Supplier Quality Specialist (f/m) Spécialiste Qualité Fournisseur (f/h)
// Role Summary
Airbus seeks a Supplier Quality Specialist in Toulouse, France, to ensure the timely and quality delivery of aircraft components by managing a portfolio of detail parts suppliers.
// Key Responsibilities
- Develop and deploy APQP deliverables with suppliers.
- Conduct product and QMS audits against industry standards.
- Drive root cause analysis for non-conformities using 8D and 9S.
- Analyze supplier performance and implement improvement plans.
- Define and manage supplier surveillance and risk mitigation.
- Requires advanced English and negotiation-level French.
// Role Specification
Supplier Quality Specialist (f/m)
Airbus Commercial Aircraft is looking for a Supplier Quality Specialist to join our POMDB department based in Toulouse, France. You will be part of a team developing Detail Parts operational performance. As part of the Detail Parts Supply Team, you will be involved in a portfolio of around 15 hard metals machining, forming, and turning suppliers, aiming at securing Aircraft deliveries on time and with the required quality.
Your Working Environment:
Toulouse, the global capital of aeronautics and European capital for space research, is a dynamic city in the southwest of France. It is ideally located between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, and close to the Pyrenees mountains, offering plenty of options for outdoor activities.
How We Care For You:
- Financial Rewards: Attractive salary, agreements on success and profit sharing schemes, employee savings plan abounded by Airbus, and an employee stock purchase plan on a voluntary basis.
- Work/Life Balance: Extra days-off for special occasions, holiday transfer option, and a Staff council offering many social, cultural, and sport activities.
- Wellbeing/Health: Complementary health insurance coverage (disability, invalidity, death). Depending on the site, we offer health services, concierge services, a gym, and a carpooling application.
- Individual Development: Great upskilling opportunities and development prospects with unlimited access to over 10,000 e-learning courses, certifications, expert career paths, accelerated development programmes, and national and international mobility.
At Airbus, we support you to work, connect, and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.
Your Challenges:
- Deploy APQP deliverables (FMEA, Key Characteristics, Control Plans, MSA, SPC) with suppliers to secure convergence to industrial maturity targets.
- Perform product and Quality Management System (QMS) audits to evaluate compliance against EN9100, EASA, and Airbus standard requirements.
- Drive root cause analysis and resolution of non-conformities using 8D and 9S methodologies to eradicate supplier quality events.
- Analyze supplier performance KPIs and operational quality data to implement derisking, improvement, and recovery plans.
- Define and follow up on the supplier surveillance plan, identifying industrial risks and executing concrete mitigation action plans.
Your Boarding Pass:
- Professional experience in Supply Chain & Quality, Quality, Manufacturing Engineering, or Engineering.
- Technical proficiency in APQP methods (FMEA, Control Plan, MSA, SPC, Cp/Cpk).
- Proven experience as a Product or QMS Auditor/Assessor (EN9100, EASA regulations).
- Practical mastery of structured problem-solving methodologies (8D, PPS) and Lean tools (VSM, process improvement).
- English at an advanced level; French at a negotiation level.
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