Overview

Supply Chain and Quality Manager role at Airbus. Location: Filton. 60% of your working week must be office based. Type: Full time. Security clearance: You will be subject to a BPSS check (including a criminal record check). Travel: Some travel within the UK and internationally.

What’s In It For You

• Financial Reward: Competitive salary, annual profit share, contributory pension, share options, car leasing scheme, free onsite parking, season ticket loan, tax-free technology scheme, shopping discounts and more
• Work / Life Balance: 35 hour week, flexible working around core hours and Friday afternoons off, hybrid working
• Personal Development: Personalised development plan, Airbus Leadership University and unlimited access to 10,000+ E-learning courses, internal mobility including international opportunities
• Health & Wellbeing: Bupa health insurance (including assisted fertility treatments and gender dysphoria & reassignment support), wellbeing benefits (including 24/7 online GP and mental health support), discounted family health / dental insurance / eye tests, cycle-to-work scheme, on-site canteen and coffee shop, lunchtime yoga / meditation
• Family and Caregiving: Life assurance, enhanced pay for maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave and caregiving and purpose-built maternity rooms on site
• Inclusive Environment: Wellbeing room, Multi-faith room, Employee Representative Groups (Gender, LGBTQ+, International, Generational, Disability, Social & Cultural Diversity, Neurodiversity)

Role Purpose and Context

As a Supply Chain and Quality Manager you will form close working relationships with Airbus Engineering, Programme Management, Quality, FAL customers and sub-assembly fit-sites, as well as with our suppliers. Airbus Procurement Operations is a dynamic area focused on ensuring production and delivery of aircraft is maintained on time and to high quality. Our department (PIEL) manages approximately 50 suppliers worldwide, delivering landing gear, fuel & inerting systems, and some fuel equipment on the A400M. You will be accountable for the industrial maturity of a group of fuel system suppliers, enabling leadership, stakeholder management and product knowledge growth.

If you are willing to learn in a fast-paced and challenging environment, travel worldwide to Airbus and supplier facilities, and possess a strong problem-solving mentality, this is an opportunity to consider.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as focal point towards suppliers for operational activities and contract management, and as ambassador of the supplier toward internal functions.
• Assess suppliers during the tendering phase and contribute to the selection decision.
• Manage supply chain and quality aspects of the contract, accountable for On Time, On Quality (and on Cost when applicable) performance.
• Manage supplier quality approval/authorization, ensure supplier certifications are compliant in coordination with relevant stakeholders.

Qualifications and Skills

• English language at negotiation level; other languages are advantageous
• Problem solving skills
• Project and stakeholder management
• Experience in engineering, procurement operations, manufacturing, production and quality backgrounds
• Degree level qualification is desirable, but not essential

Additional Information

Not a 100% match? Airbus supports personal growth with customised development solutions. Airbus is a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to any applicant who self-identifies as having a disability or long-term condition and meets the minimum criteria of the role.

Please let us know if you need adjustments for the selection process. The information disclosed will be treated confidentially. Airbus is committed to equal opportunities and an inclusive working environment.

Company: Airbus Operations Limited

Employment Type: Permanent

Experience Level: Professional

Job Function: Quality Assurance; Industries: Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing