Role: Safety and Airworthiness Specialist

Location: Salisbury

Duration: 12 Months

Pay Rate: Negotiable

The successful candidate will become part of a large, multidisciplinary SMS team comprising approximately twenty experienced professionals in the deployment and sustainment of the SMS within the Defence UK Chinook Programme.

Key Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will lead the SMS within the UK Chinook Programme and will be responsible for ensuring an effective SMS is maintained in this crucial UK MoD programme.

• Lead the Safety Management Systems for the UK Chinook Programme.
• Lead the Safety Risk Management strategy for the Programme to effectively derive hazards and risks.
• Lead the facilitation of Hazard Identification working groups to create, review and mature Bowties.
• Sustain a Positive Safety Culture
• Lead the management of all CH-47 safety occurrence reports and investigations ensuring the quality and completeness of all reports.
• Perform Safety Investigations in response to the triaging of safety reports.
• Interface with both internal and external key stakeholders in the processing and managing safety reports and issues.
• Lead Safety Promotion activities in support of the Programme.
• Manage the SMS meetings schedule for the Programme ensuring effective audit trail and management of actions and deadlines.
• Creation and maintenance of SMS documentation relating to the Chinook Programme SMS.
• Establish and maintain SMS interface with the MoD Air Safety Teams and key Suppliers to the Programme.
• Manage the safety records in the Centrik tools relevant to the CH-47 Programme and SMS doctrine.
• Travel within the UK is expected.

Essential competencies, experience and qualities.

• Formal Safety Management Systems training and experience and significant experience in aviation maintenance and/ or engineering.

• Training in Safety Risk Management and experience in utilising Bowtie methodology.
• Experience and understanding of military aviation regulations and their application.
• Qualified Safety Investigator with experience in conducting and leading safety investigations over several years.
• A sound understanding of Just Culture principles and their application.
• Experience in managing large volumes of safety reports using military or civil reporting tools and processes.
• Experience in working across multiple functions and levels to build relationships and understanding to build trust and a positive safety culture.
• The candidate should possess strong communication and organisational skills and demonstrate the ability to use common IT and project management concepts/tools.
• The role will have significant UK MoD customers, suppliers and wider interfaces and, therefore, a person who possesses good interpersonal skills balanced with diplomacy and resolve is essential.

Desirable competencies

• Qualified and experienced Human Factors trainer.
• Experience using the MoD's ASIMS tool for in-service occurrence monitoring and trending or a civil equivalent system.
• Experience in data analytics.