Conformity Inspector

Who We Are:
Northwest Aerospace Technologies, a proud member of the Safran Cabin family, designs, engineers, manufactures and installs the best aircraft interiors in the world, focusing on luxury interiors.

Why Should You Join Us?:
Safran Cabin headquarters are in Huntington Beach, California, with a global presence of over 10,000 employees at 39 sites. Site locations are in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Canada, Germany, France, Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Tunisia and Thailand. Safran Cabin serves over 400 airlines and leasing companies globally and delivers to all airframe OEM manufacturers with a heritage spanning over 80 years in the industry.

• Your Career: Safran is committed to providing internal mobility to our employees. We operate globally so the sky is the limit of where your Safran journey can take you.
• Your Development: Safran employees have free access to Safran University courses and external tuition reimbursement for approved programs or certifications.
• Your Benefits: Our suite of comprehensive benefits includes health care (medical, dental and vision), life insurance, 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid time off, Safran Perks with BenefitHub – Employee Discounts & Rewards Marketplace for consumer products/services and more!

Annual Salary: USD $41,600 - $90,310

Summary:
Contributes to the success of the Operations and Supply Chain Departments by facilitating the conformity and logistics efforts across the company to ensure projects and production are supported in the most effective manner.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintains the conformity schedule for parts, monuments, wiring and installations which integrates part availability, cert status and the program need dates.

• Facilitates organizational focus for engineering, certification and supply chain departments to effectively priorities work to support operational activity.

• Identifies and recommends corrective actions to Supply Chain relating to part availability.

• Acts as principal liaison between the modification site and production facilities and Supply Chain on part/kit availability providing a weekly 60 day outlook.

• Participates in the daily program operations conference call.

• Supports logistics activity across the company providing guidance on shipping and international shipping couriers and regulations.

• Maintains program SPI and CPI analysis.

• Analyzes data to develops and maintain appropriate group metrics.

• Identifies and recommends to management areas of waste that should be addressed through improvement activities.

• Maintains regular attendance including being at work, being on time to work and working full shifts.

• Other duties as assigned.

Summary of Education, Experience & Certification:
Bachelor’s degree, two years experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience. Aerospace background and aircraft interior industry experience a plus.

Employees working on programs subject to International Traffic in Arms Regulations must qualify as a US Person which is defined as a US Citizen, a Permanent Resident who does not work for a foreign company/foreign government/foreign governmental agency or organization, or a political asylee for legal compliance purposes.

Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Must possess broad technical knowledge and familiarity of aircraft, maintenance, interior completions, and FAA/EASA certification.

• Ability to work well independently and cross-functionally as part of an established and growing team.

• Strong personnel management, communication, time-management, and problem-solving skills.

• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.

• Ability to influence, persuade and negotiate.

• Proven ability to read and interpret engineering drawings and have knowledge of aircraft parts, assembly and installation.

• Strong problem solving skills.

• Ability to deal with a variety of abstract and concrete variables.

• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.

• Demonstrated experience with Microsoft Office applications and CRM software.

Competencies:
To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:

Greenpoint Core Competencies

• - Adaptability: - Adapts to changes in the work environment, manages competing demands, and accepts constructive criticism/feedback and changes approach or method to best fit the situation.
• - Communications: - Expresses ideas and thoughts effectively in verbal and written form, exhibits good listening and comprehension, keeps others informed and uses appropriate communication methods.
• - Dependability: - Responds to requests for service and assistance, follows instruction and responds to management direction, takes responsibility for own actions and doing the best job possible, keeps commitments, and maintains reliable attendance.
• - Initiative: - Sets and achieves challenging goals, demonstrates persistence and overcomes obstacles, measures self against standard of excellence, recognizes and acts on opportunities, and takes calculated risks to accomplish goals.
• - Teamwork: - Balances team and individual responsibilities, exhibits objectivity and openness to others' views, gives and welcomes feedback, contributes to building a positive team spirit, and puts success of team above own interests.
• - Work Quality: - Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness, displays commitment to excellence, looks for ways to improve and promote quality, applies feedback to improve performance, and monitors own work to ensure quality.

Job Core Competencies

• Cooperation: – Establishes and maintains effective relations, exhibits tact and consideration, displays positive outlook and pleasant manner, offers assistance and support to co-workers, works cooperatively in group situations and works actively to resolve conflicts.

• Impact & Influence: – You pursue and win support for ideas, you display ability to influence key decision-makers, you achieve win-win outcomes, you use authority appropriately to accomplish goals, and you address divergent opinions.

- Job Knowledge: - Competent in required job skills and knowledge, exhibits ability to learn and apply new skills, keeps abreast of current developments, requires minimal supervision, displays understanding of how job relates to others, and uses resources effectively.

- Self-Management: - Regulates impact of own emotions upon others, remains focused and energized under stress, accepts criticism and recovers quickly from setbacks, and projects realistic self-confidence in abilities.

- Written Communications: - Writes clearly and informatively, edits work for spelling and grammar, varies writing style to meet needs, and presents numerical data effectively.