Quality Performance & Development Manager (d/f/m)

Quality Performance & Development Manager (d/f/m)

Are you keen to embark on a space adventure? Would you like to play a part in ensuring European space autonomy and sovereignty? ArianeGroup’s international teams design and build cutting-edge technologies for space, defence and industry: they are shaping Europe’s future in space. Whether you are a first-time job-seeker or an experienced professional, you’ll find that our 13 sites in Germany, mainland France and French Guiana offer career opportunities spanning a wide array of professions – engineering, customer service, quality control, legal matters and production, to name just a few. Here, you can discover our job.

ArianeGroup GmbH in Bremen is looking for a ‘Quality Performance & Development Manager (d/f/m)’ for the department ‘CMS & Quality Tools’ with immediate effect.

What we offer you:

• 🚀 Practical experience and involvement in an international aerospace company

• 💶 Attractive remuneration in accordance with the collective agreements of the metal and electrical industry as well as various additional payments (Christmas and holiday bonuses, profit-sharing, etc.)

• 📈 Capital-forming benefits

• 🌴 30 days holiday

• 👍 Company pension plan

• 🚑 Sick pay subsidy

• 🌤Company health management (regular prevention programmes, social counselling, company integration management)

• 🌈 Care for Life / Sabbatical

• 🕓 Flexible working hours with partial home office option / Flexible working time models

• 🔎 Personal development opportunities (e-learning, training, mentoring, use of expert network)

• 🎾 Discount through employee benefits (employee benefits portal, Egym Wellpass, hire or purchase of a car, bicycle leasing, subsidised „Deutschlandticket“)

• 🥗 Staff canteen and car park

Your main tasks and activities:

Tasks:

• Advising and supporting users in the application and mastery of quality skills and methods based on the ArianeGroup process landscape (CMS)

• Ensuring consistency of quality processes, quality trainings and CMS documentation

• Mapping the needs of quality competences for quality and non-quality jobs

• Coordinating the quality learning solutions inclusive e-learning

• Chairing of failure investigation working groups

Activities:

Quality Learning Solution Management (Quality Trainings)

• Manage and permanently update a list of all quality trainings available (content, languages, type of training) and a list of all quality trainers

• Define training strategy and validate new training solutions (global objectives and content, training developer subcontractors) and manage their implementation

• Conduct quality trainings as trainer (e.g. quality newcomer training, job audits, 8D)

• Be the problem-solving methods referent in ArianeGroup GmbH (e.g.: 8D referent, animate and support the ArianeGroup 8D Pilot network, support the 8D tracking, ...)

• Be the human factors referent within ArianeGroup GmbH

• Support the deployment of APQP within ArianeGroup GmbH

• Assure the qualification of the trainers and coach the trainers

• Make the quality trainings available on relevant retention systems, keep them updated and monitor costs

CMS

• Exchange with the continuous improvement leader and the process piloting teams for quality and trainings processes on the process referential and performance

• Strengthen the use of collaborative tools (Confluence, Jira, SharePoint, Digital SQCDPI)

• Support action tracking from audits and certification for any kind of transversal, CMS process-related actions

• Promote and make known the CMS Directives “Quality Policy” and “Quality Manual”

Transversal

• Promote the quality fundamentals and human factors (Dirty Dozen) prevention

• Conduct Local Process Review upon request

• Be the guide and focal point for site BRE for EN 9100 certification external audits

• Point of contact for quality staff in AGG for all quality topics

• Maintain the ArianeGroup quality toolbox (tools, methodologies, best practices) in cooperation with improvement teams

• Contribute to quality communication for own perimeter

• Contribute to quality KPI achievement

• Deploy the quality fundamentals and promote quality mindset and risk-based thinking

Governance

• Job attached to “CMS and Quality-Tools”

• Member of the company-wide ArianeGroup quality networks

• Direct reporting to Head of “Central Quality”

• Status and decisions are shared periodically with representatives from other directorates in the frame of existing routines

You have the following qualifications:

• Relevant Bachelor’s or Master’s degree

• Good knowledge of collaborative tools and quality tools (EN9100, ECSS, 8D problem solving, risk management, PFMEA, DFMEA, ...)

• Ability to run risk-based approaches and root causes analyses

• Audit experience would be an asset

• Oral communication skills for high stake contents in front of high-level audiences

• Strong collaborative mindset with team membership in an intercultural environment, rigor, capacity to analyze and synthetize

• Significant personal initiative and tenacity

• Strong interpersonal skills

• Language skills: German native-level (written, verbal), fluency in English, basics in French would be an asset

Are you interested?

Then we look forward to receiving your application, including CV, cover letter and references, via the application button.

Few more words about our site of Bremen

This site, located on the outskirts of the Hanseatic city of Bremen in north-west Germany, has specialised in the development and manufacture of the upper stage of the Ariane launchers since the start of the programme. Its experts are responsible for the design, development and final integration of the Ariane 6 upper stage. They are also developing the Astris Kick Stage, an additional upper stage powered by the future reignitable bi-propellant engine called Berta, which will further enhance Ariane 6’s versatility. The Bremen site also produces metal tanks for the orbital propulsion systems.

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