Northwest Aerospace Technologies (“NAT”), a Safran Company, is the only EASA DOA Certified aircraft interior reconfiguration group in the United States. Focusing on commercial and military aircrafts, NAT provides first class services in design, engineering, quality, certification, and manufacturing
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Proposal Engineering Manager
Job Description:

Northwest Aerospace Technologies (“NAT”), a Safran Company, is the only EASA DOA Certified aircraft interior reconfiguration group in the United States. Focusing on commercial and military aircrafts, NAT provides first class services in design, engineering, quality, certification, and manufacturing for a variety of Blue Chip customers.

Summary:
Perform initial review of proposals provided from Marketing and determine the path forward while prioritizing the effort to completion of each proposal, meeting the date defined by marketing. Provide work assignments to proposal engineers and define any resources needed in maintaining schedule for completion.

This position contributes to our vision by:
•The Proposal Engineering Manager is responsible for managing the performance of the Proposal Engineers assigned to him/her in completing the below tasks as well as participating in completing the below tasks themselves in support of proposal completion:
•Develop technical proposal templates, Kitting list templates, Assumption Templates, etc. to reduce cycle time in proposal development.
•Develop high quality proposals to keep existing NAT engineering resources fully engaged in work and grow the engineering resource team to have additional capacity.
•Early engagement with sales team to understand enquiry/RFQ properly to develop and design a suitable solution.
•Participate in official handover by consolidating all documentation in a timely and accurate manner as per the document management standard.
•Develop the initial NRE and Kit definition.
•Develop accurate and timely estimates which include scope, material and labor efforts by skilled discipline.
•Coordination with all applicable groups (Tech Pubs, Stress, Cert, Flammability, etc.).
•After technical solution definition, develop cost effective estimates and identify explicit proposal inclusions to be prepared within required time lines.
•Develop quality estimates for final Kit pricing.
•Prepare and develop the Kit List.
•Writing of the Technical Proposal.
•Deliver completed proposal package to Marketing by due date.
•Regular review and submission of estimates based on approved change requests.
•Maintain product knowledge and technical skills to current standards and portfolio.
•Look for opportunities to improve as-is process to increase efficiency, simplicity, and margin.
•Understand and promote all health, safety and environmental legal and regulatory requirements including company policies and standards. Lead by example, enforce and sustain a strong safety culture and compliance driven practices in the work environment.
Job Requirements:

At Safran Cabin, 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.

We seek service-oriented team players with strong interpersonal skills and a positive attitude, adaptable to our innovative and evolving environment.

Across all team members, we are looking for the following attributes:
•Team oriented
•Process focused
•Open & honest communication
•Quality minded
•Ability to persevere and honor commitments
•Recognizes success
•Executes with urgency
•Creates solutions
•Customer focused in everything we do

Job Requirements:
•Bachelor's Degree, preferably in a field that offers an opportunity to gain a well-rounded engineering background. Additional training in leadership, management, business administration, program management and risk management is preferred.
•12+ years of broad technical experience, with at least 7 years being in the aerospace industry and 2+ years of proposal management/development is preferred.
•Engineering background and/or technical aptitude to understand and communicate technical subject matter
•Broad familiarity of Boeing and/or Airbus aircraft
•Broad understanding of FAA/EASA certification process

Skills/Abilities
•Excellent communication skills and the ability to establish and foster relationships between various internal customers
•Strong numerical aptitude
•Demonstrate ability to translate technical solutions into detailed cost elements
•Demonstrate proficiency with Excel
•Demonstrate problem solving and conflict resolution skills
•Strong interpersonal skills and ability to effectively interact with all levels of internal customers
•Comfortable working with all levels of an organization
•Build relationships/teamwork/trust, foster open communication, inspire and empower employees, shape strategy/think globally, use sound judgment, drive timely execution with quality, and be a strong leader.

This description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by an employee within this position. The actual duties, responsibilities and qualifications may vary based on assignment or group.
Company Details
Safran
2, Boulevard du General Martial Valin
Paris, Ile-De-France France, International 75724 International
www.safran-group.com
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Everett, Washington, United States
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Company Details
Safran
2, Boulevard du General Martial Valin
Paris, Ile-De-France France, International 75724 International
www.safran-group.com
957 Open Jobs Available
Safran is a world leader in security. The company employs more than 8,600 people in 55 countries and in 2014 generated sales of more than 1.5 billion euros. Morpho's unique expertise lies in its ability to provide security solutions for the following...

Benefits:
TBD

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