Industrial Quality Manager M/F
About the company
At Expliseat, we are reinventing the way people travel. Since 2012, our patented ultralight aircraft seats have been lightening aircraft, reducing fuel consumption, and limiting CO₂ emissions. With more than 10,000 seats already in flight all around the world, we are the leader in ultralight seats for regional aviation, and we are accelerating in the short-haul segment.
Our mission? To combine performance, comfort, and positive environmental impact.
Join a passionate team where innovation, agility, and boldness are at the heart of every project, and contribute to decarbonizing the mobility of tomorrow ✈️.
Your tasks
Your mission at Expliseat Reporting to the Plant Director, you are the guarantor of the quality of our products and our seat manufacturing processes. You play a key role in the structuring and optimization of our operations.
In an industrial environment undergoing significant structuring, you will manage quality on a daily basis while building a robust, high-performing organization focused on continuous improvement.
As such, your main missions are as follows:
- Define and deploy the plant's quality policy, in consistency with aeronautical regulatory requirements, notably Part 21G, customer specifications, and industrial performance objectives.
- Manage and develop your team, composed of a specialized 3D scan technician and 5 to 10 quality operators depending on activity, by organizing priorities, developing skills, and fostering engagement from everyone.
- Guarantee the compliance of products and manufacturing processes by mastering controls, traceability, non-conformity processing, and the implementation of corrective and preventive actions.
- Structure and optimize the quality system by deploying appropriate tools and methods: internal and external audits, root cause analysis, indicator monitoring, and continuous improvement.
- Be present on the ground, close to the production teams, to anticipate risks, resolve quality issues, and develop a quality culture shared by all.
- Support the industrialization of new projects and the improvement of existing processes, by integrating quality requirements from the earliest phases and securing the ramp-up of activity.
- Represent the plant to customers and competent authorities by preparing for and accompanying audits, visits, and inspections, and by ensuring the follow-up of complaints and action plans.
- Collaborate with suppliers and industrial partners to guarantee quality control across the entire value chain.
You will also ensure the management of a specialized 3D scan technician and a team of 5 to 10 operators, depending on activity. You know how to organize priorities, support skill development, and guarantee the operational efficiency of your team.
Requirements
Your profile You have 6 to 10 years of experience in an industrial environment, with a focus on quality and indispensable experience in quality control in production. You master the main quality tools and methods: root cause analysis, non-conformity management, AMDEC, control plans, continuous improvement, and audits.
Close to the field, you know how to work with production teams, make pragmatic decisions, and unite people around quality issues. You are capable of structuring and evolving an organization, building processes, and meeting the challenges of a growing industrial environment.
Experience in the aeronautical sector would be a plus, but is not indispensable. The position is open to both engineer profiles and technicians who have moved into quality management roles.
Professional English is mandatory to ensure exchanges with international customers and to participate in audits and technical meetings.
What we offer
Why join us
- Contribute to an industry that is more respectful of the environment
- Join a passionate and agile team, where every idea counts
- Evolve within an innovative, fast-growing company </body>