UK CH-47 Safety Support Official (SMS)

The Safety Support Official will be responsible to the CH-47 Programme Safety Official to support the implementation and sustainment of the BDUK SMS within the UK MoD CH-47 Programme. The individual will be responsible for developing and sustaining a Positive Safety Culture, providing feedback and engagement with the workforce and ensuring safety reporting and investigations are handled in a timely and effective manner.,

• Occurrence Management of relevant CH-47 safety reports.


• Perform Safety Investigations in response to the triaging of safety reports.


• Facilitation of Hazard Working Group to create and mature BowTies.


• Develop and sustain a strong Positive Safety Culture within the programme.


• Perform safety promotion and feedback.


• Delivery of SMS and HF training within the programme as required to support compliance with regulation.


• Creation and maintenance of the SMS documentation


• Maintain SMS interfaces with the MoD and Suppliers.


• Track and monitor safety actions and recommendations.


• Safety communication to management, leadership teams and the workforce.


• Support to 1st, 2nd and 3rd Party audits.


• Maintenance of the Safety Records.
  
  Formal engineering or flying qualification including experience in aircraft operations or aircraft maintenance.


• Experience in conducting safety investigations in aviation.


• Formal Safety Management Systems training and experience.


• Previous military or civil experience in the application of safety policy and SMS requirements in an aviation context.


• Experience in growing and sustaining a Positive Safety Culture.


• Experience in handling safety reports using military or civil reporting tools i.e. ASIMS, Centrik, Q Pulse.


• Develop and use meaningful metrics to evaluate safety status and provide performance visibility.


• Experience in working across multiple functions to create relationships and understanding in order to progress difficult issues.


• Ability to identify help needed and coordinate with the appropriate leaders and team members.


• The candidate should possess strong communication skills, Safety training skills and demonstrate the ability to use common IT and project management concepts/tools.


• The role will have significant UK MoD customer, supplier and wider Boeing interfaces and, therefore, a person who is diplomatic whilst being strong minded is essential.


• The ability to obtain UK Security Clearance


Desirable competencies:

• Qualified and experienced Human Factors trainer/ facilitator.


• Experience in the application of a Just Culture model.


• Experience using the MoD's ASIMS for in-service occurrence monitoring and trending or a civil equivalent system.


• Training in Safety Risk Management and experience in using and facilitating the creation of BowTies.


Export Control Requirements: U.S. Government Export Control Status: This position must meet export control compliance requirements. To meet export control compliance requirements, a "U.S. Person" as defined by 22 C.F.R. §120.15 is required. "U.S. Person" includes U.S. Citizen, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee.

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Boeing Defence UK is offering the opportunity to join their expansive Safety Management System (SMS) team in providing Products and Services Safety. The successful candidate will be joining a large multidisciplinary SMS team of circa 20 experienced members during an exciting time of growth within BDUK.