Production Line Manager (Safran Aerosystems)

Missions & Objectives

Reporting directly to the Head of Production, you will be responsible for all activities of the Oxygen Repair Line. In this scope, you will manage a repair production team with the support of one or more Lead Repair Technician(s). You will also manage the Certification / Return to service activity.

Your objectives and Missions

• Manage your team with the aim of meeting objectives for safety, quality, costs and delivery, in line with customer requirements and Safran Aerosystems strategy.
• Improve performance within your expanded scope of responsibility
• Ensure that multidisciplinary teams capitalize on experience and move up the skills chain.
• Develop versatility, autonomy, cross-functional applicability and innovation, in line with the Safran Together model
• Providing a vision and uniting the teams around the entity’s challenges.
• Ensuring that competencies and resources are maintained at the highest level within the expanded scope.
• Ensuring the accessibility and quality of data in the sector.
• Guaranteeing the use of and compliance with referential.
• Ensuring compliance of all production, processes and the correct application of all directives (Part 145 regulations, HSE, etc.)
• Keeping up to date and documentation and procedures relative to your scope
• Ensuring the required transformations and change management in line with Customer Support Services global requirements

Main Activities

Manage the employees within the Production Line team

• Managing a team of Repair Technicians, Leads & dedicated certifying staff when applicable
• Guaranteeing a safe environment of work and lead any necessary actions to ensure safety of your team
• Organising your teams in a way that promotes multidisciplinary contributions, autonomy, accountability, and cross-functionality with the aim of being agile and adaptable to operational contingencies and (internal and external) customer’s needs.
• Managing workload-capacity balance in coordination with the production manager
• Expressing resource and competency needs for the optimal operation of the department
• Allocating workload based on need & managing priorities within the department.
• Managing HR Processes: hiring/on boarding/training, annual performance review of the team
• Managing the competency development of each team member
• Identifying training needs, defining training initiatives to ensure the development of the team, and contributing to employee career management
• Maintaining a good social climate within and with your team
• Promoting a team operation in accordance with the values of the Safran Together Model
• Promoting innovation and support innovative initiative

Organize the activity

• Maintaining a working environment that complies with HSE requirements and ensuring the safety of the teams working under your responsibility
• Implementing the guidelines and objectives of the Head of Production for your scope of responsibility into SQCDP (Safety – Quality – Cost – Delivery – People) operational objectives in line with other Production Line Managers.
• Ensuring that products are repaired in terms of quality and quantity to meet customer order requirements within the set deadlines and costs
• Managing and planning the resources of the repair production lines around a workload / capacity tool in terms of repair production resources and staff (quantities and competencies). Anticipating the needs related to the ramp-up of the repair production tool.
• Managing the skills and training of the teams to guarantee the quality of operations
• Ensuring Team members training on Time clocking rules, and clocking accuracy
• Supporting internal and Customers training in line with the training department within CSS

Manage the performance

• Monitoring the performance indicators of the repair production lines in relation to targets, leading the associated reporting and develop any action and mitigation plans to support the performance
• Proposing and implementing a plan for the continuous improvement of repair production lines: on production, means and processes to contribute to the sustainable improvement of performance (e.g. One SAFRAN). Managing your operational cost including but not restricted to investments, man-hours.
• Embarking the Lead Technicians in managing performance and the teams coordination
• Guaranteeing the compliance of routines as defined in the strategic operation plan
• Ensuring the operational cohesion of the lines with the site’s other departments (HSE, Sales Administration, Quality, Supply Chain, etc.) and promoting cross-functionality
• Optimising set-ups within the lines in keeping with the site’s industrial strategy
• Any other tasks from time to time.

Education & Experience

• Engineering in diploma or degree or equivalent postgraduate qualification.
• 5 years’ relevant working experience in the aerospace or airline industry will be an advantage.