Engineering Supervisor

Safran Group•Gainesville, TX

69d

About The Position

As a member of the Safran Seats business, you play a major role in teamwork that provides over one million seats to major airlines worldwide. Our commitment to superior quality, comfort and innovation ensure that you can take pride in doing meaningful work that supports the needs of passengers and crews alike. No matter your role, you connect and collaborate with your fellow team members to bring state-of-the-art, high value-added solutions to market. Because we are one of the few original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to offer an all-inclusive range of passenger seats for commercial aircraft, you'll do impressive work that supports passengers in a variety of seating options, from economy to first class. Objective: Under minimal supervision, the Engineering Supervisor is responsible for overall engineering project performance coordination with Engineering Manager, to execute certification/Simulation, tooling, proto, and the design activities to ensure program success. Supervises completion of engineering projects of assigned department and team within the definitions of the airframe manufacturer and airline specifications, FAA regulations, SSUSA requirements and within engineering budget and schedules.

Responsibilities

Serves as a working team member on the projects in addition to supervisory duties.
Supervises personnel responsible for the completion and release of engineering documents, dynamic/static analysis tasks parts list and engineering drawings.
Coordinates the technical requirements of a project with the IPT and other teams as required.
Provides leadership to the engineering teams for the assigned projects
Responsible for total quality and on time output of the project team and designs/simulations.
Responsible for the project teams outputs to internal and external deliverables: NRE budget & expenditures, schedule, scope of work, product definition, recurring costs and weight targets
Responsible for controlling the project scope and avoiding scope creep.
Leads the project team in problem resolution and risk management.
Responsible for elevating risk thru Engineering Management.
Attends necessary meetings, e.g., Detail/PBS/Installation Design Reviews, Preliminary Design Reviews (PDR), Critical Design Reviews (CDR) and first article inspections (FAI). Coordinates and supervises completion of the required resolutions that result from these meetings.
Performs the following supervisory functions with oversight from the manager: i) Performance Reviews ii) Feedback, coaching, development iii) PTO approval iv) Ensures harmonious working environment. Exhibits Safran Leadership model behaviors and ensures team is exhibiting these behaviors as well.
Performs other duties as assigned.