#ET22A Process Improver (f/h)

AIRBUS HELICOPTERS SAS; Marseille; On-site; EUR 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company restaurant

Travel allowances

Shuttle service

Career development

Job summary

Airbus Helicopters SAS in Marignane near Marseille is seeking a Process Improver to join the Process Management Team. You will drive the continuous optimization of testing frameworks and integration methods, ensuring efficient helicopter development, strong service support, and strict regulatory compliance.

This role focuses on efficiency, risk management, scalability, knowledge sharing, and customer satisfaction, contributing to a high-tech, inclusive and environmentally friendly work

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in process management within industrial/aeronautical environments.
• Strong knowledge of PART-21 and EN 9100 compliance.
• Professional fluency in English (written and spoken).
• Excellent communication, analytical mindset, and change leadership.

Responsibilities

• Support the Process Owner in governance, define 3–5 year ambitions, and monitor roadmaps.
• Design and maintain process content and documentation architecture aligned to standards.
• Prepare and execute process routines; monitor KPIs and drive corrective actions.
• Coordinate internal and external audits and track CARs and OFIs to closure.
• Lead or contribute to process improvement initiatives across domains.

Skills

Process management

Quality governance

Continuous improvement

PART-21 EN 9100

KPI tracking

Audit management

Risk assessment

Process adherence

English language

Job description

Job Description:

Take off with Airbus Helicopters!

Airbus Helicopters is looking for a Process Improver (m/f) to join the Process Management Team based in Marignane, France.

Join us to shape the future of aeronautics and help protect lives during missions accomplished thanks to our helicopters.

The Marignane site, the 3rd largest industrial site in France, near Marseille and Aix-en-Provence, is undergoing a deep transformation to offer a high-tech, inclusive, and environmentally friendly working environment.

You will live a unique professional experience, at the heart of the manufacturing of our helicopters.

To learn more about our site and our activities: Airbus Helicopters - Marignane

Your future missions:

By joining our team, you will drive the continuous optimization of our testing frameworks and integration methods, ensuring that our helicopter development is highly efficient, supported by top-tier services, and remains in strict compliance with all internal processes and regulatory standards.

Your main focus will be efficiency and consistency, risk management, scalability, continuous improvement, customer satisfaction, and knowledge management.

Your main missions will be:

• Process Management & Governance: Support the Process Owner in process governance routines, define and cascade 3 to 5-year process ambitions and yearly objectives, and monitor improvement roadmaps to reach performance target performance.
• Documentation Architecture & Compliance: Design, simplify, and maintain process content and documentation architecture in alignment with business needs and regulatory standards (PART-21, EN 9100, etc.). Coordinate documentation publication and lead obsolescence campaigns.
• Routines & Performance Monitoring: Prepare and execute process management routines (Process Board, Process reviews, Customer Feedback Loops), monitor activity performance via monthly KPIs, and drive process adherence assessments and corrective action plans.
• Risk Management & Audits: Manage Risks & Opportunities, prepare and coordinate internal/external audits, and ensure the resolution and follow-up of Corrective Action Requests (CARs), Findings, and Opportunities for Improvement (OFIs) until full closure.
• Projects & Best Practices: Manage or contribute to process improvement initiatives across business domains, support process deployment in relevant subsidiaries, and share best practices with other Process Improvers.

Your profile:

• Experience: Demonstrated experience in process management, quality governance, or continuous improvement within an industrial or aeronautical environment.
• Technical Expertise: Strong knowledge of regulatory standards (PART-21, EN 9100) and process management methodologies (KPI tracking, audit management, risk assessment, process adherence).
• Language: Professional fluency in English (written and spoken).
• Soft Skills: Strong communication skills, analytical mindset, customer orientation, and ability to lead change and influence stakeholders.

3 Reasons to join us:

• Our Values : Six essential values form the core of our company. Defined for employees by employees, our Airbus values shape the DNA of our business, reflecting the unique mix of qualities found in each member of our global family.
• Inclusion and diversity : We foster an inclusive and rewarding work environment, where everyone's diversity is valued and respected. An inclusive and diverse workforce is the engine of innovation at Airbus. It makes us unique and contributes to better problem-solving.
• Compensation and benefits : At Airbus, we build the future together and your success is our priority. Expect a global, competitive, and transparent compensation package (including salaries, bonuses, profit-sharing, participation, and preferred share ownership plan), designed to reward the impact and performance you bring, both individually and collectively. We invest in your complete well-being: professional development (training, mentoring, international mobility), health coverage, retirement, and a commitment to a supported work-life balance (parental support, flexibility).
• A dynamic CSE (Social and Economic Committee) offering many advantages (company restaurant, children's leisure center, associations and sports complex, travel allowances, etc.).
• Transport facilities: Take advantage of our company shuttles or the reimbursement of your annual transport pass.

Our recruitment process:

• Analysis of your application by the recruitment department.
• Our positions require a security clearance, complete the questionnaire that will be sent to you.
• Conduct recruitment interviews: HR interview and technical interview with your future manager.
• Receive the job offer!

Company:

Airbus Helicopters SAS

Employment Type: Permanent

Classe Emploi (France): Classe F12

Experience Level: Entry Level

Job Family: Improvement & Performance Management

Airbus is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.

Airbus is, and always has been, committed to equal opportunities for all. As such, we will never ask for any type of monetary exchange in the frame of a recruitment process. Any impersonation of Airbus to do so should be reported to [e-mail] .

At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.