Production Manager (M/F)

APAVEGironde, Seine-Saint-DenisEURESpublished 06/11/2026
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Job Description:

Develop your skills within a human and dynamic team, contribute to exciting missions aimed at preventing and controlling risks—does that appeal to you?

Apave is looking for an Aeronautical Quality, Production, and Maintenance Manager (M/F), future Aeronautical Inspector for Production organizations on a permanent contract (CDI) for OSAC, a subsidiary of the Apave Group, and the exclusive delegate of the French civil aviation authority for the control of all activities related to the production, maintenance, and operation of aircraft.

Within the OSAC Operations Department, the Production pole (DOPM) is in charge of industrial players in the field of aeronautical production, in France and abroad.

The Aeronautical Inspector for Production organizations joins a team in charge of the regulatory surveillance of production approvals (Part 21) and maintenance approvals (Part 145) for manufacturers of aircraft, products, parts, and equipment.

Concretely, what will your daily life consist of?

After your integration process, you will be required to carry out several missions:

  • Be the Surveillance Manager for the organizations under your responsibility: Management of organizations having production and maintenance approvals for aeronautical manufacturers.
  • Be the focal point for the industrial players under your responsibility.
  • Carrying out surveillance audit schedules and planned audits, following up on notified non-conformities (validation of root cause analyses, action plans, and evidence of implementation).
  • Evaluating the frameworks (manuals and associated procedures) of approved organizations: Part 21G and Part 145.
  • Monitoring modification projects for the various industrial players under your responsibility, until their approval: change of management personnel, new sites, new product lines, new processes.
  • Supporting industrial players in taking into account new regulatory requirements and the implementation of these requirements.

Profile Description:

Let's talk about you!

First, your background:

  • Higher education (Bac + 3 to 5) in the aeronautical field (system quality, mechanics, structure, avionics, electronics, maintenance, production, etc.).
  • You have been working for at least 5 years in the aeronautical environment: in production, maintenance, as a project/program manager, in a technical office, in a methods office, within subcontractors/suppliers, or in the quality department.

Next, your skills and personal qualities:

  • You have a good knowledge of the structure of an aeronautical company and its various departments.
  • You have knowledge of Part 21G and Part 145 aeronautical regulations or their military equivalents (EMAR/FRA).
  • You have (ideally) experience as a quality auditor.
  • Having been trained on an aircraft Gen Fam would be a plus.
  • You have an English level equivalent to a TOEIC score of +785.
  • You master office tools (Office) and know how to adapt to the use of various monitoring and professional software.
  • You have good writing, interpersonal, and communication skills.
  • You know how to organize your schedule and work autonomously.
  • You are dynamic and demonstrate good analytical and synthesis skills.
  • You are mobile for travel within the region, and occasionally throughout France.

Does this description match your profile? We are meant to understand each other!

Choose us!

By joining Apave, you are joining more than a group: you are taking part in a story where the strength of the collective is a reality, where the notion of support is expressed daily, so that everyone naturally finds their place.

Because at Apave, we consider our differences as a wealth that we put to use every day for missions with high social utility.

Joining us means:

  • Taking pleasure in work and developing your career. We offer you a diversity of missions far from routine, a complete training program throughout your career, and internal mobility possibilities within the Group.
  • A company committed to your work-life balance: Right to disconnect.
  • Benefiting from advantages: 13th month, teleworking, RTT, Restaurant Vouchers, mutual insurance & contingency, profit-sharing & incentive agreements, employee shareholding, CSE benefits.

From now on, how does it work?

  1. Let us know. Apply.
  2. Have you piqued our curiosity? We will contact you for a first exchange.
  3. Do we want to continue together? Operational technical and HR interviews await you.
  4. Welcome! Our collaboration is about to begin, looking forward to meeting you LI-DL1