Quality Technician

Safran; Pontypool; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

Safran Seats GB is committed to assuring the quality of products throughout the lifecycle, supporting quality assurance across the complete manufacturing process and ensuring processes and procedures meet safety and quality standards.

The role includes developing quality improvement plans, training operators, and ensuring products and services delivered to customers have undergone the proper manufacturing/repair/validation steps.

Qualifications

• Apprenticeship level or equivalent in an engineering discipline.
• Solid engineering/quality background with manufacturing/engineering QA experience.
• AS9100 Internal Auditor training (desirable).
• Experience in the Aerospace industry (desirable).
• TPBN1_UKTJ competency.

Responsibilities

• Assure quality across the product lifecycle and manufacturing processes.
• Develop and implement quality improvement plans using data and feedback.
• Train operators in quality procedures and sign off on EASA parts release (as applicable).
• Support audits, QRQC, and validation processes.

Skills

Engineering background

Quality inspection

Auditing experience

Aerospace exposure

TPBN1_UKTJ

Education

Apprenticeship level or equivalent in an Engineering discipline

AS9100 Internal Auditor

Job description

The purpose of this role is to assure the quality of products, throughout the product lifecycle with Safran Seats GB. The post holder will support the product lifecycle quality assurance, through the complete manufacturing process, and take responsibility for ensuring that processes and procedures are in place and adhered to in relation to product quality.

To help analyis all data to develop quality improvement plans (effectiveness and efficiency).

• To contribute to and support the qualification and quality training of operators.
• To help ensure that products and services delivered to customers have gone through the appropriate manufacturing/repair/validation process by:
  • Defining, updating and ensuring compliance with the key points for achieving quality.
  • Supporting the due processing of customer dissatisfaction, non-compliance (production) and/or deviations from maintenance data (MRO).
  • Stop any action that could have an unacceptable impact on the quality of a product and propose the necessary conditions for restart.
• Once trained, act as signatory for EASA form one for parts and product for release and as a Certificate of Conformity signatory

General

• To protect customers from non-quality, by ensuring that products and practices comply with regulations, customer requirements and Safran standards and promoting a culture of prevention and anticipation
• To drive continuous improvement, by capitalizing on factual data and feedback and providing the necessary support for all company functions
• To undertake other reasonable duties, in line with business needs and objectives, which are consistent and commensurate with the overall purpose of the position.
• To work with the operational manager and operational team as well as the other quality teams, to help define quality objectives in line with company objectives.
• Responsible for measuring the quality of products and services delivered, with respect to the specified objectives.
• To help ensure that appropriate action plans are implemented and carried out, and measured for their effectiveness.
• To support and conduct audits (where requested) and OJT in accordance with regulations, company procedures and customer requirements.
• To support the implementation of the industrial validation process and help maintain the validation process.
• To contribute to QRQC as methods authority.

• Apprenticeship level or equivalent in an Engineering discipline (Essential)
• Sound engineering / quality background, with experience of Quality inspection within a manufacturing / engineering industry (Essential)
• Internal Auditor AS9100 trained (Desirable)
• Experience within the Aerospace industry (Desirable)
• TPBN1_UKTJ

Safran is an international high-technology group operating in the fields of aerospace (propulsion, equipment and interiors), space and defense. Its mission is to contribute sustainably to a safer world, where air transport becomes ever more environmentally friendly, comfortable and accessible. Present on every continent, the Group employs 110,000 people and generated €31.3 billion in revenue in 2025. Safran holds, either independently or through partnerships, leading global or European positions in its markets.

Safran was ranked second in the Aerospace & Defense sector in TIME magazine's ''World's Best Companies 2025'' ranking.

With more than one million seats installed across the fleets of the world's leading airlines, Safran Seats is one of the global leaders in passenger, crew, aircraft and helicopter seating, delivering innovative, high value-added solutions.