Mechanical Technician

Job description

Are you interested in working at the business end of Aerospace, where airline brand meets innovative passenger experience? Then your next opportunity could be with Safran Seats, an industry award winning, premium designer and manufacturer of First and Business Class seating and technology. Our passenger experience prides itself on innovation, customization, quality and industrial design.
At Safran Seats, we are unique within aerospace, as we interface with both the world's biggest airlines and airframers alike, with the largest seats portfolio of all seats suppliers. One day you could be liaising with one of the world's largest airframers, and the next, some of the biggest airline brands around the world!
In the UK, Safran Seats specialises solely in the First Class and Business Class seating markets for wide body aircraft, with industrial and engineering teams in Cwmbran and Newport, Wales and Brackley, England.
The purpose of this role is to manage a design team that will provide design solutions from initial concept through to manufacture.
Key Responsibilities will include:
 Check supplied parts and assemblies to ensure compliance to drawing, design data
and all relevant specifications
 Represent the department in product design reviews giving feedback on likely
issues and improvement opportunities
 Analyse product design using CAD models and log issues per company process
(5C)
 Identify assembly and manufacturing process improvement opportunities
throughout the product development phase
 Build Development articles against CAD model screen grabs/instructions
 Analyse development article builds and log issues
 Define and validate solutions and countermeasures for 5C issues raised
 Build test articles to standard production processes and record deviations 
Route harnesses to drawing
 View/interrogate product BOMs and locate parts on company's MRP system
(BaaN)
 Rework parts to new design solutions for trial and evaluation
 Rework “out of revision” parts to the latest design standard and complete minor
rework order form
 Maintain the engineering quality and integrity of the work produced within their work
package
 Work with other departments to ensure that the design solution meets the
appropriate airworthiness requirements
 Record timings for assembly and disassembly for calculation of cycle times
 Identify the need for jigs and fixtures to ensure correct assembly
 Generate, validate and revise Process Work Instructions
 Fault find and rectify issues
 Train production operators in the assembly process of new products
 Support product events with customers - PDR/CDR/FAI/FSR
 Support off-site activities e.g. installation of products into aircraft 
Support the rework of in-service products against warranty claims and service
bulletins
 Communicate effectively and professionally with other departments, customers and
suppliers
 Undertake and maintain 5S activities

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Job requirements

Minimum of BTEC L3 (mechanical engineering) OR suitable
depth of relevant experience/time served apprentice
Aerospace/automotive manufacturing experience at defined
competent level
Experience of working within company and regulatory
processes, standards and specifications
Knowledge of machining operations
Knowledge and use of mechanical fixings - screws, rivets, nails
etc
Knowledge of different materials - sheet metal, steel, wood,
composite etc
Good knowledge of design for assembly/manufacture principles

Specificity of the job

Willing to travel to support company objectives.