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Company :

Safran Water and Waste Systems

Job field : Purchasing

Location : Carson , California , United States

Contract type : Permanent

Contract duration : Full-time

Required degree : Bachelor's Degree

Required experience : More than 5 years

Professional status : Employees / Staff

Spoken language(s) :

English Fluent

Salary range : $66,560 - $85,770

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Job Description

Are you passionate about technology or aviation? Come invent the solutions of tomorrow in the aerospace and defense industry, with an international group where innovation, teamwork and continuing, daily education are fundamental values. 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.

Responsible for intelligent and active management of assigned suppliers. Drive timely resolution of all business, delivery, and quality issues with associated accounts to ensure customer deliveries are met. Negotiate pricing and terms and conditions of ongoing production orders to ensure quality, delivery, and specification requirements are met at the lowest possible cost. Monitor and actively manage Supplier performance, request and drive corrective action when required. Expedite (or de-expedite) material orders to ensure timely and economical completion of customer requirements, while protecting inventory levels. Support supplier transitions between existing suppliers as necessary, taking into account supplier price, capability, capacity, performance, and risk. Communicate and enforce applicable terms and conditions, contractual clauses, quality clauses, and technical specifications to Suppliers. Support and communicate supplier status and performance to Operations as required.

Complementary Description

Actively monitor and manage supplier delivery and quality performance, take appropriate action for Supplier Performance Improvement Plans when Supplier falls below acceptable thresholds. Become intimately familiar with any quality or delivery issues affecting supplier performance, and perform a leadership role driving cross-functional teams as necessary for timely and intelligent resolution of issues.

Monitor open orders and shortage lists and expedite Supplier deliveries to meet Customer/MRP demand. Report concise detailed status to all affected parties.

Monitor MRP system for PO Proposals, and places timely, intelligent, well planned production PO's that ensure regular delivery while meeting target inventory levels.

Negotiate price and other contractual terms (quantity, delivery, quality, freight routings) to minimize overall cost of procured items to ZWWS.

Initiate and manage problem free sourcing of existing parts to other approved Suppliers if present Supplier is noncompetitive, or incapable of supporting requirements.

Constructively Interface with all necessary internal departments (Operations, Engineering, Finance, Quality, Receiving, Programs, etc.) to resolve Supplier related issues.

Submit Purchase Orders and coordinate administrative changes for all reschedules and/or drawing or technical changes.

Interpret drawings and drawing change notice requirements, effectivity date implications, engineering change requests and take appropriate action.

Job Requirements

A. Ability to organize and manage meetings to resolve various issues including specifications, engineering requirements, and risk mitigation.

B. Experience with purchasing a wide range of products in the Aerospace Industry, demonstrating knowledge of industry specific procurement requirements.

C. Understanding of Supply Chain Management operational concepts surrounding purchasing, logistics, incoming product inspection and inventory control

D. Demonstrates understanding of MRP systems to analyze and react to procurement demand and execute and manage purchase orders.

E. General technical knowledge of commodities to be managed, including familiarity of key technical parameters and ability to understand and navigate through supporting technical documentation, such as drawings or specifications.

F. Practiced and effective negotiation skills.

G. Ability to create and present models or summarized data for decision making (using standard office suite of products (Excel, Word, PowerPoint))

H. Comprehension of general Aerospace Quality Management System requirements

Safran's Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) goes beyond our facility walls. We value and support the communities where we live and work. One of Safran's values and CSR pillar is Corporate Citizenship that helps drive economic, social and cultural progress by sharing our gifts with those around us.

• 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 include health care (medical, dental and vision), life insurance, 401(k) savings plans with company match, paid time off, Safran Perks with BenefitHub – Employee Discounts & Rewards Marketplace for consumer products/services and more!

• Management roles may be eligible for a bonus in accordance with the terms of the applicable incentive plan.

At Safran, diversity & inclusion is a source of richness that adds quality of life, performance, and innovation. We welcome diverse contributions and provide equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/gender expression, marital status, pregnancy, age, national origin, ancestry, disability/medical condition, military or veteran status, citizenship status, genetic characteristics or information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, and local laws.

The expected salary range for this position is between $66,560 - $85,770 USD. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, education, and other factors permitted by law.

Specificity of the job

Local travel is expected. Travel may be required for some international suppliers & sourcing strategies develop.

83,000

employees worldwide

27

Number of countries where Safran is located

35

business area families

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Safran is an Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.