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Boeing Defence UK is offering an opportunity to join their dynamic Safety Management System (SMS) team dedicated to ensuring the safety of our Products and Services. The successful candidate will become part of a large, multidisciplinary SMS team comprising approximately 20 experienced professionals in the deployment and sustainment of the SMS within the Boeing Defence UK Chinook Programme.
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.
The role has the following key responsibilities:
Lead the Safety Management Systems for the Boeing 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 Chinook 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. Delivery of SMS training as required to support compliance with regulation and BDUK procedures.
Travel within the UK is expected and some overseas travel may be required.
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, supplier and wider Boeing 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.
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