End to End Lead Supply Chain & Quality Manager (m/f), Hamburg

Airbus is a leading aircraft manufacturer with the most modern and comprehensive family of airliners on the market, ranging in capacity from 100 to more than 500 seats. Airbus champions innovative technologies and offers some of the world’s most fuel efficient and quiet aircraft. Airbus has sold over 13.800 aircraft to more than 360 customers worldwide. Airbus has achieved more than 8,000 deliveries since the first Airbus aircraft entered into service. Headquartered in Toulouse, France.

Tasks

As Lead Supply Chain and Quality Manager your main accountabilities are:

• Supply Chain and Quality contribution to the MFT and Implementation of MFT strategy (incl. supplier development)
• Securing strategy is declined into SMART** objectives for SCQMs
• Coordinating and consolidating the activities of SCQMs under his perimeter
• Defining and implementing suppliers/products surveillance plan
• Ensuring compliance of suppliers and products to applicable requirements with all relevant contributors
• On Time and on Quality deliveries
• Raising risks, actions follow-up, reporting and escalation in case on deviation to industrial target (incl. in-service issues)
• Identifying quality activities to be managed with Supply Chain Quality Specialist

In case of multiple SCQMs allocated to the same supplier, you are:

• Accountable for transversal Supply Chain & Quality topics at supplier level
• Assessing and pronouncing supplier approvability and approval
• The role will also involve frequent travel for business and as such you must be able to travel accordingly.

Your main tasks and responsibilities will include:

Engage Suppliers:

• Contribute and Support MFT (Multi-Functional Team) and deployed related strategy
• Contribute to supplier selection and contract setup (customization of Airbus applicable requirements and procedural documents, Logistic conditions,…)
• Contribute to Change management evaluation (supplier change request and Airbus driven change)
• Contribute to deployment of SC&Q standards, methods & tools (APQP*, AirSupply, eConcessions,…)
• Contribute to supplier contract/claims management (incl. evolution of requirements, processes, tools)

Control Suppliers:

• Verify supplier compliance with Airbus and appropriate Aviation Authorities requirements
• Establish the industrial risk analysis and corresponding surveillance plan which will be monitored and adjusted constantly
• Report and escalate issues
• Identify supplier recovery, improvement and development needs
• Secure convergence to industrial Maturity target (supplier capability & capacity)
• Monitor the supplier on Time, on Quality performance and launch relevant actions (protect Airbus production units and supply chain, follow-up supplier root cause eradication, …)

The previous activities are done by using the appropriate means such as:

• supplier deliverables’ proofreading and inspections
• methods (incl. APQP*, Transfer of Work, Supplier Audits & Assessments, Quality Standards)
• reviews (incl. ASR/GRAMS/GRESS milestones, actions plan follow-up meetings, etc...)
• missions/projects (SQIP, Supplier Development Manager missions etc…)
• Manage Product Non Conformities such as NC, Concessions, Quality Survey Reports, Safety related Items (SARI), In-service issues and Events to eradicate non quality in a sustainable way with appropriate means (as listed before).
• In addition, you have to update the corresponding tools for each activity and Support internal and external audits and EASA activities.
• This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Required skills

• Solid experience ideally in or more of the following areas: Supply Chain & Quality, Manufacturing Engineering, Engineering, Customer Support

• Supply Chain fundamentals: APICS Basics or equivalent
  Product knowledge: Engineering background is an asset
  Quality Standards/Methods :

  • Knowledge of problem solving methods (8D, PPS, …) and process improvement skills (Statistical Process Control (SPC), Measurement System Analysis (MSA), …)
  • Knowledge of quality standards and regulations (QMS, Nadcap, EMS…) is an a

• Solid experience in project Management (an airbus certification would be an asset)

• Solid communication and presentation skills

• Stakeholders management (transversal activities)

• Multi-cultural environment

• Leadership skills

• Autonomous and organized

• Advanced level of English

• Another Airbus core language is an asset.