Join Airbus Operations SAS as a Quality Customer Line Manager in Toulouse, France. In this permanent, full-time leadership role, you will drive operational quality performance, lead a quality team, and act as a crucial interface across production and engineering to ensure delivery compliance and uncompromising safety.
Requirements
Significant experience in a production or industrial environment (FAL, manufacturing plant).
Proven team management skills and expertise in operational quality processes.
Solid knowledge of project management.
Native or fluent French, and intermediate professional English.
Flexibility for shift work and rotating weekend schedules.
No specific university degree is explicitly required.
Skills & Responsibilities
Operational quality management: Monitor team performance, enforce quality processes and manufacturing instructions, and manage non-quality action plans.
Project management: Apply solid knowledge of project management principles to drive change and ensure assembly flow.
Team leadership: Drive, motivate, and support the professional growth of your quality team while fostering strong team cohesion.
Communication: Act as a central interface between Production, Engineering, Programs, and Suppliers to resolve complex non-conformities.
Potential transition routes: People from production supervisor, manufacturing engineer, or quality control roles may bring industrial process knowledge and team leadership skills, alongside meeting mandatory language and shift flexibility requirements.
Job description
Job Description:
Airbus Commercial Aircraft is looking for a Quality Customer Line Manager (f/m) to join our Customer Line / Quality Department based in Toulouse, France.
You will be part of a team responsible for driving operational Quality performance for your assigned aircraft or zone. Working within the Customer Line, you will act as the central interface between Production, Engineering, Programs, and Suppliers to resolve complex non-conformities , ensuring smooth assembly flow and leading your team to meet safety, quality, cost, and delivery targets.
Your working environment:
Global capital of aeronautics and European capital for space research, Toulouse is a dynamic city in the southwest of France served by an international airport. Ideally located between the Mediterranean sea and the Atlantic ocean and close to the Pyrenees mountains, it offers 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 employee stock purchase plan on a voluntary basis.
Work / Life Balance: Extra days-off for special occasions, holiday transfer option, a Staff council offering many social, cultural and sport activities and other services.
Wellbeing / Health: Complementary health insurance coverage (disability, invalidity, death). Depending on the site: health services center, concierge services, gym, carpooling application.
Individual development: Great upskilling opportunities and development prospects with unlimited access to +10.000 e-learning courses to develop your employability, certifications, expert career path, accelerated development programmes, 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:
Lead and empower the team: Drive, motivate, and support the professional growth of your Quality team while fostering strong team cohesion, a good social climate, and strict safety compliance.
Cross-functional interface: Maintain close proximity and alignment with Production teams (notably Post Operational Leaders), Engineering, Programs, and Suppliers.
Operational Quality management: Monitor team performance, enforce quality processes and manufacturing instructions, and manage non-quality action plans.
Drive continuous improvement: Actively support continuous improvement initiatives and guarantee the implementation of the new organization via the QMT project.
Ensure delivery compliance: Guarantee on-time aircraft delivery for your perimeter while upholding uncompromising safety, quality, and cost targets.
Your boarding pass:
Experience & Management: Significant experience in a production or industrial environment (FAL, manufacturing plant) with proven team management skills.
Technical & Project Skills: Solid knowledge of project management and strong expertise in operational quality processes.
Operational Abilities: Ability to prioritize, make swift decisions in a dynamic environment, drive change, with strong analytical skills and rigor.
Languages: Native or fluent French, and intermediate professional English (aeronautical technical English preferred).
Work schedule: Flexibility for shift work and rotating weekend schedules (rotating weekend shifts / occasional weekend cover).
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Company: Airbus Operations SAS
Employment Type: Permanent ------- Classe Emploi (France): Classe F11
Experience Level: Professional
Job Family: Leadership
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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.
