Production Line Manager

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.