Job description
The Director of Flammability is responsible to develop corporate standards, procedures and training for all divisions in Cabin. He/She must have good organizational, scheduling and communication skills. The Director of Flammability must be able to motivate excellence. He/She must have a thorough understanding of flammability requirements and the certification process. This position will report to the Vice President, Core Engineering for Cabin.
The Director, Flammability provides professional and technical guidance across Cabin to ensure that effective engineering standard practices, standard processes and standard procedures are developed, implemented and adhered to for flammability activities across all divisions. Provides direction to management regarding all activities and policies related to the product line’s design, engineering and certification efforts.
Summary of Duties:
- Provides training to Flammability Team.
- Develops corporate standards regarding Flammability.
- Provides group vision consistent with corporate directives.
- Provides technical certification expertise.
- Manages Flammability department material and equipment budget.
- Manages capacity and work load balancing of Flammability Team.
- Attends change control board as required.
- Interface with engineering, customers, vendors, program managers, and manufacturing.
- Ensures document quality.
- Conducts periodic meetings of the Corporate Flammability Team to discuss program status, manpower requirements, training status, lessons learned and new initiatives. Should meet a maximum of once a month and a minimum of once a quarter (the meeting minutes, including action items, will be kept and forwarded to the Vice President of Engineering).
- Customarily and regularly directs the work of two or more employees.
- Responsible for evaluating performance of Flammability Team.
- Define process for reviewing flammability requirements of each new contract to ensure certification practices are sufficient to satisfy contractual commitments.
- Perform lessons learned analysis at the conclusion of each major project, sharing both the positives and negatives with an emphasis on continuous improvement.
- Demonstrate understanding of regulatory requirements, customer specifications and Company specifications.
- Identify design deficiencies and opportunities for improvement based on analysis, test observation and test results.
- 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
Education: Bachelor’s degree in engineering discipline, Master’s degree and/or MBA preferred.
Experience: 10 years of experience developing Cabin products and systems; 5 years formal leadership experience with proven track record of effective team-building and talent development within a design and build organization
ID: DLAV – 80416
Complementary description
Leadership Competencies:
- Personal Responsibility
- Direction Setting
- Strategic Leadership
- 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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