Programme Cost Controller - Cwmbran, United Kingdom - Safran

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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.


Due to continued growth and product demand, we are now recruiting for a Programme Cost Controller to join our Purchasing team, based in Cwmbran.


The Programme Cost Controller will create the conditions of success for costing activities to support sales offers preparation and the programme development process with direct responsibility for all Safran Seats products cost and cost management assigned to them.

The role drives continuous cost improvement using company root cause and corrective action processes.

Responsible for delivering product cost objectives, including managing cost performance, risks/opportunities, and change control according to internal rules, processes and procedures.

Key Responsibilities & Duties include;

  • Support bids, advanced projects and developments with recurring costs estimates, including aftermarket costs
  • Define tools and referential for production costs definition within Safran Seats
  • Support and recommend initiation of design to cost & cost reduction activities / methodology, with the appropriate owners (product line manager, program manager or commodity manager). Steer such projects when agreed with relevant owner.
  • Support all change control boards with the assessment of costs impacts of considered changes
  • Structure and improve globally the costing activity tools & methods
  • Create or improve, standardize parametric recurring costs models and tools per commodity with the support from research & technology, commodity purchasing and aftermarket departments

Complementary description:

Our in-house design studio co-creates the most 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 programme.

We are fully supported by a wide team of support functions, from HR to Finance, to Business Development and Planning and Logistics, our team is built to give Safran Seats an end-to-end capability in house in the UK.


We focus on:
Our people

These are our four People Fundamentals that underpin everything we do at Safran:

  • We believe in and fostering 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 work place to support you, as you dare to act and innovate
  • We encourage collaboration and mutual support between you and your colleagues
So you'll be supported every step of the way

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 to decarbonise the industry by 2050.

Global Mobility


As part of the Safran Group, across our businesses we are market leaders in aerospace, defence and space; there is always potential for future mobility in the UK and internationally.


Job requirements:

This position requires an individual with a technical customer management or engineering background, ideally Product Management background;
In-depth knowledge of cost management and relationships between departments within a design to cost and manufacturing environment;
Proven experience in the commercial aviation industry desired, or within a comparable technical and regulated industry may be acceptable;
An undergraduate degree in Business Management, Manufacturing Management or an Engineering Degree is required. Master's degree is highly desirable.

Our employees are at the heart of our success, as we work together for our sustainable future.

There are four People Fundamentals that underpin life at Safran:


  • We believe in and promote diversity and inclusion as key values across our business
  • We develop our colleagues skills and build opportunities so you can shape our future
  • We create a trustworthy work place to support you, as you dare to act and innovate
  • We encour
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