Safety Manager - Aviation

Safety Manager - Aviation

Permanent

Full Time Mon – Fri

Established in 2015 and building on more than 60 years of engineering excellence, 2Excel Engineering is a Maintenance and Repair Organisation (MRO) based in Hampshire, delivering service-orientated narrow body Boeing and Airbus maintenance to Operators and Owners, Leasing Companies and Governments.

We are seeking a Safety Manager - Aviation to join our team. Reporting to the Accountable Manager, the Safety Manager is the focal point for running, developing, and improving the Company’s mature Safety Management System. Joining a company with a mature, approved SMS system you will be managing a team of Safety Officers and Representatives across the business, you will drive their maintenance of risk registers; extract insight from performance and third-party data; recommend and generate Safety Activities, communicating effectively internally and externally and representing the Company during Authority Audits and Inspections.

Responsibilities:

• Provide Line Management to the and Health and Safety Officer and Safety Investigator;
• Manage the Safety Management System;
• Provide regular briefings to the Accountable Manager and Board;
• Manage and run regular Safety Action Group and Safety Review Board meetings on behalf of the Accountable Manager;
• Managing occurrence classification, investigation, reporting and the implementation of resultant risk mitigation
• Oversight of the evaluation of safety-related hazards, risks and risk mitigations, reducing our risk to as low as reasonably practical;
• Lead the SMS Representatives and champion our Safety Culture;
• Maintain and develop company manuals and policy to achieve the standards of safety set out by the business.
• Support, mentor and facilitate all of our Safety Activities;
• Support the strategic development of our Safety Policy and associated business processes, interfacing with functional business areas where appropriate;
• Understand and implement all relevant functional safety standards, including keeping up to date with the latest best practice and changes to relevant safety legislation and standards;
• Building relationships with stakeholders at all levels, identifying education and training needs and driving the implementation of changes;
• Monitoring and evaluating safety performance indicators for line of business and projects in order to produce insightful management information and safety action plans;

Skills and Experience:

Essential:

• Demonstrable understanding and experience of aviation, preferably in maintenance;
• Demonstrable understanding of, and skills in, aviation-related safety management;
• Demonstrably capable IT skills;
• Experienced at complex risk assessment and management;
• Experience of leading or taking part in occurrence investigations;
• Good written and verbal communicator with experience of persuading and influencing Company senior management and the Regulators (CAA and EASA);
• A strong analytical approach;
• Comfortable with predicting a range of outcomes and justifying the actions necessary to achieve them.

Desirable:

• Experience of using Centrik software;
• Recognised safety management qualification;
• Experience in Performance Based Oversight;
• Previous experience and responsibility for aviation safety in a Part 145 organisation;
• Proven experience of working with Safety policies and processes covering functional safety;
• Experience of leading or taking part in External/Internal Safety Audits;
• Experience of building effective close working relationships both internal and externally to influence safety culture and challenge ways of working.

We offer:

• 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays
• Free parking
• Pension scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Excellent paid training and development opportunities
• Occupational health scheme
• Company events and social activities
• Sick pay
• Health Cash Plan
• Cycle to work

2Excel is committed to promoting equitable treatment, encouraging diversity and embracing inclusion in our recruitment processes and among our workforce. We are proud to be recognised as a Disability Confident Employer.