cabin.
- Direct the Cabin Engineering Certification Group activities for programs and projects.
- Customarily and regularly directs the work of two or more employees.
- Ad hoc reports on design risks depending on the criticality of issues, and support to mitigation action plan development (general orientations or detailed planning depending on the situation).
Job requirements
- 10 years of experience inclusive of all characteristics of certification and airworthiness requirements, functions, processes and procedures;
- strong knowledge of certification and airworthiness regulations, processes, and methods worldwide;
- 5 years formal leadership experience with managing certification and airworthiness personnel and activities;
- direct experience working with FAA, EASA, and other regulatory agencies on certification and airworthiness projects;
- strong verbal, technical writing, and written communication skills for internal company, customer, and authority interactions;
- hard-working, dependable, organized, and self-disciplined.
ID: DLAV – 80417
Complementary description
Leadership Competencies:
- Personal Responsibility
- Direction Setting
- Strategic Leader
- Organizational Management
- Inspirational Leadership
- Cost Consciousness
- Judgment
- Negotiation Skills
- Planning & Organization
- Recruitment & Staffing
Specificity of the job
Travel maybe required
Company information
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 92,000 employees and sales of 21 billion euros in 2018. Working alone or in partnership, Safran holds world or European leadership positions in its core markets. Safran undertakes Research & Development programs to meet fast-changing market requirements, with total R&D expenditures of around 1.5 billion euros in 2018.
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 Cabin provides all elements of a seamlessly integrated Cabin Interior. From the overhead bins, lavatories and galleys to crew rests and cargo containers, either as independent world class products or as a fully integrated cabin. The company is headquartered in Huntington Beach in Southern California, USA and operates 30 sites in 11 countries. The over 13.000 employees across the globe serve virtually all the airlines, aircraft leasing companies and airframe manufacturers worldwide.
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