Jobs at Elevate Aircraft Seating

The EH&S Manager oversees environmental, health, and safety compliance at an aircraft seating manufacturing site. Responsibilities include regulatory compliance, OSHA reporting, hazardous waste management, stormwater planning, emergency preparedness, injury response, incident investigations, safety audits, PPE requirements, employee training, security access management, and safety KPI reporting. The role serves as the site interface with regulatory agencies and leads initiatives to maintain a safe, secure, and compliant workplace.

The Quality Engineer monitors quality metrics, analyzes defects and trends, leads root-cause investigations, and implements corrective and preventive actions. Responsibilities include developing inspection plans, conducting First Article Inspections, supporting supplier and customer quality issues, maintaining AS9100 quality systems, supporting audits, managing nonconformances and change control, and driving continuous improvement using SPC, FMEA, Six Sigma, Kaizen, A3, and related methods.

Coordinates and expedites parts, materials, and backorders throughout the aircraft-seat manufacturing process. Tracks shortages, inventory, lot traceability, rework, scrap, and replacement orders; collaborates with Purchasing, Planning, Production, Quality, and Engineering to resolve material issues. Supports packaging and shipping documentation, distributes parts between the warehouse and production floor, and maintains a safe, compliant work environment.

Leads biweekly and off-cycle payroll processing, payroll accounting, reconciliations, accruals, reporting, tax compliance, and year-end activities. Coordinates with ADP, government agencies, Human Resources, Accounting, supervisors, and employees to resolve complex payroll issues. Provides functional guidance, reviews payroll work, maintains internal controls, supports audits, and improves payroll processes and systems. The role is on-site in Huntington Beach and reports to the Accounting Controller.

Designs and improves aerospace manufacturing production lines using lean manufacturing, takt-time analysis, time studies, line balancing, facility layouts, and continuous improvement. Leads cross-functional initiatives, develops KPIs and standard work, improves material conveyance and ergonomics, mentors teams on lean concepts, and resolves process variability to enhance efficiency, quality, safety, and cost effectiveness.

Leads quality assurance and quality control across two aerospace manufacturing facilities. Oversees quality systems, AS9100 and FAA/EASA compliance, audits, inspections, supplier quality, nonconformance and corrective actions, customer requirements, quality metrics, and continuous improvement. Manages quality personnel, supports product introductions and manufacturing transfers, maintains customer certifications, and advises executive leadership on quality, compliance, operational risk, and customer satisfaction.

Develops and maintains manufacturing bills of materials, digital work instructions, process plans, and configuration-controlled documentation. Translates engineering data into manufacturing-ready information, processes engineering changes, supports build sequencing, and ensures quality and traceability compliance. Collaborates with Engineering, Planning, Production, and Quality teams to improve manufacturing processes, data integrity, standardization, and operational efficiency. Serves as a subject matter resource for manufacturing documentation and provides internal guidance and training.

Administer, govern, optimize, and support CATIA and related engineering systems. Establish CAD standards, configuration practices, workflows, automation tools, and data-quality processes. Provide advanced user support, training, troubleshooting, and cross-functional coordination with engineering, IT, PLM, manufacturing, and certification teams. Lead continuous-improvement initiatives that enhance system performance, engineering productivity, standardization, and adoption across global product-development programs.

The Cost Accountant analyzes manufacturing and production costs, maintains standard costs, posts inventory and work-in-progress journal entries, reconciles accounts, and prepares monthly reporting. The role explains margin variances, supports forecasting and annual planning, maintains cost and inventory KPI data, recommends cost-effective solutions, and assists with audits. It requires collaboration with management and cross-functional teams while ensuring financial accuracy, compliance, and confidentiality.

Serve as senior HR leader for Huntington Beach operations, partnering with business leaders to drive employee relations, workforce planning, engagement, compliance, talent management, leadership coaching, HR operations, and team development to support organizational growth and operational success.

Provide on-site manufacturing engineering support for serial production: troubleshoot and resolve line issues, develop tooling and fixtures, apply Lean methods, optimize layouts with AutoCAD, support NPI transitions, perform time studies, train operators, and drive continuous improvement to meet aerospace quality and production requirements.

Develop and execute certification programs to demonstrate compliance with regulatory and OEM requirements. Create test plans/reports, review prototypes, oversee test article builds, track deliverables, interface with airlines/OEMs/FAA/suppliers, and serve as subject matter expert on flammability, dynamic/static testing, design compliance, and aircraft installation.

Drive supplier quality improvement through audits, APQP, root cause analysis and corrective actions. Perform on-site supplier visits, support new product launches, define process capability with engineering, report KPIs, lead audits, and ensure supplier conformance to specifications and safety standards.