Sandra CORTE REAL

Experience

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  Air Luxor Airways

  Jan 2003 - Dec 2007

  Quality and Continued Airworthiness Engineer

  - Assuring timely compliance of the airline maintenance program, Airworthiness Directives aswell as the continued airworthiness instructions- In charge of editing the airline Handbook and the internal Functional Procedures- Standardization of internal procedures across the maintenance and engineering sectors- Follow-up non-conformities raised by the ANAC (Portugal Civil Aviation Authority)- Ensuring quality policy compliance for good degree of prevention and permanent improvement: auditplans, auditing, resolving discrepancies and followup corrective actions Managing the maintenance layovers for aircrafts (EASA Part-M subp G)- Ensure the technical support for aircraft maintenance (OPS 1 subpart M and EASA Part-145). Show less

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  Grupo SATA

  Jan 2008 - Dec 2009

  Quality Assurance and Auditor

  - Within the airline maintenance organization, acting as Maintenance Engineer & Lead Auditor- To comply with ANAC (Portugal Civil Aviation Authority) and international airworthinessrequirements- Ensure tracking of non-conformities for process improvement - Managing the acceptance of aircraft major modification in liaison with the engineering division.

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  Aeroconseil

  Jan 2009 - Oct 2012

  Quality System Engineer

  - Prospection of new business development and manage a portfolio of commercial offers- Secondement to the Airbus Customer Services division, on the FHS/TSP (Flight Hours Services / Tailored Support Package) department, driving the quality system activities- Audit the supplier’s quality system; grant the supplier qualification- Review of supplier technical specifications, supplier internal approvals and compliance matrix to ensure regulatory constraints- Manage new products, suppliers and processes and regulatory requirements- To contribute for process improvement methods and setting up KPIs for supplier monitoring- Participate in the maturity assessment of suppliers- Assignment to the Airbus Customer Services division, in the frame of EASA Part-145 and EN9100, leading the Maintenance Organisation Exposition manual MOE for a single certification- Ensuring to meet global aviation authority regulations; performing aviation authorities difference studies- To ensure timely follow-up of discrepancies resulting from the internal and external audits of suppliers- To follow-up quality transversal processes- Managing the harmonization of ways of working across the Airbus sites. Show less

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  OSAC l Aviation & Sécurité

  Nov 2012 - May 2019

  EASA Team Leader

  - To perform the surveillance under EASA Part 21G (POA) and EASA Part 145 (MOA) regulations, auditing the quality system and the global processes with the aim of granting approvals on behalf of EASA in a multi-cultural environment- EASA team member and surveillance as Team Leader for the Airbus POA - Leading industrial audits, making on-site and desktop reviews, including evaluation of production tier direct suppliers- Monitoring and coordination of production approvals to ensure compliance of Aeronautical Regulations and Requirements (EASA) for the continuation of the Production Approval- Management and acceptance of root causes, corrective and preventive actions issued during audits,- Analyzing safety occurrences, handling non-conformities and quality deviations, relevant for airworthiness and safety- To provide guidance of EASA guidelines and international Quality methodologies- Main interface for Airlines and foreign Maintenance Repair Organizations MRO ( Non-EU nations ). Show less

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  ATR

  Jun 2019 - Nov 2019

  Interternal Audit Officer

  - Ensure liasion across the quality serctors to enforce conformity to internal methods and processes- Cascade and deploy the Quality system- Training of internal auditors - Piloting and preparing internal auditing and promoting regulation knowledge- Follow-up and support of the implementation corrective / preventive actions and robust root causes analysis and identifying recurring issues- Acceptance of the internal audit reports- Manage the Quality System Key Performance Indicators- Coordinate with Operations about the audit planning on ATR products and processes to minimise any potential risk, amelioration actions and secure mitigation- Lead a project of the Non conformities harmonization and continous improvement. Show less