DMU Engineer

Job Description

Safran Seats is a leading designer and manufacturer of premium First and Business Class seating and technology. We pride ourselves on innovation, customization, quality, and industrial design. As a DMU Engineer, you will be part of our team that interfaces with both the world's biggest airlines and airframers, with the largest seats portfolio of all seats suppliers.

Key Responsibilities

• Create and maintain project LOPA structure, update suite, shell, and furniture levels with the latest design data from the design office.
• Create and maintain Space Allocation Models (maturity models) as per DMU methodology.
• Create Test BOMs for certification teams as required for project milestones.
• Ensure system requirements are adhered to and validated in the maturity models.
• Create Definition Control Models to define interfaces of mechanical and electrical design with composite design.
• Coordinate and communicate effectively with all teams involved in the project to ensure consistency of the design content among different products: Master Geometry, LOPA, and kinematics.
• Maintain clean and clash-free design data throughout the project life.
• Analyze product structures to ensure all links are correct.
• Prepare and check data submissions to Airbus, Boeing, and other third-party integrators.
• Prepare, understand, and generate DMU problem reports to ensure team philosophies are maintained. Track and measure problems.
• Ensure the DMU tracker is fully updated with the latest design data maturity.
• Check, report, and validate 3D model quality, including CATDUA, Q-checker, naming, and numbering.
• Prepare data to facilitate DMU reviews.
• Contribute to the development of Best Practice guidelines and support ongoing continuous improvement initiatives to increase team efficiency through methods, process, and other lean improvements.
• Ensure compliance with BMS documents, ECRs, Permits, Concessions, etc.

Complementary Description

Safran Seats' in-house design studio co-creates innovative experiences in the sky with our airline customers and partners. Our dedicated engineering, production, and in-service support facilities are integral to delivering a high-end quality product that we keep flying throughout the life of the program. We are fully supported by a wide team of support functions, from HR to Finance, to Business Development and Planning, and Logistics.

Our Focus

• Our people: We believe in and foster the conditions for diversity and inclusion to thrive. We develop our colleagues' skills and build opportunities so you can shape our future. We create a trustworthy workplace to support you as you dare to act and innovate. We encourage collaboration and mutual support between you and your colleagues.
• Sustainability: Our people are at the heart of our success, as we work together to achieve our mission: contributing to a safer and more sustainable aviation. We are tackling the biggest challenges in aerospace, with a commitment to work towards decarbonizing the industry by 2050.
• Global Mobility: As part of the Safran Group, across our businesses, we are market leaders in aerospace, defense, and space; there is always potential for future mobility in the UK and internationally.

Job Requirements

Qualified to a minimum of a degree level. Alternatively, a HNC/HND or an equivalent qualification with experience in providing services and support within an engineering function. Essential:

• A proficient user of Catia V5/Smarteam.
• Have worked within the Aerospace/Automotive domains.
• A working knowledge of the engineering release and approval processes.

Desirable:

• Experience of working in mechanical design teams.
• Experience of working with Boeing and Airbus specifications.

No candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to hear from you.

Our Benefits

• 25 days holiday + UK Bank Holidays.
• Benefits Programme, with a number of schemes such as cycle to work, technology savings, retail discounts.
• Career Progressions opportunities such as company sponsorship and further training courses.
• Family-friendly policies including maternity, paternity, adoptive parents, shared parental leave, parental leave, and flexible working.
• Equality & Diversity initiatives with internal groups for workplace engagement and involvement.
• STEM engagement with schools, colleges, and universities and Charitable activities for all.