Quality Engineer

Coaching, support, and guidance of area of assignment within Safran Helicopter Engines USA, ensuring compliance and conformity to the standards defined by the Quality Division.

• Apply and accompany the quality policy defined by the Safran Group Quality Division and SafranHE USA.

• Convey requirements regarding the quality of products and services delivered by the site to its customers (internal/external) and the treatment of the non-quality in accordance with SAFRAN standards.

• Ensure compliance with the standards defined by the Quality Division.

• Contribute to transverse and corporate/central initiatives concerning quality and other missions.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ensure full understanding of the quality policy, promote and support the deployment.

• Reviews technical problems and procedures of departments and recommend solutions to problems or changes in procedures. Conference with members of engineering and operations regarding quality assurance of products.

• Ensure that the quality of internal products delivered by the assigned area is in conformity with the applicable requirements. To do so, ensure that instructions and provisions concerning quality are correctly applied. Ensure the effectiveness and efficiency of the corrective actions planned in this context.
  Indicators:
  1.Planned/Actual basics audits completed
  2.Customer complaint rate
  3.Balanced Score Cards

• Ensure full understanding of the quality management method of QRQC, quality procedures, and ensure comprehension and application:

• Of quality, SMS and risk policy

• Quality management methods

• Approach, methodology and quality/SMS/risk tools in the site (QRQC, root cause analysis, risk analysis, FMEA.)

• Define and monitor compliance including approvals/qualifications by way of auditing workstation/product, process/system).

• Supports and hosts external auditors of Monitor the assigned areas performance and take appropriate actions to ensure the quality of the delivered product.

• Stop activities in case of major discrepancy in relation with the operation managers (discrepancy that does not allow to deliver conform product or service) and support the definition of corrective action plan to restart the activities in a timely manner.

• Based on the management and reporting standards defined by SafranHE USA and Safran Corporate requirements, instigate, monitor the assigned area Quality Balance Score Cards to evaluate the results and appraise the overall quality performance of the assigned area.
  Warn the personnel/Supervisors/Manager concerned of any discrepancies identified and ensure an action plan is defined by the assigned area team and validated by the area Manager.
  Ensure Measurement of effectiveness and efficiency of any corrective actions planned.

• Participate in multi-area synergies and transverse initiatives regarding quality.